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Ball's mulish and ruthless uses of power are legend. Rather than bend to union demands in 1963, he took a nine-year strike on the Florida East Coast Railway. He ran the line with scab labor, and managers trimmed featherbedded jobs and produced the road's first profits since World War II. Another time, when Ball decided that the taxes of several Florida counties were too high, he simply paid half the bill; only Dade County had the temerity to sue for the rest...
...twelve-month rule was the hottest issue at Blackpool. Veteran union leaders who support it were jeered by the militant rank and file; one union chief, National Union of Mineworkers President Joe Gormley, was spat upon and called a "scab" by demonstrators. It was left to the Prime Minister himself, a trades-union member for four decades, to make the most effective case for wage restraint. In a forceful, televised sermonette, Callaghan pointed out that wage increases above 10% would "seriously weaken" the government's chances of containing inflation. "I was brought up to believe that free collective bargaining...
...going to his home 30 miles away; he is careful to go no further than that. Miller says that Patrick lost the union millions of dollars by setting up a computerized dues-accounting system that does not work. Patterson calls both Miller and Patrick "clowns"; Patrick terms Patterson a "scab...
...still laughing, replaces it. You get the idea she'd use it. The power struggle between the two is glossed over, but Crusenberry becomes the leader of the women. When the men are hampered by injunction and fear, the Harlan women take over, walking picket duty, stopping scab cars--they are the backbone that holds up the flesh of the strike...
...anger to rise cold in your throat--it's strangely impersonal, yet moving. A flashlight shines on some muck on the ground, and a miner's dirty hand stirs through it. "Know what that is?" the voice asks. "Them;s brains. Shit. That's the way with a dirty scab. Shoot you when you're not even looking. Shit." Kopple was asked to film Jones' funeral, and it's here in horrible detail, with Jones' mother carried away moaning "Oh Death...