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Tape 16-1, Page 27

AV: Yeah, yeah.

JS: How they cheated the miners. They cheated them every way. And they're doin'
it yet. Where the hell do you see a man worth a hundredthousand dollar's salary?
That's too much money for doin' nothin'. you're not doin' nothin. Like they're
all millionaires, ove the earlier, takin' the miners' money

Like now, take this here r[??????}on the coal. When this come into effect,
we won it by a strike. We were out on strike to make a new contract.

AV: When?

JS: Way back when they started this cut off. And, ah, the company, well then
they agreed they would give us that there pension, you know. So finally
what they done was this: the coal operators, they raised the coal one dollar,
that was, the public pays that dollar. Every time you buy a ton of coal,
you're payin' one dollar towards this pension. And what the hell, they were
collectin' the money, the company. Well, they weren't payin' it into the
pension fund. They were hold back, there were complanies, lots of companies
were back over millions and thousands and thousands of dollars, and they
weren't payin' 'em back. Now they took it into courts, and they finally
got money back. But what the hell, it didn't do the men any good. They
didn't give nothin' to us. Nobody got nothin'.
that's all. So, compnay used to get a quarter out of it, and seventy-five
cents went into the pension fund. But that wasn't goin' in, because the
company, I guess, was in partners with the union officials and they were
splittin' between theirselves that money, and they weren't puttin' it
there. So, no when they went into courts about it, well they, they won
the cases. BVut it didn't do the men any bood, because they
Well, we get thrity dollars a month. For the richest union in the country.
The most money in the country. Well, take this, like Tony Boyle, he's the
president of the miners. Huh! He's gettin' a hundred thousand dollars a