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<UL><P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>Michael Eisenscher wrote:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>>Mine, Mill is perhaps best remembered as the union featured in "Salt of the</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>>Earth."</FONT>
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<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">/snip/</FONT>
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<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Doug Henwood wrote:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>Local 598 is the only remaining shred of Mine Mill; it represents the</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>miners who work for Falconbridge; the other big miner in town, Inco, is</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>organized by the Steelworkers. 598 was recently re-admitted to the Canadian</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>Labour Congress. It's pretty weakened now, but they still have a Joe Hill</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>hall, and were able to bring Falconbridge to its knees last year with a</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>3-week strike. When I asked the local president how come the company didn't</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>take the American route & hire scabs, he said they wouldn't dare, there'd</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>have been bloodshed.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>Doug</FONT>
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<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[Jordan Berger] I believe that Local 598 has now been absorbed by the Canadian Auto Workers.</FONT>
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