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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 2, 1990                   TAG: 9005020252
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By PAUL DELLINGER SOUTHWEST
DATELINE: CASTLEWOOD                                LENGTH: Short

STUMP GIVES UP UMW POSITION/ LOWE APPOINTED DISTRICT 28 PRESIDENT

Jackie Stump is stepping down as president of the Southwest Virginia district of the United Mine Workers to devote more time to his legislative duties as a member of the House of Delegates.

He will be succeeded by Donnie Lowe, a UMW field district representative since 1987. Lowe, 39, was named by the District 28 board to complete Stump's term, which expires June 1, 1991.

Stump will remain on the union's international executive board.

Stump was elected to the General Assembly in November as an independent write-in candidate, defeating Del. Donald A. McGlothlin Sr., D-Grundy, a senior member of the Southwest Virginia delegation. McGlothlin had served in the House since 1968.

With union backing, Stump easily won the seat covering Buchanan County and part of Tazewell County. McGlothlin's son, a circuit judge, had angered the union by imposing massive fines for violating court injunctions during the UMW's 10 1/2-month strike against Pittston Coal.

The day after the election, Stump said he might have to step down as District 28 president but had made no announcement until now.

Lowe, a Tazewell County native, was on the district executive board for four years, starting in 1983. He represented rank-and-file miners.

"My main priority is to try and get a contract for those members who are still on strike," Lowe said Tuesday. Several hundred UMW members working for Pittston subcontractors still have not gotten a new contract.

by CNB