For the past year, the once monolithic United Mine Workers union has rumbled with unrest. Dismayed by their leaders' cozy ties with the coal industry and angered by their seeming indifference to health and safety problems, miners in West Virginia walked off their jobs last winter in an unauthorized strike that supported legislation to compensate them for "black lung" ailments. Last week the rebellion moved into a new phase when Joseph A. ("Jock") Yablonski won the first round of his fight to oust W. A. ("Tony") Boyle, 64, from the $50,000-a-year U.M.W....
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