Word: antis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final recommendations of the Senate investigators, President Coolidge reiterated his opinion that the seat of trouble in the bituminous coal industry is too many mines and too many miners. He agreed with Senators Gooding and Wheeler, Miner John L. Lewis and many an operator, that amendment of the anti-trust laws will probably be necessary to let the operators make agreements in salutory restraint of their own trade-but not until miners and operators shall have reached production agreements among themselves...
Police brutality, onerous anti-picketing injunctions, and the breakdown of the Jacksonville agreement were the burden of Mr. Lewis' tale which rambled somewhat under stress of emotion. President Coolidge's letter to Mr. Lewis in December 1925, was read into the record deploring "the breaking of any contract," explaining why the U. S. could not intervene, referring the miners to the courts, pronouncing collective bargaining to be "a principle now accepted in American life." Mr. Lewis repeated the miners' charge that railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, had thumbscrewed the mine operators into thumbscrewing the miners. The names "Rockefeller...
Remedies. Senator Gooding and Miner Lewis seemed agreed that the legislation required was amendment of the anti-trust laws to permit the operators to consolidate. Miner Lewis also asked an Interstate Commerce Act amendment to prevent railroads from crushing operators and miners alike, by coal price depression...
...Zaghlul, widow of the great anti-British statesman Zaghlul Pasha (1860-1927), was active at Cairo last week in checking ill-timed anti-British riots by Members of his party, the Wafd. She and servants played a fire hose on certain rioters. Others, unchecked, lost their heads so completely that they mistook for an Englishman and attacked the Principal of the American College outside of Cairo, Dr. Charles P. Russel of Hastings, Neb. At him was thrown acid which burned him, though not dangerously...
...question of Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court. In the history of this country more than one contentious law has been thoroughly reinterpreted by a new court which has changed in membership. Should Smith, by any chance, have the opportunity to appoint five members of the Supreme Court, the Anti-Saloon League would have good cause for worry...