Unions may be S. African catalyst

There is bloodshed around some of the pits of "black gold,"meaning coal; and terrible violence and meanness around mines loadedwith real gold - all because some 340,000 black miners have gone onstrike in South Africa.

Still, these are golden days for the black majority in the landof apartheid. Simply because this strike is setting an example ofunity and determination that oppressed South African blacks have notshown before. And especially because these black laborers haveillustrated that they have the capacity to wound severely theindustries that have for generations given the white minority aremarkably high standard of living, and thus helped to secure thepower of …