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...recent negotiations, some of the mining companies have come close to agreeing to the black union's demand for an across-the-board 22% wage increase, while others have not. At week's end a strike was due to begin Sunday night at five gold mines and two coal mines employing a total of 60,000 black miners. In the past such walkouts have led to the firing of large numbers of striking workers...
Mitterand: Shhhhhhh! Will you keep it down. If your paranoia about that leaked to the public, they would all realize how much of a threat the strike really is. Just remember the plan. Let us distract attention from the coal, diamond and gold miners with out economic sanctions. You may not have to worry too much anyway. Cyril Ramaphosa [general secretary of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers] says only 240,000 belong to the union, and your Chamber of Mines reports that figure at only 83,000. It may not go off too well...
...overwhelming majority of delegates also demonstrated the resentment many miners feel toward Prime Minister Thatcher's Conservative government and the National Coal Board. They approved a motion to congratulate the leadership for its handling of the disastrous strike and made a rule change enabling Scargill to remain president of the N.U.M. for life. British Energy Secretary Peter Walker has condemned the union's actions, warning that "every miner who values the freedom this country offers and has no desire to turn Britain into a Communist state should recognize what the mineworkers' conference is all about...
...realities of the new nation for much of the Black population did not come close to Mugabe's pre-election promises. A strike wave rolled through the new Zimbabwe as coal miners, nurses and teachers made such demands as higher wages, shorter hours and better working conditions. Mugabe's response to these events, despite his claims for a better life for all Blacks, was much the same as his conservative predecessors. Worker demands were ignored as the newly independent state quelled strikes and cleared channels for the inflow of foreign capital into Zimbabwe's cheap labor market...
...turbulent has been the long-running strike of mineworkers against the A.T. Massey Coal Co. that it recalls the Hatfield-McCoy feud in the same region, around the West Virginia-Kentucky line. Now the conflict, involving some 1,500 members of the United Mine Workers, is evoking even uglier images. "It's almost like a civil war," said ex-Mayor Robert McCoy of Matewan, W. Va. Hayes West, a nonunion truck driver, was killed and another driver wounded when snipers opened fire on a convoy on Coeburn Mountain in Kentucky; three other drivers have been wounded in similar ambushes...