Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such gentle prodding could easily turn into tougher tugging if the ratification process continues to stumble slowly along. Certainly, a rank-and-file rejection of the contract--the first such grass-roots referendum ever in an autocratic union that has had the likes of John L. Lewis and W.A. (Tony) Boyle as its advocates--might prod Ford to choose his option of an 80-day, back-to-work, cooling-off period under Taft-Hartley instead of beginning the complex negotiation and ratification cycle again. Whether the miners--a group of workers who, by virtue of the very interdependent nature...
...Holt, his teammates, and the 42,000 fans, it was a memorable contest, a game never to be forgotten, and will rank as The Game of all The Games (save one), the likes of which won't be seen for quite some time...
...monitored election of 1972, Miller's campaign took on the air of a crusade, attracting the support of widely diverse groups, including poverty-fighting VISTA volunteers. He beat Boyle by 70,000 votes to 56,000-the first time in recent labor history that any upstart from the rank and file had ousted the president of any major U.S. union...
...union's Cadillac limousines. Even as he planned to raise the incomes of U.M.W. members, he declined to adopt a princely life-style at their expense. Unlike most U.S. union chiefs, who rose through a series of headquarters jobs, Miller carried fresh in his mind the memories of rank-and-file travails. Just two years before, he had been down working in the mines, and on the eve of his ascent to power he had been supporting a family of four with part-time jobs and a $106-a-month war-disability check from the Government...
Whenever he can, Miller visits the mines, bridging the gap cultivated by his predecessors. "I want to know what's going on," he says. "I respect any man's opinion. I was a rank and filer, and I still am." His is a new-found confidence, and he wants to make it contagious. "I felt for many years because I had no formal education -this is a feeling that is consistent with most coal miners-that we miners were handicapped," he says. "We were not very vocal about the problems...