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...embarrassing picket was James Sweeny, 59, a onetime coal miner and longtime professional organizer who was booted out of his $6,500-a-year job a few weeks ago and into retirement with a $96-a-month pension. At the same time, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. fired, retired or switched to different jobs nearly 100 organizers (out of 218). The A.F.L.-C.I.O. explained the shake-out as a necessary economy measure, but to the jolted organizers and ex-organizers it seemed just a hard-fisted example of old-fashioned capitalistic union-busting. Reason: early in 1957, the organizers organized a little...
Ever since 1955, Cleveland's M. A. Hanna coal and iron company has had its eye on a South American lode that would make any miner sharpen his pick. The property: Brazil's St. John D'el Rey, which Brazilians romantically labeled the "heart of gold within a breast of iron." Spreading over 100 square miles in Minas Gerais state, some 200 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, the D'el Rey mines produced only gold for 120 years-and in recent times some heavy deficits for the company's British owners. What magnetized Hanna...
...keep his kids in line. He had three children?Bill Jr., 8, Evelyn, 9, and Maxine. 1? when his wife Nancy died on Christmas morning of 1940 as the result of an automobile crash. He was far too busy scratching out a marginal living as a Colver. Pa. coal-miner to indulge his family in any subtle systems of discipline. "I used to take the stick a lot to Billy," father Hartack recalls. "I don't believe in letting no kid have his way. He'd do anything I'd tell...
Lady Chattelley's Miner. Here began an affair right out of Lady Chatterley's Lover. "I did not fancy myself as a haggard, rabid, avid randy dowager combing the Riviera for young blood," says Caitlin. Nonetheless, Caitlin, then 39, took an 18-year-old Italian iron miner as her lover. In part, Joseph, with his "attractive grave hardness," was an antidote to Dylan, who had been so finicky that he could pull an "all-out faint" at the sight of a mouse, and was "as useless as a penguin with his hands." In part, it was a Latin...
Best of the contemporaries is Fritz Winter, 51, who started as a coal miner, attended the Bauhaus where he was Kandinsky's assistant, served on the Russian front and spent years in a Russian P.W. camp. His expressive Dead Forest (opposite) re-creates the world in terms of imagined structure, much as Klee did with fantasy. It is harsh and foreboding. After Germany's tortured half-century it would be misreading human nature to expect it to be otherwise...