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Died. Russ Morgan, 65, pop-music composer and big-band leader in the 1930s and '40s; of a stroke; in Las Vegas. The son of a Pennsylvania coal miner, Morgan played trombone and piano to earn his ticket out of the pits, in 1935 formed his own orchestra featuring the wah-wah sound of muted trombones and such hits as So Tired, and Somebody Else Is Taking My Place...
Bigness Has Its Price. Thomas Jones Woodward, son of a coal miner, had an inauspicious start in his home town of Pontypridd, Wales. Trying to stay out of the mines as a youth, he chose instead to crowbar his way into movies, drink with the boys and fight in the streets. That was a far cry from his younger days when his mother would take him to the women's guild or the grocery store to warble popular songs like Ghost Riders in the Sky. Tom had to answer for every song to the fellows in the back alley...
Witch Hunt. Lewis was born to his job. His father, an immigrant miner from Wales, was blacklisted by his company's management for his role in a bitter, late-19th century strike John L. quit school before he finished the eighth grade, and by age 15 he had followed his father to the pits. In Colorado he mined coal. Then it was copper in Montana, silver in Utah, gold in Arizona. In 1911, Lewis went to work for Samuel Gompers, then president of the American Federation of Labor and the greatest labor tactician of the era. Because he could...
Hats in the Ring. Boyle's, most. serious competition for the union presidency is Elijah Wolford, 43, a miner who has switched to night work so he can spend his days campaigning. "The union," says Wolford, "has moved too far away from its original purpose-to protect the workingman...
...Dumb. Others besides campesinos have experienced this unique presidential abrazo. Tin exports account for 78% of all Bolivia's foreign exchange, and tin miners are thus a potent group that strikes frequently. During one protest against Barrientos in 1967, the President went down into the mines to confront them. An angry miner held out a dynamite stick and, to scare the President, threatened to blow the assemblage higher than Bolivia's Andean Altiplano. Barrientos grabbed the stick, held it out to be lit and called the miner's bluff. Last year Barrientos took charge in the jungle...