American miners fight Carter | IMGpapers 1976

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ARTHER SCARGIL. the -President of the disease.

labour movement.

killed and hundreds arrested.

authority of the capitalist class as a whole. It is!

Now they are going to stand up and fight.

-Donald Lawley, United Mine Workers Executive board member. *My responsibility is to protect the health and safety of the nation. That was Jimmy Carter's excuse for Invoking the Taft-Hartley Act against the three month US miner's strike.

The Act requires strikers to go back to work for an 80-day "cooling-off period'. If they don't they will lose all welfare benefits and face federal occupation of the mines.

Whose health and whose safety?

Last year 125 miners were killed in pit accidents and 4000 died from black lung Us pits are hell holes. Private capitalist mine bosses hold even the present scanty safety laws in contempt.

And last summer they cutoffall payments to the miners* health benefit fund. Now the bosses are trying to take away the right to strike over safety violations.

That's what the strike is about, that's why the miners overwhelmingly rejected the treacherous contract agreed by Carter and their union leaders, and that's why most miners have no intention of abiding by the Taft-Hartley Act.

Forthem it's a matter of life and death. Literally.

If the past three months are anything to go by they can count on considerable backing from other sections of the And they can also count on violent attacks from the scabs. security guards and cops. Already two pickets have been Sadly, they are unlikely to be the only casualties since Carter sees the strike as an affront to his authority and the It'san indication that after long years of passivity and betrayal by the union leaders US workers have had enough.

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