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...U.M.W.'s presidential election, which is scheduled for June. In a three-way campaign that is already getting heated, Miller is running for re-election against Union Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick and U.M.W. International Board Member Lee Roy Patterson. Patrick, 46, a voluble, fiery fourth-generation miner from Monongah, W. Va., ran with Miller on the reform ticket in 1972 and represents the progressive wing of the union. Though he came to office without bookkeeping experience or a high school education, he is credited with putting the U.M.W.'s ledgers in order after years of abuse under Boyle...
...timbered, rolling hills of Marion County have seen death, and the markers dot the landscape. Here 361 perished at Monongah in 1907. There is Mount Calvary Cemetery where hundreds of them were buried in mass graves. In Farmington, there is a monument to 16 men killed in Consol No. 9 in 1954. Up the street races a boy whose father died in those same shafts two years ago. Out at the entrance to the Llewellyn Portal-the center of the explosions and fires on Nov. 20. 1968-a wooden frame holds a dozen bouquets put there on the second anniversary...
...plan was originated by The Rev Everett Briggs of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Monongah. "They've been living under a pall of death," The Rev. Briggs said. "There was this fantasy that widows couldn't remarry because their husbands weren't buried. They couldn't reorganize their lives...
...Elizabeth Skarzinski is familiar with tragedy. Her grandfather was killed in the worst disaster in U.S. mining history, the blast at Monongah that killed 361. She signed the agreement, but still hopes for the recovery of her husband's body: "I just bought two plots at Mount Calvary Cemetery. Even if they don't find my husband, I'll have a marker there for him, and that'll be our place." Women whose husbands were closest to the blast fear that their bodies were cremated and want the agreement's assurance that the shafts will...
Coal mines have been killing miners at a rate that works out to an average of 100 per month for the past 100 years. Sometimes they die in explosions and fire like the Mannington disaster of 1968 that killed 78 (and Monongah, 1907. 307 dead: Centralia. 1947. 111 dead: West Frankfort, 1951, 119 dead: or Benwood, 1924, 119 dead: or Eccles, 1914. 183 dead...