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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...
...will depend on whether the eventual winners are receptive to foreign influence or are isolationist hard-liners. Thermo Electron, a Waltham, Mass., company, is negotiating to build in China a $110 million co-generation plant that would turn out electric power and ferrosilicon metal by reusing the same fuel (coal). But, says chief executive George Hatsopoulos, "if the situation reverted to anything like the ((1960s)) Cultural Revolution, we wouldn't want to have anything to do with China...
Much of what Congress does legally would put Executive Branch members behind bars. If White House chief of staff John Sununu, for example, were to take himself and his eight children to Disneyland at the expense of the coal industry so it could talk to him about the disadvantages of clean-air legislation, he would probably be accused of accepting a bribe. Yet industry- sponsored trips are a major form of recreation for some members of Congress and their staffs...
UMWA spokesperson Kenneth Zinn said the Connecticut-based company's board has "taken away health coverage from senior citizens, widows, people with black lung disease, men whose backs were broken in its own coal mines...
...Robert Stone works in a luxury corporate office in Manhattan," Zinn said. "He doesn't have to look into the eyes of coal miners who have black lung disease because their health benefits have been cut off by his company. If he isn't going to come down to the coal fields, we'll come up here...