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will go to any length-and depth-for a good picture, a fact she proved during a foray into Pennsylvania coal country in search of women miners. Joining a 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift near Johnstown, Bergen rode 800 ft. into the earth for a work session with her subjects. Her enterprise was not universally approved. "When I returned the next day, the foreman met me at the entrance and said the men had threatened to strike if I went back down," said Candice. "The men feel that their decades in the mines have been obliterated by the media...
...pictured with the big coal shovel [Aug. 23] is not a Kentucky strip miner, as you report...
...summer as an amateur gold miner in the High Sierras of Northern California produced more muscles, more sober thoughts and a net profit of 80?. The next stop on his pilgrimage, college, was less of an ordeal. Still, despite his being a leading campus socialist at the University of Minnesota-a protester against the ROTC, a spark of the Jacobin Club and a charter member of the "first American student movement"-Sevareid could write a dozen years later: "I remember only struggle . . . emotional exhaustion...
Heavy Hand. Cedar Coal, a unit of American Electric Power Co., then got a federal court to issue an injunction against the strike. When the miners ignored it, the judge fined the local $50,000, which went unpaid. At that point, miners elsewhere started to take notice. To them, the case was just another in a series in which the heavy hand of the Federal Government patted the companies and slapped the union. "When that judge gets out of the coal business, that's when we go back to work," vowed a Cabin Creek miner, and his fellows...
...many Laborites regard Jenkins as a cultural snob with no taste for the rough give and take of either domestic or international politics. The son of a Welsh coal miner who became parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Jenkins was a student at Oxford's Balliol College, where he took first honors in politics, philosophy and economics. He also acquired an upper-class "mandarin" accent, excellent French and a taste for claret and opera-none of which are especially valued by the party's old guard...