Word: virginia
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That leaves the matter in the hands of state and local authorities, who are equally reluctant to do anything that would trigger violence. Virginia's Republican Governor John Dalton has been the most militant to date, merely by putting the National Guard on a stand-by basis. Pennsylvania's Milton Shapp refuses to call out the Guard on his own initiative. Illinois' Republican Governor Jim Thompson has ordered state police accompanying federal marshals not to participate in the enforcement of federal labor laws, as in the case of a peaceful picket defying the Taft-Hartley injunction...
When West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller entered the state capitol one morning last week, he was besieged by a group of miners who had come to demonstrate. "What about the National Guard, Governor?" one of them shouted. Rockefeller, whose grandfather ran a mine where the National Guard killed 40 strikers in 1914, yelled back over the din: "I have nothing to say about that. There isn't going to be a problem, is there...
When Arnold Miller, 54, rode the wave of miners' dissent into power, he promised to democratize the union. That he did-the expired contract was the first ever to be voted on by the membership. "In the old days," says a West Virginia district leader, "a contract was sent down and the membership just went back to work. Now you have all this freedom...
...work, but if pickets are there, I'll go home," said Claude Profitt, 47. Said Ken Hager: "I drive a long ways every day before daylight. How is the National Guard gonna protect a miner on these West Virginia roads...
Martina Navratilova's advance to the semifinals of the Virginia Slims women's singles almost took a funny turn last night when she encountered a surprisingly tough challenge from eighth-ranked Kerry Reid...