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Trapped by circumstances they only dimly understand, the miners take a very simple view of their situation One grizzled old miner put it this way at a meeting of strikers: "I'll tell you something boys, and I'm gonna tell you the truth now. There will be blood coming from the mines--not coal--unless we get a union contract. And if you try to get by my picket line you're gonna smell copper and lead, copper and lead...
...Howell sees it, his only chance of combating this despondency and supporting a strike is inducing the Teamsters to organize the county. Practically every miner in McDowell watched Dave Brinkley's report on Jimmy Hoffa and his union, and to them Hoffa looks like the messiah. "Jimmy could do it," was the general opinion. "He's tough--if we get him in here that will fix things up in short order." Tough men themselves, these miners are convinced Hoffa will understand them and their problem. But a Teamster representative recently studied the situation and reported that it was almost hopeless...
Lower Rates. Automation has increased coal's efficiency vastly, more than doubling the miner's daily output, to 15 tons. Cheaper residual oil has hurt coal but failed to take away all its markets. Atomic energy, coal's glamorous bugaboo, has turned out to be more expensive than expected, and seems no serious threat for the immediate future. And with the use of electricity in the U.S. rising about 7% a year, electric utilities last year used a record 192 million tons of coal's 420-million-ton production. But nothing has helped coal so much...
...Most came from the northern shipbuilding and steelmaking cities of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where the misery of the 1930s is not forgotten. Last week, by contrast with the hunger marches of that era, most arrived by train or bus; some even came by plane. Said a Scottish miner: "We are not hungry men asking for food. We are angry men asking for self-respect." Getting into Politics. They pointed out that though warm weather has boosted employment in homebuilding and heavy construction, the actual total of unemployed (702,000) in Britain was still 250,000 higher than...
...Dark Ages, when copper was needed to arm Europe's growing armies, hundreds of men migrated to the copper mountain. At the pithead sprang up the village of Falun, Sweden's first industrial center, where the company still has its headquarters. At first each miner dug and smelted the ore himself, but by 1347 King Magnus Eriksson had granted a charter setting up a corporation of master miners. The largest copper supplier in medieval Europe, Kopparberg made Sweden a major political power; its profits financed King Gustavus Adolphus' part in the Thirty Years War (1618-48), which...