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Arnold Miller, president of the United Mine Workers (UMW), described last night how his disillusionment with the leadership of the UMW led to frustrating efforts at reform and finally to his election as head of the 195,000-member union...
Miller plans to pursue several avenues of reform since his election. He said that he hopes to establish a strike fund to strengthen the UMW's bargaining position with coal companies. He added that the union has not struck in the last 20 years...
...United Mine Workers Union and the mine operators failed to agree on new terms before the old contract expired. Though Union President W.A. (Tony) Boyle did not call a walkout, the 80,000 UMW members, following the "no contract, no work" tradition, walked off their jobs anyway. The union wants daily wages increased from $37 to about $50, a doubling of the 40? per ton "royalty" that the operators pay into the union pension fund, paid sick leave and increased medical benefits. The biggest complication is the confusion caused by the freeze and the controls that will follow...
...Shenandoah Valley and the mountains surrounding it are tied primarily to Appalachia. The violent battle for the leadership of the United Mine Workers (UMW) last summer, the black lung disease, and all the problems of Appalachian poverty present a different set of problems for a political candidate entering the area. For years the mountain people had appeared satisfied to the politicians in Richmond, but food stamps and a sellout union are no longer acceptable to them a decade after John F. Kennedy focused attention on the area's problems in his West Virginia primary...
Contrasting sharply with the unhappiness and poverty in Hazard and McDowell is nearby Wheelwright, Ky., and perhaps this contrast is a stimulus to the agitation. Wheelwright is owned by Inland Steel, which operates a large, highly mechanized rail mine. Inland miners work under a UMW contract and live in a town benevolently managed by Inland. Except for the fact that a private company rather than a State is the economic planner, Wheelwright closely resembles a model for a socialist city. Comfortable houses are rented to the miners at rates (about $25 a month) which do not even cover maintenance...