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Further, the U.M.W. is losing support among miners; at least 40% of the nation's coal now comes from nonunion pits and strips. If Miller sticks to his demands, the companies can switch production to the largely nonunionized fields in the West, where productivity is generally higher anyhow...
...thirds increase in coal production by 1985. If the election fails to produce peace and competent leadership for the mine workers, the forthcoming coal boom could well bust the union. Companies will either start negotiating contracts at a local, rather than national level, or simply turn to nonunion mines. Non-U.M.W. mines already provide 40% of the nation's coal...
...fewer than ten per cent of its workers are union members. Harlan mines are among the most unsafe in the world--in 1970, one day before the first anniversary of the passage of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, 38 miners died in an explosion at a nonunion mine at Hurricane Creek, only a half-hour away. The miners were to remain out on strike for 13 months...
...whites. Then, too, many Southern workers, especially in Piedmont towns where the local textile mill is almost the only source of employment, are so happy to have industrial jobs that they do not care about the fact that those jobs pay less than similar ones in the North. (Southern nonunion textile pay averages little more than the $2.30-an-hour federal minimum wage...
Many miners did not even know exactly why they were out. The proximate cause was the effort of one U.M.W. outpost, Local 1759 at the Cedar Coal Co. of Cabin Creek, W. Va., to put one formerly nonunion job under its jurisdiction. When Cedar Coal demurred and was backed by a federal court, the local walked out and, demonstrating the U.M.W.'s traditional solidarity, so did many other miners across the nation...