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Kirkland addressed an AFL-CIO Regional Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston only hours after marching in a rally of 6000 coal miners and black lung victims in Washington. The miners, in the midst of a two-day work stoppage, were protesting the Reagan administration's proposed cutbacks in benefits for victims of the respiratory ailment...
Stockman wants to end Government subsidy of the synfuels program for a saving next year of $864 million. Energy Secretary James Edwards makes a proforma pitch to save one experimental project - a coal liquefaction plant to be built in West Virginia - but Reagan appears unmoved...
...wildcat strikes continued unabated. In Bialsko Biala, near the Czech border, 60,000 workers in 120 factories, including the assembly line for Polish Fiats, stopped work to demand the firing of the provincial governor and three other officials for corruption and mismanagement. Workers in 70 coal mines and industrial plants in the Bytom region in Upper Silesia struck to protest government failure to honor many of the agreements it made with Solidarity last autumn. In the Lower Silesian city of Jelenia Gora, 250,000 workers staged a general strike on Friday to dramatize then- disaffection with inept local Communist officials...
...saga began in late 1977, when Kennecott took some of the proceeds from the Government-ordered sale of a subsidiary, Peabody Coal Co., and bought Carborundum Co., a maker of abrasives. As soon as the purchase was made, T. Roland (Ted) Berner, 70, the chairman of Curtiss-Wright, saw an opportunity. He said that Kennecott paid too much for Carborundum and that the copper company should have spent the money for improvement of its antiquated copper mines or distributed it to the shareholders. Berner then spent $75.5 million to buy 9.9% of Kennecott's shares and announced that...
...problem of sulfur pollution and the need for effective control policies will increase as the country shifts from oil to coal usage. Richard Wilson, professor of Physics and researcher at Harvard's energy and environmental policy center, said yesterday. "As the country prepares to burn coal more extensively, we have very little margin for safety." he added...