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...coal miner's strike which will cut off the country's electricity is imminent if protective legislation for miners is not enforced, Joseph Yablonski II said yesterday at a rally in Cambridge for the West Virginia Black Lung Association...
...Americans may have to live without their air conditioners, and possibly by the light of a single bulb," Yablonski said, "but miners feel that only this kind of action will wake up people to the facts of poor mining conditions. 1970 is the year of the coal miner," he added...
...this country is relying on fewer than 100,000 men to produce the raw resource for the steel and electric power without which the United States wouldn't function for five minutes. When you look at it that way, the rest of us owe a lot to the coal miner. Pretty important man. Couldn't get along without...
...chance in 12 of being killed in an accident, at least one chance in five of suffering lung disease. He also can figure on suffering three or four injuries severe enough to keep him off the job. An airplane pilot can get insurance at standard rates; a coal miner cannot...
...fire and explosion and roof falls kill fewer men than the slow stifling black lung disease-coal workers' pneumoconiosis, in proper medical terminology. "Black lung" is just that: a lung so clogged with the steady accumulation of coal particles that it no longer functions. When both of a miner's lungs are coal-black and completely clogged, they stop functioning, and he dies. The process, being cumulative, is slow and agonizing. The U. S. Public Health Service estimates that 125,000 miners-active and retired-are afflicted with black lung: and admits that the figure may be conservative, because reports...