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BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesSTRIKESWildcatting in The Coal Fields
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.
The Pittston miners worked without a contract for 14 months
after the firm demanded cost-cutting changes in work rules and
health and pension benefits. Last week United Mine Workers
president Richard Trumka called upon other labor unions to support
the strike. Speaking at a rally in Charleston, W. Va., attended by
leaders of the airline-machinists and communications-workers
unions, he said, "It's time that we stood up as a large family and
fought back." But so far, it is mostly the miners who are aflame.