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DATE: SUNDAY, April 29, 1990                   TAG: 9004300441
SECTION: THUNDER IN THE COALFIELDS                    PAGE: 15   EDITION: METRO 
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#16 PHOTOS BY DON PETERSEN.

Some coal miners can quote from their union contracts the way they do from the Bible. Above, Joseph Brummett, Cleveland Combs and Radfert Rhea (left to right) talk over a copy of the proposed contract. Many miners grumbled about the flexible work schedules the union had agreed to. Nevertheless, the union miners ratified the contract Feb. 19, 1990, although the 2-to-1 margin was closer than expected. But union members were all smiles the next day when UMW Vice President Cecil Roberts (at right, in suit) announced the 11-month-old strike was over. B&W. 


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