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More than 300 miners were killed last year. Boyle did not exactly appease his dues payers with a graceless statement after Consolidation's supposedly "safe" Consol No. 9 turned into a gas-filled grave for 78 mine workers last November. The union boss philosophized that "as long as we mine coal there is always the inherent danger of explosion." Miners also complain about union inertia during this year's successful effort to get a bill through the West Virginia legislature compensating them for black lung, an irreversible condition that results from inhaling coal dust. Led by three coal...
...wake of the Consol 9 disaster, Representative Ken Hechler of Huntington, W. Va., had the necessary courage. Said he: "Coal miners don't have to die. In a civilized society, it is nothing short of criminal to allow present conditions to continue in the coal mines...
...surface; but 78 others still remained trapped, some as much as 600 ft. below the ground. As hope diminished for their rescue, the disaster looked to be the worst mining accident in the U.S. since 119 men died in a 1951 explosion in West Frankfort, Ill.* Muffled explosions shook Consol No. 9 for three days, preventing rescue workers from going in after possible survivors. No one could say what set off the first blast, but once the fire was under way, it spread rapidly, feeding on combustible coal dust and deadly methane. Though the mine had been checked regularly with...
...been putting somewhat less emphasis on culture, and Simon has become in creasingly interested in it. Stung by a number of critically acclaimed produc tions that proved to be financial flops, Susskind has expanded into bread-and-butter situation shows, notably NBC's Get Smart series. Simon has consol idated the bulk of his holdings - Hunt Foods, McCall Corp. and Canada Dry Corp. - into a $1-billion-a-year opera tion, now devotes much of his time to collecting art and serving as a Uni versity of California regent...
Flute & Toy Soldiers. Next, Love battled the railroads, whose rates on coal had risen so high that coal cost 8? a ton more to haul than to mine. Consol built a 108-mile pipeline across Ohio to a Cleveland electric plant, shipped a slurry of coal and water at $1 a ton less than railroad rates. The Eastern railroads got the hint, and last March dropped their coal rates by one-third (TIME, April...