
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 29, 1990                   TAG: 9004300452
SECTION: THUNDER IN THE COALFIELDS                    PAGE: 14   EDITION: METRO 
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#13 PHOTOS BY DON PETERSEN.

The strike was a family affair. Children were often as commonplace as camouflage. At top, Buford Mullins of Clinchco holds his 3-year-old son, Joshua, aloft for a better view of Jesse Jackson at an April rally in Wise County. Meanwhile, a little girl shows off her feelings with a homemade sign at a rally at the Moss 3 coal preparation plant near Carbo. Women were often among the loudest hecklers on the picket line. Edna Sauls (in center of photo, with T-shirt) leads this group in jeering replacement workers driving coal trucks.

Finally, UMW Vice President Cecil Roberts (bottom photo) moved to the coalfields in mid-summer to take personal charge of the strike. The presence of such a high-ranking union official on the picket line became another rallying point as the strike dragged on. color.

by CNB