Word: vestaburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical meeting in Vestaburg (pop. 950), Pa., the room was so thick with smoke that the people in back could hardly see the district president up front. As the debate wore on, miners from time to time slipped out into the raw morning air to spit out tobacco juice-a habit they acquire to get rid of the coal dust they inhale in the mines. The gesture may also have expressed their feelings about the contract. "If Carter says this contract's a fair shake," said one miner, "they can take that peanut farmer back to Georgia and bury...
While disappointed with the contract, other miners admitted that they would vote for it as the best they could probably get. "If the younger folks want to fight it out, let them," said Frank Washburn, 61, at the end of the Vestaburg meeting. "I wonder if a turndown now would get us anything in the future...
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