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Many recall their days of party membership as the most exciting periods of their lives. "The world was all around you all the time, " says a psychologist in her mid-50s. "Every time I wrote a leaflet or marched on a picket line or went to a meeting I was remaking the world." Some had less ambitious goals. Says a California woman: "Of all the emotions I've known in life, nothing compares with the emotion of total comradeship I knew among the fruit pickers in the Thirties, nothing else has ever made me feel as alive, as coherent...
...Press Connection is not your typical, antimanagement picket-line broadside. It is a full-size, 16-page weekly crowded with local news features and advertising and distributed free to 65,700 Madison-area homes. The paper's first issue scooped the competition with disclosures of a proposed local property-tax increase, and two weeks ago the Connection published an exclusive about CIA spying in Madison during the 1960s. "We had all that talent out on the streets," says Connection Editor Ron McCrea, 34, who used to be news editor of the Capital Times. "We wanted to offer the community...
...been painful: sales in California, which account for almost 45% of the company's volume, are down by 15%. A possible settlement is complicated by the company's demand that the union accept an open shop, which became a management goal after 53% of the strikers crossed picket lines and returned to work last spring. But Peter Coors thinks that Coors has weathered the worst. Says he: "If we've been hurt, then we've been hurt as much as we're going to be hurt...
...addition, it is U.M.W. policy that when just one picket from a struck mine appears at another mine, the workers there also must walk off the job. Even some union members have doubts about this tactic. Complains Fred Voithofer, 49, a miner in Greene County, Pa.: "Guys from out of state showed up and shut us down three times last summer. One had a gun. No way I'm going to argue with that kind of thing, but it's dead wrong. The company treats us well, and we shouldn't be penalized when some other company...
...earned by nonunion spouses. Already 17 is going its independent way by opening negotiations with three coal companies. That may put pressure on the U.M.W.'s national leaders, but one thing is certain: no coal will be mined by District 17's members while a picket line is standing. That just is not done...