University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 2, 1978
Mining strike stretches to 59 days, ties record
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP)—The strike by 160,000 United Mine Workers members goes into its 50th day today, tying a record for the union's longest nationwide strike. The energy reserves and evokes memories of the longest strike of the past.
Even if a settlement is reached immediately, the walkout will set a new record, because the UMW ratification process requires 10 days.
The issues are similar to those in 1946, the year a 59-day walkout won the union as pay increase and its first health and welfare fund.
TODAY, TOO, the miners want better wages and health and pension benefits. Meanwhile, as in 1948, their strike has cut energy production and is creating energy shortages.
THE CURRENT strike has halved nationwide coal production, and power companies serving Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia have asked customers to cut back electricity use. Columbus, Ohio, has shut off street lights and increased night police patrols.
Another similarity is the health and welfare fund issue. In 1946, President Truman expressed doubts about the legality of a UMW demand that such a fund be financed by royalties on each ton of coal.
The proposal was adopted, but today the union has found its health and retirement
funds weakened by inflation and by wildcat strikes, which have reduced the royalties the operators paid in.
HEALTH BENEFITS were cut last July 1 and stopped when the strike began Dec. 6. Many retired miners received their last pension checks in January.
UMW President Arnold Miller's chief demand in the current strike has been restoration of full health and pension benefits. He said tentative agreement had been reached with the unions' guarantee of the payments. It includes a payback clause requiring miners who took part in unauthorized strikes to reimburse the funds for lost royalties. But it also implies an reimbursement if the union can prove that management caused the wildcat strike.
**WILE THE two sides are reported in virtual agreement on the health and retirement benefits, they remained far apart on wages an. other economic issues. The two groups met Friday off Sunday, and federal mediators were reported trying to get talks restarted.
The terms under discussion when negotiations broke off have not been made public, but a previous company proposal would allow the union to borrow from $ 2.50 to $ 7.00 an hour, by $ 1.53 over 40 months. Sources familiar with the talks said the union's current proposals would bring a 44 percent increase in labor costs and would bring an "increase of about 32 percent."
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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - President Anwar Sadat had satud with an American mediator Alfred Atheton yesterday to lay the groundwork for summit talks in Washington, which Egyptian sources said was "real" to keeping the peace process alive.
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The meeting in Sadat's Nileside village in Giza "provided the opportunity for a broad review of a full range of issues" that the Egyptian leader will be discussing with President Jimmy Carter this weekend, an American spokesman said.
Atherton, the U.S. assistant secretary of state, who picked up the threads of negotiations after the Israeli-Egyptian political talks in Jerusalem unraveled Jan. 18, brought what be called "new ideas" from Israel for Egyptian inspection.
BUT THE proposals have gotten a cool reception from the Egyptians who said the plan was bad for them.
Carter said a Mideast settlement should be based on establishing normal relations between the Arab states and Israel, Israeli officials said. The Palestinians in determining their future.
"At this stage, and after seeing the written ideas from Israel brought by Atherton, we can still say the gap is quite wide," one Foreign Ministry official said.
"It is vital that we make some progress when Satad goes to Washington," one Egyptian source said. "I don't know what will happen if we don't."
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