West Virginia coal conference spotlights women miners gains
More than 100 people attended the first conference on women in the coal mining industry at West Virginia State College in Institute. Panels and workshops covered employment equity, union rights, minority unity, pregnancy antidiscrimination law, and how to use UMWA grievance procedures. Participants hailed improved organizing and support networks for women in mining.
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West Virginia State College
Betty Jean Hall
Laurie Thrasher
Association of Women In Industry
Alabama
Dot Rivera
United Miner Workers of America
Kaiser Aluminum
United
Paulette Shrine
West Virginia
UMWA
Betty Justice
Pennsylvania
Marjorie Myerick
Mary Zins
Umwa District 5
Coal Mining Women’s Support Team
CWST
Umwa International Executive Board
Miami
Fla
ERA
Cynthia Hawkins
Weber
Barbara Angle
Rinker
Karen Kaplan
Daily Telegraph
Institute
Coal Mining Women's Support Team
Council On Appalachian Women, Inc
Right To
Women Miners Seek UMWA Caucus at First Conference
Women from Coal Mining groups gathered at the Institute conference to push for an official United Mine Workers of America women’s caucus. Roseanna Lane urged internal lobbying, higher female hiring, and a quota. fears grew over Consol’s split with BCOA and potential erosion of UMWA bargaining power.
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Miss Lane
Congress
UMWA
Consolidated Coal Company
Bituminous Coal Operators of America
Consol
BCOA
Sinc
Bituminous Coal Operators of
America
Mercer County Announces Summer Bus Schedules
A tentative Mercer County summer school bus plan lists routes serving Princeton High School Bluefield High School and others from June 13 to July 31. Enrollment requires 20 per class with fees 40 per class plus 2 for textbooks. Routes include Athens Princeton Bluefield Matoaka Montcalm Bramwell Oakvale and surrounding areas with multiple daily pickup and drop times.
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Mercer County
Harold Lytton
Princeton High School
Bluefield High School
George Erps
Bluefield High
George Keatley
Princeton High
Jack Martin
Athens
Ward White
Princeton
Paul Wagner
Bluefield
Harvey Johnson
John Craft
Matoaka
Rock and Spanishburg
Billy Hill
Montcalm and Bramwell
Robert Vaughan
Oakvale
Pisgah
Pine Grove
Lerona
Melrose
North View Grocery
Thorn
Mercer County Vocational-Technical School
Green Tree
Willowbrook
Bethel Road
Lilly Grove
Silver Springs
Park School
Makeamatchat
Littlesburg
Airport Road
Brushfork
Midway
Bluefield Avenue
Princeton Avenue
Ada Road
Glenwood
Spanishburg
Springton
Lashmeet
Kegley
Hollywood
Fink's
Pinnacle Rock
Freeman
Bramwell
Coopers
Wolfe
Nemours
Kirby
New Hope Road
Willowton
Kellys Tank
Kellysville
Pigeon Creek
Oakvale School
Goodwin
Bull's Eye
Hardy
Halls Ridge
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Steelworkers of America
Steve Shapiro
Ilona Girsh
United Steelworkers
Minnesota
MWA
Carol Edelson
Jerry Gordon
District 2
Deabmneted Meatcutters Union
Virginia Labor For
Clare Frenzel
David Moe
Umwa Research Department
District 31
Morgantown
Country
New Mexico
Kentucky
W.v
Wheat First Securities
Stock Exchange
First Securities
Alfred E. Garrett
Bland Street
W.va
United Mine Workers
Roseanna Lane
The
Tirees
Mercer
Bigelow
Philadelphia
Evans
Black
Armstrong
Murphy’s Carpet Marts
Fairview Junior High
Whitethorn School
Cumberland Road
Grassy Branch
DuPont
Saxony
Mercer ST
Murphy’s Carpet Marts, Inc
Shelton-Witt
Komatsu
Clark
Liebherr
Shelton -Witt
Onyee
Roberts
Ameli's Department Store
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