ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, December 12, 1995 TAG: 9512120029
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
Cecil Roberts, who this month succeeds Richard Trumka as president of the United Mine Workers, has appointed two UMW officials to the union's top leadership.
Roberts, 49, became acting president of the UMW on Oct. 25 after Trumka was elected secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO. Roberts will be inaugurated as the union's 14th president on Dec. 22 at a ceremony in Charleston, W.Va. He will serve out the remainder of Trumka's term, which expires in 1997.
Succeeding Roberts in the post of vice president will be Jerry D. Jones, the union's current secretary-treasurer. Carlo Tarley, a member of the union's policy-making International Executive Board, will succeed Jones as secretary-treasurer.
Roberts, a native of Kayford, W.Va., is a Vietnam veteran and a sixth-generation coal miner. He went to work in the mines in 1971 and was elected president of the UMW's District 17 in West Virginia in 1977. He was elected vice president of the union in 1982 and won a third five-year term in 1992.
Roberts played a key role in the UMW's strike against the Pittston Co. in 1989 and for his efforts was given the Rainbow Coalition's Martin Luther King Jr. award. He has pledged to quickly implement the goals of the union's 51st convention this September, which include a new $1 million per year organizing fund.
Jones, 56, is a native of Franklin County, Ill. Tarley, 48, was born in Four States, W.Va.
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