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50,000 Coal Workers Idle In Eight States
From Pittsburgh to West Virginia and Kentucky, about 50,000 miners walked off the job in a mass strike over a soft coal contract. UMW leaders submitted a BOCA proposal, but BOCA rejected it as insufficient. Talks resumed in Washington with Southern Coal Producers joining management. Wives on picket lines at Beckley helped deter some miners from returning to work.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Mine
West Virginia
UMW
BE Oilers
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Boca Play
Ber
Eabody Coal Co
St Louis
BCOA
Peabody
Booa
Washington
Southern Coal Prinices Assoration
Southern Group
Kentucky
Midwest
South
Appalachia
Beckley
Wo Va
New River
Bob Voelker
jMrecking
Peabody Coal Co
St .Louis