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With no bargaining sessions scheduled, both workers and management were girding for a prolonged walkout...
Last week the Soviet leader managed to keep his balance atop a couple of spectacularly unpredictable waves. The last of some 300,000 striking coal miners, whose walkout at one point threatened to spread to rail workers and paralyze the vast Soviet Union, returned to their pits, mollified by a package of raises, consumer goods and political reform carrying no official price tag but estimated at $8 billion. In a dramatic bow to the intense nationalism of the Baltic republics, which were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, the Supreme Soviet, led by Gorbachev, approved a resolution endorsing plans...
...times the daily norm. But there were no Stakhanovites in the Soviet Union's biggest coalfields last week. Wildcat strikes by more than 300,000 workers paralyzed some 250 mines and factories in the Kuzbass and Donbass basins, resulting in a 6 million-ton loss of production. The walkout spread as far as the coalpits in Vorkuta in the far north and Karaganda in the Kazakhstan Republic in Central Asia. And there were rumblings that railroad workers might join in on Aug. 1, an action that could paralyze the country. "Such developments create a threat to the realization...
...Caucasus and central Asia. Only < last week bloody rioting that left 20 dead erupted between minority Abkhazians and the Georgian majority in a Black Sea region of western Georgia. Some 3,000 Interior Ministry troops were dispatched to help local police quiet the unrest. But the audacious mining walkout has presented Gorbachev with the most serious labor challenge he has had to face, and casts in graphic terms the cruel dilemma of perestroika: how to raise productivity and living standards at the same time...
After smoldering in the coal fields of Virginia and West Virginia for two months, a strike by 1,500 miners against the Pittston Coal company flared last week into a fast-spreading wildcat walkout. More than 20,000 union miners struck in sympathy with the Pittston workers, shutting down mines in six states from Pennsylvania to Tennessee...