Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bellotti, who is in the midst of his own investigation into the alleged improprities committed in the MBM-U Mass case did not share the governor's enthusiasm. He questioned the feasibility of investigating every state and country building contract entered into over the last nine years. He added the general nature of the inquiry could "interfere directly with pending criminal prosecutions and civil cases being handled by the executive branch...
Warmer weather and increased production from non-U.M.W. mines had undercut the strike's effectiveness. Moreover, the financial burden of the walkout was finally grinding down the stubborn miners and their families. "I'm hurtin'," confessed Miner Johnny Elkins, 25, of Hernshaw, W. Va., who voted against the last contract offer. To make ends meet, he had been cutting and selling firewood for $35 a truckload. "Now spring's coming," said Elkins, "and people ain't needing firewood." So he traded in his chain saw for a secondhand trail bike and voted...
Whatever their disagreements, the Eastern operators face a common threat: that the strike will promote the highly productive, non-U.M.W. strip mines in the West at the expense of the high-cost, mostly U.M.W. mines of the East...
...holes," small, nonunion mines that were underselling the large operators. The U.M.W. permitted a series of "sweetheart" contracts under which management and locals ignored sections of the national contract to keep mines in business and save jobs. But the sweethearts did not stop the growth of non-U.M.W. mines, which now account for about 50% of extracted coal; they only added to rank-and-file resentment...
...crowd jammed into the lobby and chanted "We Got the Fever, We're Hot We Can't Be Stopped," as the individual players filtered through the doors Soon the song changed to "We Don't Give a Damn About Digger, Digger Digger Phelps (three times), We're from D-U-K-E, Duke." As expected, Notre Dame will be Duke's first-round opponent next weekend in St. Louis...