Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back from a crescent-shaped driveway, the white Georgian manor sits atop a grassy knoll, its bright red door beckoning in the sunshine of an early Virginia spring. The air is vibrant with the commotion of shrieking children and barking dogs at play beneath budding oaks and hickories. A woman?joking, chiding, cajoling?bustles in and out of the house, chatting with friends who come to visit, taking on an older child at tennis (and winning), carrying a beer to a gardener on the 5˝-acre grounds...
...Virginia S. Ridgely '70, one of the ten students, said yesterday that the immediate idea was that no one was prepared to take the exam on the scheduled date of May 6, but that the long-range idea was to consider more important problems such...
...remain on the job. They argue, moreover, that the pension fund, fed by a royalty of 400 per ton of coal mined, ties the union too closely to the fortunes of the coal companies and tends to emphasize production rather than benefits for the mine workers. Last week West Virginia Representative Ken Hechler called for a congressional investigation of the fund, which in 1968 earned only $4,600,000 on a $180 million balance. U.M.W. members also chafe at the union's un democratic organization...
...filled grave for 78 mine workers last November. The union boss philosophized that "as long as we mine coal there is always the inherent danger of explosion." Miners also complain about union inertia during this year's successful effort to get a bill through the West Virginia legislature compensating them for black lung, an irreversible condition that results from inhaling coal dust. Led by three coal-country physicians and joined by Congressman Ken Hechler and omni-purpose crusader Ralph Nader, most of the state's 43,000 miners walked off their jobs in a three-week wildcat strike...
...trying to lead a fight against the union for their own political expediency." The U.M.W. president, who rarely visits the bleak mine towns where his members precariously earn their living, has decided that he should do some campaigning himself. U.M.W. headquarters announced this week that Boyle will tour West Virginia to tell the miners "what the union has done for them...