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...this size are often run by executives with degrees from the country's leading business schools. The rest of the membership comprises medium-size mines owned by utility companies, as well as many small independent operators who employ as few as a dozen miners. Said one such owner in western Pennsylvania: "I drink beer with my men at the tavern. I know them well, and my father knew their fathers, all on a first-name basis...
These differences help explain the bitter quarreling that broke out among B.C.O.A. members after the United Mine Workers voted down their contract offer two weeks ago. The association is dominated by its biggest members, and many of the small owners complain that the B.C.O.A.'S initial hard-line approach to the bargaining was set by large operators who wanted to break the union. Said the owner of a tiny mine in western Pennsylvania: "The big boys ran the B.C.O.A. show, no matter what we thought. They realized that [U.M.W. President] Arnold Miller was weak and a little dumb...
...B.C.O.A., some operators predict that the industry will eventually adopt a two-tier approach to bargaining: one for issues on which all members agree, the other for issues on which they are split. For instance, the operators are equally concerned with increasing productivity. Said Madison, W. Va., Mine-owner Herbert Kinder: "Give the operators a stable work force, and the miners could have anything they want." But the owners are divided over the proposed contract's requirement that miners pay up to $200 in deductibles for medical care. Said a small Pennsylvania operator: "The deductibles are tiny...
Larry Flynt, the owner of Hustler magazine, was the last defense witness at yet another of his trials for distributing pornography. "Hustler is a satire," he explained on the witness stand last week...
Even baseball's trial separation, the winter offseason, produced problems in the Yankees' big, unhappy family. Steinbrenner plunged once more into the free-agent market and, two megasalaries later, became the proud owner of Rich Gossage, the Pittsburgh Pirates' fireballing relief pitcher, and Rawly Eastwick of the St.,Louis Cardinals, who had an off year in 1977 but was the League's top reliever for the Reds in 1976. Since the American League's No. 1 fireman, Cy Young Winner Sparky Lyle, was already in Yankee employ, Steinbrenner's bullpen overkill brought immediate...