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Stone said in a brief interview yesterday that "we're trying very hard to get Pittston to negotiate." He refused further comment...
...Pittston officials also refused comment on the strike and Harvard's ties to the company...
...wake of the strike, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), in support of the Pittston union, have called on Stone and Harvard to take an active role in resolving the conflict. HUCTW has held two rallies at Harvard in support of their position...
...week-old strike by 1,900 mine workers against Pittston Coal in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky began as a model of genteel labor relations, with strikers staging peaceful sit-ins and picketing politely. But last week the increasingly bitter standoff, which has grown to include more than 37,000 wildcat strikers throughout coal country, turned into an old- fashioned, ugly war. A car bomb exploded at a Virginia coal company, and strikers hurled rocks at coal-carrying trucks near the entrance to Sydney Coal in Kentucky...
...United Mine Workers. Richard Trumka, president of the U.M.W., said he ordered the shutdown in order to "calm the volatile situation." When miners return to work this week, tensions will be high. Trumka has accepted an invitation for the U.M.W. to return to the negotiating table, but Pittston has not yet commented on the proposal...