Mine widows left with nothing

[wallybarron]

W.Va. breaks its benefits-for-life promise


By Paul J. Nyden
Staff writer

After Eudell Dickerson died in 1999 from a roof fall in a Clay County coal mine, his widow, Diana, was promised Workers’ Compensation benefits “for the remainder of her life or until you remarry.”

Following Wetzel John Grubb’s death from asbestosis in 2001, exactly the same promise was made to Sherry, his widow.


http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2006021121

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Did you say Baldwin Felts was the contractor?

Medieval West Virginia

http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvcoal/essays/med2.htm

The coal operators in Wv have always hated the coal miner's family.