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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Thursday, October 13, 1960
Reporter Tells What Effect Five And One-Half Month Strike Has Had On Idaho Mining Town
By KEN JACKSON
KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) The
hills that rise steeply above town
are green this year really green
for the first time in the memory
of most residents.
For since early May there has
been no gray smoke rising from
the mills and smelters. These pro
cessing giants lie asleep, the town
withers and the hillsides bloom.
"Sorry, we can't issue syrup
this week," reads the sign in the
strike store. "Bring your gunny
sacks for spuds."
Outside there is a sound of
laughter as a new car, gleaming
with a professional polish and
loaded with well-dressed young
sters, rolls by en route to a foot
ball game.
This is Kellogg-smothering un
der the blanket of a 5',4-month
strike but still a community of
contrasts. Poverty with pockets of
prosperity.
This is a community that lost a
million dollar a month payroll but
where a roller skating rink in sub
urban Smelterville just opened to
capacity crowds.
Where . miners who haven't
signed a paycheck in nearly half
a year still drive the few blocks
to pick up their small box of
staples from the strike relief
store. Where stores and bars are
often deserted on Saturdays, but
streets crowded with cars.
Where nearly 2,700 workers
were directly ' idled by the long
strikes against Bunker Hill and
American Smelting and Refining
companies, but credit buying is
estimated as up two to three
times.
Where neighbor sometimes be
comes suspicious of neighbor and
one box of groceries separates I
families from hunger but where
there are few incidents and little I
crime. !
"You lust don't curl up and die
because of the strike," said a
housewife.
"You have to keep living as
best you can."
Kellogg is no stranger to strikes
and strife.
As in other" Western mining
towns, the early days were lusty
even bloody. Disputes were settled
with fists and pick handles. The
strong survived.
The struggles were violent and
the wounds deep, but they always
healed in the past although the
pain often remained. And the
community always gained back
Its strength and became even
healthier than before.
But now "denressed" Is the fa
vorite adjective used to describe
the lead-zinc industry in the sun
rirh Cneur d'Alene mining district,
The same word can be used for
many of the residents.
They remember that just a few
years ago the "16 operators"
were balanced in the same son-
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And the AS&R has informed Its
striking employes that "shut
down expense because of the
strike may force the company to
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or properties." Considered among
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Page Mine, a lead-zinc producer
that was showing a loss even be
fore the strike and is considered
a stronghold of the controversial
striking International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
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Doubts about the district arc
also reflected by departures. More
than 750 have left the community
since the strike, with utilities shut
off at 200 residences. There were
533 fewer pupils enrolled in School
District 391 this year.
Superintendent Howard Andrews
said the hot lunch program wasn't
started this fall when a survey
showed that 377 children, or about
28 per cent of those in school,
couldn't pay for the meals. The
district didn't feel it could afford
the $78.11 a day it would have
cost to provide free hot lunches
to the needy.
In a community w here folks
were once guarded, almost fear
ful, in their comments they now
are eager to speak their piece on
the strike:
"I just hope my children don't
have to work here and go through
this," said an imhittered miner.
"I've had to learn a lot of new
cooking tricks," said a housewife
who has been feeding her family
of six on staple-heavy supplies
from the Mine-Mill strike relief
store.
"Business is off about 60 per
cent for me." said a storekeeper.
"I can't survive much more of
this yet the union claims this
strike is none of my business."
"The businessmen don't care
what kind of an agreement we go
back to work under," said a young
striker. "They just want us to go
back to work period."
"1 don't really care who wins,"
said the wife of another striker.
"I just want my husband back at
work."
"If the companies think they
can outwait us and get us to come
back on their terms, they've got
another think coming," said a
picket from his shack. "We can
outwait them all."
"Stay around for the excite
ment," said a teenager. "Some
thing's going to pop soon."
Yes, something s going to pop.
i But what?
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