To Work--Or Not To Work? Carter invokes Taft-Hartley, but the miners vow they won't obey it.

The article offers information on the labor rally of 165,000 coal miners in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1978. Monsignor Charles Rice offered an earnest prayer to the miners, where his words perfectly reflected the own mood of the miners in the long, three-month strike. Opposing the miner, in a classic confrontation that noted his first major domestic crisis, endured President Jimmy Carter and the forces of authority at his command. The Taft-Hartley Act, which was last used against the International Longshoremen's Association in 1971, demands the United Mine Workers of America to get back to work for an 80-day cooling-off period.