Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, in the middle of the most important contract talks of the year, the 120,000-member United Mine Workers went out on strike and quickly won one of the fattest settlements in labor history, a 50% raise in wages and benefits over three years. In the light of labor's understandable frustration with both inflation and recession, the increase could well set a new high goal for other unions to shoot for, with grave consequences for the economy and the nation. Last year most unions were accepting wage-and-benefit increases of little more than...
...mine settlement is certain to lift the price of coal-as well as steel, electricity and myriad consumer products-adding further to oppressive living costs, which are now rising at an annual rate of close to 12%. The pact must still be ratified by the entire membership, a new union procedure that will take between eight and ten days and guarantees that the strike will paralyze the mines for at least three weeks. U.M.W. President Arnold Miller has repeatedly stated that his men will not return to the pits before the voting is completed...
Finally, the real reason for their interest in me emerged: my inquisitors began asking endless questions about Roman Catholic Archbishop Helder Camara, a vocal critic of the regime and a friend of mine. They were furious about stories that I had filed to TIME and the Associated Press that they considered favorable to the Recife archbishop and unflattering to the dictatorship. They cursed Dom Helder, claiming that he was a liar when he accused the government of condoning torture. Their tirade was accompanied by more shocks and my screams. Twice during the afternoon they tortured me in front of Luis...
...light at the end of the tunnel in the United Mine Workers contract negotiations went out last week, and the nation was faced with the certainty that a dreaded nationwide coal strike would begin midnight Monday. The key question was how long the 120,000 union miners would stay out. U.M.W. President Arnold R. Miller predicts a strike lasting about two weeks; Interior Department officials figure that the walkout could go on for three weeks -and that underground mines would stay closed for a week after that while federal inspectors check them for safety. Even a short shutdown would damage...
...hint as to why they decided to postpone that. I think, in short, that Moratorium program that looked like a liberal thing and certainly did not look effective at the time, because it didn't get him out--I think it seems to have derailed a plan to mine Haiphong in the fall of '69, and postponed it for what turned out to be two and a half years. That probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives in North Vietnam and probably--speculation here, but I think a good bet--probably kept us from invading North Vietnam and using nuclear...