West Virginia hunters brace for busy season amid strong game reports
West Virginia prepares for hunting season as 136,399 licenses issued, lagging 13,000 behind 1976. DNR official Sue Taylor cites winter patterns and eager buyers. squirrel populations rise in eastern regions, grouse brood reports show improvement, merchants stock shells jackets and boots as hunters anticipate peak weeks.
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Powell assails National Labor Relations Act at Dunbar talk
West Virginia labor leader Joseph W. Powell blasted the 1935 act as weak, saying amendments in 1947 and 1958 undermine its goals. He cited long delays in employee elections and Negotiate in bad faith by companies in the Kanawha Valley as evidence of the law’s failure to ensure orderly labor relations.
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UPI
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Coal miner-lawyer cannot get a job
Bruce Boyens a 31 year old coal miner and lawyer in Cabin Creek hollow West Virginia faced employment obstacles after his union activism. He joined mining in 1975 to understand miners' lives, later losing a job with Armco after seeking leave for union activity and a 1973 law license.
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UPI
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Charleston
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Mingo County
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Longwall
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Armco
Wartime traits urged to tackle coal strike crisis
Former Rep. Ken Hechler told the 40th Combat Engineer Regiment at a Charleston hotel that wartime leadership traits are needed to confront the 10 week coal strike. He urged leaders to allocate funds to UMW health benefits and levy a small miner assessment while pressing UMW to discipline back-to-work defiance.
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New breed of miner challenges UMW leadership in Appalachia
Cecil E. Roberts, 30, District 17 vice president, leads a rising cohort of young, educated miners in southern West Virginia while national energy demand grows. They threaten traditional union dominance as nonunion western mines attract members with higher pay and benefits, challenging Arnold R. Miller and the aging union leadership. Roberts recalls mining dangers and a Vietnam veteran’s path to college, arguing the younger generation is more confident and strategic about labor.
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