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...coal companies (35? per ton for surface mining, 25? per ton for underground mining) to finance restoration of the more than 1 million acres torn up by strip miners. One probable effect of the bill would have been the forced closing of a number of marginal surface mines in Appalachia...
...idle miners in Appalachia and elsewhere picked over the tentative coal settlement last week, formal deliberations ran into deep trouble in Washington. The bargaining council of the United Mine Workers voted by 38 to 1 to send the pact back to negotiators for more-much more. Already the settlement calls for wage-and-benefit increases exceeding 50% over three years. But council members sought a bigger pay raise next year than the negotiated 9%, as well as the right to strike over local issues. They also wanted a reinstatement of the traditional two-week vacation period, which had been split...
Despite the stupendous size of the package, there was little jubilation among the miners in the humpbacked hills and crooked hollows of Appalachia, where most of the nation's coal is dug. Many of the men reckoned that they deserved still more. By last week's end, the union's Bargaining Council, made up of key officers, had not yet approved the contract and ran into surprisingly long arguments over its fine points. Meanwhile, the outcome of the membership-wide vote was uncertain...
...miners of Appalachia, Miller has become a symbol of new possibilities in their lives. Like Miller, they are mainly of Anglo-Saxon stock. On the whole, they are proud, patriotic, sometimes violent and yet often deeply religious. For them, the mines are generally an alternative to grinding rural poverty. Those who do not flee to the city love the raw, knobby hill country and the sense of freedom from urban constrictions and pressures...
According to Mark 16: 18, Jesus promised that believers would be able to "pick up serpents" or "drink any deadly thing" without harm. Taking that promise literally, some members of Pentecostal sects in Southern Appalachia prove their faith by handling venomous snakes and drinking poisons...