Word: yablonsky
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rule the union in Lewis' dictatorial style and further alienated the membership by largely ignoring their wishes for fringe benefits. Boyle kept dissident miners at bay by packing union conventions with his own delegates. He finally lost his hold following the 1969 union election. Dissident Leader Joseph Yablonski had waged a fierce campaign, citing Boyle as an embezzler of union pension funds. Boyle claimed victory; Yablonski charged the election was fixed and asked the Labor Department to investigate. Three weeks later Yablonski, his wife and daughter were shot and killed. Just last month Boyle's 1974 conviction...
...TIME IN THE BOOK is 1969, and the story takes place against the events that colored that sad year. Hunter McNatt leaves West Virginia just after he and others start their efforts to replace the corrupt United Mine Workers president Tony Boyle with Joseph Yablonski, one of their...
...death stench from Farmington No. 9. where 78 miners lost their lives in the worst mining disaster in recent times. Ahead is the murder of Yablonski by Tony Boyle's thugs. These are the last-gasp days of the New Left--SDS has splintered, and when Hobie gets to Boston he falls in with one of the wayward factions left by the rupture, a remnant that went neither with the Weathermen or Progressive Labor which Sayles calls "Third Way." Hobie's adventures with these self-styled urban guerillas as take place in the shadow of the Harvard strike...
...Oscar-winning documentary of miners and a coal strike in Harlan Country, Kentucky is very worth seeing. Kopple skillfully weaves a pastiche of film clips from the 1930s, when the county was known as "Bloody Harlan," footage of UMWA leaders from John L. Lewis to Tony Boyle, Jock Yablonski, and Arnold Miller, and always the 13-month strike that didn't end until miner Lawrence Jones was murdered by scabs. The music is first-rate--all old union songs, some by local hero David Morris of Ivydale, West Virginia, Kopple's camera is discreet; there is no voice-over narration...
Kopple began to make her film about the Miners for Democracy, the UMWA reform factiion that sprang up after the murder of Jock Yablonski in 1969. Instead, she found herself focusing on Harlan County and the test fight the union was waging there against Duke Power. She moved among the miners, lived with them, eventually got herself beaten up with them. But all the time her camera was rolling, and Kopple has captured incredible scenes on film. Here is Basil...