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Four more Harvard grapplers notched two victories last night. Freshman Rick Kief blanked the 126-lb. Engineer, 7-0, and then edged UNH Wildcat Marc Madnick...
...vote in a three-way race). Miller now contends that granting strike rights to locals would promote peace in the coal fields. His reasoning: locals armed with the right to strike could push mine owners to settle quickly grievances that now fester until workers' tempers explode in wildcat walkouts. Wildcats by U.M.W. locals so far this year have cost the coal companies 2.3 million man-days of work. Miners of District 17 in southern West Virginia struck for ten weeks last summer...
...members of U.M.W.'s District 17 in southern West Virginia are inclined to strike over almost anything. The biggest, brashest, most uncontrollable and most defiant of the union's 21 districts, District 17 went on a ten-week wildcat strike last summer over a reduction in health benefits. It made no difference to the strikers that U.M.W. President Arnold Miller is a District 17 alumnus. They felt that Miller had backtracked on campaign promises and doublecrossed them. In the past, 17's members have struck over things that have nothing to do with coal or the U.M.W...
Cutbacks in payments by these trusts triggered this summer's West Virginia wildcat strikes, and provoked a march on Washington by 1,000 of the striking miners...
...union's negotiating package includes a substantial wage hike from the present level of $65 a day (up to perhaps $100), better safety procedures and a restoration of payments to pension funds and health programs that were stopped during past wildcat strikes. But the key demand is to make the wildcats legal. For years, U.M.W. contracts have provided grievance and arbitration procedures to settle disputes between union locals and employers. But the union claims that the mine owners cynically drag out the proceedings, knowing that if the miners walk out, it is an easy matter to get an injunction...