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Cover of The failure of refuse dams on Middle Fork, Buffalo Creek, part I of II. An engineering survey of representative coal mine refuse piles as related to the Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, disaster. U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor, May 1972. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3H70CRK
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Cover of The failure of refuse dams on Middle Fork, Buffalo Creek, part I of II. An engineering survey of representative coal mine refuse piles as related to the Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, disaster. U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor, May 1972.RUcore: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3H70CRK

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TitleCover of The failure of refuse dams on Middle Fork, Buffalo Creek, part I of II. An engineering survey of representative coal mine refuse piles as related to the Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, disaster. U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor, May 1972.
Date Issued1972-05
SubjectWilliams, Harrison A., Jr., 1919-2001
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3H70CRK
LanguageEnglish
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Type: Exhibition section
Name: Labor
Detail: "I certainly will do everything I can to push for more and better laws to protect the working man who is the backbone of our country." Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Remarks before the N.J. State AFL-CIO Legislative Conference, 24 March 1969.

With education positioning more Americans to be gainfully employed and more sophisticated participants in the nation's economy, it was essential that workplace practices be modified to support the Great Society's social goals. Williams sponsored legislation throughout his career aimed at ensuring justice for Americans in employment matters. Traditional practices of employment discrimination based on age, sex, race, and other factors were outlawed. Exploitative or abusive workplace practices were at least mitigated through legislation establishing minimum wages, occupational safety and health standards, and private pension protections. Williams advocated an active role for the federal government—via program and project funding and regulation—in ensuring that these broad social goals were accomplished within the essential framework of private enterprise. In response to cyclical economic downturns, government spending on projects and public employment were viewed as correctives and as productive alternatives to direct welfare payments.
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Detail: Though mine safety legislation was passed in 1969, mine disasters continued to occur, including those at Sunshine Silver Mine in Idaho where 91 men were killed in an underground fire and Scotia mine in Kentucky where 26 died in an explosion. In 1972, 125 residents were killed in a flood at Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, when a dam built of mine refuse collapsed. Investigations of the various tragedies indicated that strengthened enforcement of the laws was needed, leading to the 1977 passage of Williams's Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act. This act was the last significant mine safety legislation for 30 years, until the law was amended in 2006 in response to the Sago Mine and other disasters of that year.
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Type: Finding aid
Name: Inventory to the Papers of Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
Detail: Finding aid provides description of materials in the Harrison A. Williams collection
CollectionCrossroads: Harrison A. Williams, Jr. and Great Society Liberalism, 1959-1981
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections
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