Will do some more checking on this. Somewhere in my bookshelves or plastic milk carton files I have a publication of Thurber Historical Society of Stephenville. It has a photo of a young John L. Lewis at a table with negotiators. He was at his first Coal strike and it killed the town and closed the shaft mines and brick plant. The railroad grades and cone shaped slag or tailings piles 2 to 3 times as tall as the trees by each mine shaft, still open, are silent testimonies of labor not recognizing changing technology.and the oil fields promising more jobs . Now we have not our oil jobs and the Ponca City Okla. refinery and others to the Middle east and capped high producing wells at home which cannot be reopened- a new one must be drilled at a much higher cost. It makes sense to international business politicians, I guess. These tailing piles are visible from I-20- no grass or trees grow on them. One of my friends (I was not there) said he was climbing a tailings pile and his class ring fell off and rolled and bounced into one of the open shafts. 1900 wiring and coal cars are still in the mines as reported by uranium searchers. Tools are down there. One body with no ID was found in one shaft. Hey, his name couldn't have changed to the Geriks of West and Cameron, Texas, could it? Some of the Czechs and Slovaks in West had roots in Thurber and Newcastle and one Oklahoma mining town This explains the town of Yukon near OKC which Czech festivals. One OK town serves Czech pastries daily as West does. Check you later, Charles Wyly On Mon, 08 Feb 1999 06:56:11 -0600 "Frances M. Farley" <farleys@wf.net> writes: >Mr Wyly, > >I was told that my grandfather, Jacob Galik, helped with the >negotiations for the 1903 coal strike. Do you know were I could get >information on the strike? I believe the newspaper listed Grandpa as >Jack Garlick. > >Thank you.. >Frances Farley > > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]