Pittston Coal Co.

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Charleston Gazette; 10/13/2009; 800 words; ...000 homeless. On the morning of Feb. 6, 1972, 132 million gallons of wastewater burst through an overloaded Pittston Coal Co. impoundment dam that four days earlier had been declared satisfactory by a federal mine inspector. After Secretary...

John A. Lawler III, at 75, investment co. president.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
The Boston Herald; 9/19/2009; 693 words; ...sales and fund management with Pittston-Clinchfield Coal Co. in Cleveland. He opened and...Boston offices of McDonald & Co. and Wheat, First Securities...president of Lawler Investment Co. He was a board member and supporter...

Ex-UMW president Church dies
Charleston Gazette; 7/15/2009; 622 words; ...Church was the son of a disabled coal miner and grandson of a coal company superintendent. UMW...mechanic, in 1965 for Clinchfield Coal Co. in southwestern Virginia...strike by 1,700 miners against Pittston Coal that began in April 1999...

Steelworkers Endorse Trumka as AFL-CIO President.
Biotech Week; 7/1/2009; 753 words; ...experiences as a third-generation coal miner, makes him the right person...Trumka followed his father into the coal mine near his home in Nemacolin...successful nine-month strike against the Pittston Coal Co. over its refusal to pay into a...

Steelworkers Endorse Trumka as AFL-CIO President
U.S. Newswire; 6/16/2009; 627 words; ...experiences as a third-generation coal miner, makes him the right person...Trumka followed his father into the coal mine near his home in Nemacolin...successful nine-month strike against the Pittston Coal Co. over its refusal to pay into a...