Massey (Coal mining) memo causes concern

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http://www.news-expressky.com/articles/2006/02/24/news/01massey.txt

Massey memo causes concern

BY RACHEL C. STANLEY

EDITOR

A leaked Massey Energy memo is creating a stir in the coal mining community.

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It states, “If any of you have been asked by your group presidents, your supervisors, engineers or anyone else to do anything other than run coal (i.e. - build overcasts, do construction jobs, or whatever) you need to ignore them and run coal. This memo is necessary only because we seem not to understand that the coal pays the bills.”

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“Anybody that's worked underground knows that you have overcasts built to have the proper air,” Smith said. “That's a very serious safety issue.”

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1. Don Blankenship thinks as much of a worker

as he does a machine, perhaps less. Machines are expensive. Workers are a dime a dozen.

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2. Now he wants even cheaper workers from Mexico.

Where they can be had for a dime a gross.

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3. A great line about imported miners

from the movie "Matewan:"

"An' they been dyin' like flies down in that hole." In reference to Italian immigrants brought in to work the mines in Mingo County in the early 20th century.

The Mexicans will die the same way, not that it will cost Don Blankenship any sleep.

He's not human. He's a science fiction GreedMonster.