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Show Wednesday, May 30, 1979 Price, Utah Sun Advocate, 9 o Miners meet (continued from pa hi I the meeting. Helper and Price miners, mostly retired, At spoke out on housing, cost of living and insufficient pensions. The commission also posed questions such as, how do you think the industry has changed in the last 50 years, do people still think of the miner as cheap ignorant labor, do the youth realize the hardships of earlier mining days in Utah? Quickly replies were sparked from the group of over 30s. I think I lived a lot better in the old days than we do now, shouted Frank Massa, a retired miner from Helper. Everything didnt cost so much much and I didnt have to worry about credit card's, s. John Costello, local chairman for retired miners, expressed the general consensus that most all mines are much safer than in because at the old days, modern Many of the retired miners who attended the meeting, brought together by members of the President's Commission on Coal, freely expressed views on changes in mining and the miners lifestyle over the past 50 years. machinery and techniques. However, because of modernization of the mining industry, miners are being regarded as Photo by Gordon UmbourM professinonals in what they do, not ignorant cheap labor, said one John Bruno, a retired miner from Helper, sits listening with interest to the comments being made by fellow retired miners at a special participant. What bothers me the most held in the Helper Civic Auditorium. about how it used to be and the meeting way it is now, said Massa, is that there is no friendship beAssociation and the National tween the miners like there used Independent Coal Operators be. These young miners wont Association. talk to you and, by God, anyone who isnt on a pension doesnt Judy Rabinovitz, a journalist even want to know your name from New York who does because they think theyre paying recording for the team, said the your way. group will visit union and non In the old days when all the union mines to conduct interviews miners lived in one camp, with a randomly selected group of everyone knew everybody and there was always somebody to help out if you had any problems, Massa concluded. Team supervisor, Ron McMahan, a sociologist and specialist in ethnography, ended the meeting, encouraging the retired miners to get in touch with the commission if they felt they had anything further to contribute to the report. The Comission will submit a report on its findings to President Carter by December 14, 1979, after completing a tour of as & -- mines many information as she can from a retired miner who tells of living conditions in the old mining camps throughout Southeast Utah. journalist from who does most of the recording for the group of three, persues questions to get as much Judy New York, Child ... and and Family will be held at Jordan Valley School in Midvale on June 1, 1979. May 30-3- 1, social sector, the educational arena, and the family It vironment. en- - will be Young registration and the College credit, contact the University, Brigham Eastern Utah, the Utah Office of Child University of Utah, Development or the university Utah State University, of your college Weber State College, of (533-532- Utah Council for Handicapped Developmentally, and Dis-th- and Co - DOESN'T PAY... YOU INK 5 East Carbon Supracide Off m a new wig when you trade in your old one LADY STOPJ 39 W. "" r Uhx. 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