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Discusses the emergence of West Virginia-based reform organization Miners for Democracy and the considerable support being drawn by its reform candidates from large working mines. Threat posed by Miners for Democracy against Tony Boyle's United Mine Workers machine; Foundation of the organization after the 1969 murder of Joseph Yablonski, a union leader who campaigned against Boyle; Chance of the Miners for Democracy candidates to win the court-ordered election; Aspects of the insurgent campaign; Court decision that set aside the 1969 election of Boyle; Extraordinary acts of Boyle's union career.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu disagreed with former U.S. vice president Hubert Humphrey regarding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam. U.S. President Richard M. Nixon has nominated judge G. Harrold Carswell to serve as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested three men for the murder of labor leader Joseph Yablonski.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. The steel company U.S. Steel Corporation has refused to comply with anti-pollution regulations. Attorney Joseph L. Rauh Jr. has suggested supporters of labor leader Joseph Yablonski were threatened prior to his murder. A majority of children of U.S. Congress members have received deferments from military service in Vietnam.

Reports on the tactics allegedly used by the camp of incumbent United Mine Workers of America (UMW) president, Tony Boyle, to prevent challenger Joseph Yablonski from winning the union election. Allegation that the UMW leadership has lost contact with the rank-and-file; Plans of Yablonski to improve the lives of the mine workers; Amount given to the widows of mine workers who get killed in the mines; Smear campaign and physical assault experienced by Yablonski while campaigning for the union presidency; Allegation that Boyle is financing his campaign with money from the rank-and-file miners; Laws providing the Department of Labor with powers to intervene in union elections; Reasons why mining companies are supportive of Boyle's candidacy.