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After smoldering in the coal fields of Virginia and West Virginia for two months, a strike by 1,500 miners against the Pittston Coal company flared last week into a fast-spreading wildcat walkout. More than 20,000 union miners struck in sympathy with the Pittston workers, shutting down mines in six states from Pennsylvania to Tennessee...
...Pittston miners worked without a contract for 14 months after the firm demanded cost-cutting changes in work rules and health and pension benefits. Last week United Mine Workers president Richard Trumka called upon other labor unions to support the strike. Speaking at a rally in Charleston, W. Va., attended by leaders of the airline-machinists and communications-workers unions, he said, "It's time that we stood up as a large family and fought back." But so far, it is mostly the miners who are aflame...
About 70 demonstrators--mostly members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers [HUCTW] and other sympathetic unions--demanded at the noon rally that Stone cut the University's ties with the mining company by resigning his post either at Harvard or at Pittston. Stone is one of seven members of the Corporation, which owns all Harvard property and which is responsible for University policy decisions...
...Stone is legally one of the owners of Harvard University," Bliss Professor of History John Womack told the assembled protesters. "If you talk about corporate responsibility at Pittston, you've got to talk about corporate responsibility at Harvard...
Stone could not be reached for comment yesterday. A Pittston spokesperson Tuesday called the demonstrators' tactics "character assassination" and "corporate vilification...