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Before the Senate Banking and Currency committee last week, a trim, grey-haired woman slowly read this West Virginia coal miner's account of his fight with life...
...banners picked up the story. Many were draped in black, to show that a member of the lodge had been killed in the pits since the last gala. Pictures and slogans told of hopes and fears. Many banners said "The Lord is my strength." One showed a miner leaving his wife and child; it was called "His Last Goodmorning...
...several moments, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay of Oxford University stared at the departing figure of the young man with the coal scars on his face. The man, a Staffordshire miner named John Elkin, had left school at the age of ten; yet he had come a long way to hear Lindsay lecture on philosophy. "I heartily wish," sighed Lindsay, "that all my university students had a brain as good...
Sullenly the strikers realized the hatred that they had stirred up. A newsman who visited the colliery towns wrote: "Miners spot a stranger as soon as he comes into town. As you go to the bar the talk quiets and eyes follow you-intelligent, suspicious eyes-summing you up. Nowhere in the world have I felt more like a foreigner." In Newcastle a striking miner working in his garden saw three air force Vampires zooming over, cried to his wife: "Look, they're going to bomb Federation House...
...opportunistic rabble-rouser with no clear-cut political faith, Ex-Miner Juan Lechin got control of the tin union during the wartime regime of Dictator-President Gualberto Villaroel. After Villaroel was hanged to a lamppost in 1946 and his Movement of Nationalist Revolution (M.N.R.) disrupted, Lechin was among the first to cheer the new democratic government. But he missed no chance to badger it with ever-mounting wage demands...