What Organizers Can Learn From a Rank-and-File Coal Miners’ Victory 50 Years Ago

In 1972, labor militants ousted corrupt and entrenched leadership at the mine workers’ union in an unprecedented win.

In December 1972, coal miners rocked the American labor movement by electing three reformers as top officers of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), a union which at the time boasted 200,000 members and a culture of workplace militancy without peer. In national balloting supervised by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Arnold Miller, Mike Trbovich and Harry Patrick ousted an old guard slate...

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