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...reduced the U.M.W.'s top leadership to a fractious clique of backbiting squabblers. President Arnold Miller, 54, re-elected by a minority of the members last spring (TIME, June 27), has remained mired in struggles with erstwhile supporters who say that he has not shown effective leadership. Meanwhile, wildcat strikes by U.M.W. locals have mushroomed out of control. As a result, the U.M.W., now negotiating in Washington with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association for a new three-year contract, finds itself unable to do the two things that any labor union must do in contract talks: speak convincingly...
More important, one in six wildcat wells (wells drilled where there has been no previous exploration) has been striking oil or gas-a very high success rate. "We are finding big gas fields in Oklahoma, western Wyoming and even Nevada, of all places!" says Marvin Davis. head of Denver's Davis Oil Co a big independent driller. "There is so much baloney coming out of Washington that we are running...
...Miller is now in a much more difficult situation. Coal operators are angry because he is unwilling to curb wildcat strikes, which have increased to near-epidemic proportions in the Eastern fields. Miller has stated that he will insist on contract revisions that would give U.M.W. locals the right to strike over grievances. Miller also says he wants another big increase for the miners, but he will find the operators tight fisted. Last time around, the mineowners realized that they owed the workers a big raise to let them catch up with other unions. Now that U.M.W. wages and allowances...
...nation's coal fields as the 280,000 working and retired members of the U.M.W. prepare to vote next week. Yet the election could not be more pivotal. With its leadership preoccupied by bitter intramural power struggles and its membership caught up in a seemingly endless series of wildcat strikes, the U.M.W. has reached the brink of disintegration-just when President Carter's energy policy calls for a two-thirds increase in coal production by 1985. If the election fails to produce peace and competent leadership for the mine workers, the forthcoming coal boom could well bust...
...Riders in the Sky flavor. People recognize this song, a big hit for Dolly in 1973. "This is about a woman who tried to steal my man," Dolly cries out. "She pulled my wig off and almost beat me to death with it. I fought that woman like a wildcat. I had another wig, but I didn't want another man." People love it. The flash of Instamatic cameras is almost as blinding as Dolly's finery. It is not a Nikon crowd...