Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years coal miners never had to ask that question. With the autocratic John L. Lewis in command, the United Mine Workers of America stood in the vanguard of American labor. Lewis staged epic brawls with Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, and the strikes he called paralyzed the economy, but his union grew strong. The greatest Lewis victory occurred in 1947 when he got the operators to pay 100 on every ton of coal mined to miners' retirement funds and lifelong free medical benefits...
...best deal at that moment, but it is united in its detestation for Taft-Hartley and its respect for a union picket line. Oceana's miners expect to find roving pickets from other parts of the district along the road to the Eastern Associated Coal Corp. mine in nearby Kopperston-and unless police keep the pickets clear of the mine at all times, they will not work. If there is violence, the Oceana miners say, it will come from outsiders; they will not turn against each other...
...cases, the injunction prevented strikes, 14 disputes were settled during the cooling-off period, four disputes continued past the 80 days but without further work stoppages, and nine times strikes continued after the cooling-off period before a settlement was reached. According to Labor Department officials, only the United Mine Workers have ever defied Taft-Hartley injunctions. In 1948 a federal judge fined Union Chief John L. Lewis $20,000 and the union $1.4 million...
...next day there were no slips. The world premiere of John Green's Mine Eyes Have Seen, a huge, jazzy work that might better be called Mine Ears Have Heard, had both thunder and clarity. It got a standing ovation. Said Jaffe with some understatement: "That was a great big body of sound...
...election as President of the United States, I reviewed with lim all the stages that had been completed and submitted a definite peace strategy to him. I don't believe Israel is capable of, or willing to, produce a peace strategy similar to, or even faintly resembling, mine...