UMW Threatens Shutdown If Black Lung Benefits Are Cut
United Mine Workers warn of a coalfield strike if Reagan cuts black lung pensions for disabled miners. UMW leaders accuse administration of gutting the program while Illinois lawmakers predict mixed reactions as Congress weighs proposed eligibility changes and budgets.
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Southern Illinoisan
Associated Press
United Mine Workers Union
Reagan
UMW
Sam Church
Gerald Hawkins
Illinois
Congress
Paul Simon
House
Church
White House
Simon
House Education and Labor Committee
House Budget Committee
Miners outline Illinois legislative agenda for coal sector
About 200 United Mine Workers locals met in Springfield to map a two day program of action. Proposals include adjusting the federal Clean Air Act to boost Illinois coal markets, moratorium on new nuclear plants, trimming transportation cost pass through, limiting state coal research to Illinois or Midwestern coal, and a reapportionment map favorable to labor. Governor Thompson cited federal environmental rules as a major issue. Rep. James Rea urged rolling back rules and supported halting nuclear plant construction. Tom Twomey urged backing a March 28 rally in Harrisburg to spotlight nuclear power problems. He warned of strained ties with the Reagan administration over mining appointments.
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Don Levener
Springfield
Illinois
United Mine Workers
James R. Thompson
Thompson
James Rea
Christopher
Rea
Tom Twomey
Union
National Political Action Committee
Harrisburg
Twomey
Reagan
UMWA
Arts and humanities face 50 percent budget cuts
Federal promoters of arts and humanities face a 50 percent funding reduction under Reagan plans. National Endowment for the Humanities chair Joseph Duffey and National Endowment for the Arts chair Livingston Biddle Jr. warn of painful cuts to grants for historians libraries theaters poets painters and other cultural programs as Congress must decide the fiscal 1982 budget.
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Washington
Joseph D. Duffey
National Endowment For the Humanities
Livingston L. Biddle Jr
National Endowment For the Arts
Biddle
National Council On the Arts
Reactions vary among poor elderly to Reagan speech
Reactions from consumer advocates, poor and elderly in Southern Illinois to President Reagan's economic address ranged widely. Milton Maxwell, chairman of the Attacks Community Services Board, warned that tax cuts may hurt the poor while helping the upper middle class, and questioned the logic of saving deficits on the backs of the needy. Seventy nine year old Paul Houghton praised the speech as wonderful, urged radical spending cuts, and hoped aid would go to those who need it, while noting potential Medicaid limits. He trusts Medicare will be preserved and argued many food stamp abuses could be cut, pointing to his roles with retired educators and seniors groups. Steve Banker of SCAM cautioned it may be early to judge outcomes, noting Southern Illinois' tax dependence and highlighting deregulation of natural gas as a key issue.
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Reagan
Hawkins
Government Accounting Office
Illinois
Taylor Pensoneau
Illinois Coal Association
Pensoneau
Congress
Southern
Paul Houghton
Marion
Houghton
Ilinois
National Retired Teachers Association
American Association of Retired Persons
Steve Banker
Southern Counties Action Movement
Banker
GNP gain revised lower from earlier estimate
The Commerce Department records show real GNP rose about 4 percent in Q4 1980, down from the 5 percent preliminary figure. 1980 annual GNP fell about 0.1 percent, the same as previously announced, with higher consumer spending but lower business investment, net exports, and government purchases than first thought.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Salem may lose Sportline plant over buyer search
The City of Salem faces the loss of Homemaker-Sportline Inc a Beatrice Foods division unless a buyer is found to keep the plant operating Roy Haney met with Salem Mayor McMack and warned liquidation is likely if no buyer emerges risking 25 jobs and over 1 million dollars in annual payroll Sportline manufactures sleeping bags comforters and slumber bags
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Salem
Homemaker
Sportline, Inc
Beatrice Foods
Sportline
Roy Haney
Charles McMack
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