Word: appalachians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After the business of the meeting was dispensed with, Winthrop Porter of the Appalachian Mountain Club showed the group movies...
Lewis has been fighting for a union-shop contract in the captive mines. The steel companies had not been parties to the Appalachian agreement (which provided for a union shop), though many another captive-mine operator had signed, along with the commercial miners in the Appalachian district. Lewis threatened to strike the steel companies' mines a month ago. At the request of the National Defense Mediation Board, he agreed to a 30-day truce while the board tried to work out a formula for peace...
...union's first real chance came with the passage of the Wagner Act. Last summer John Lewis, head of U.M.W., got Harlan County operators to go along with the rest of the operators in the Southern Appalachian Association in agreeing to U.M.W. terms. Last week, with the signing of a contract which not only permitted but required some 12,000 miners in the district to join Bill Turnblazer's and John Lewis' union, victory was sealed. Observers hoped that peace, not just a truce, had come to Harlan County...
...intricate in fact, that the radio announcer stated to the outside world that the band was representing the state of Pennsylvania, complete with the Schuylkill River and the Appalachian Mountains within the State's borders...
...only large group of older Americans which is doing more than reproducing itself is the Appalachian-Ozark hillbilly farmer, or his neighbor in the Piedmont." So sociologists were told last week at University of New Hampshire, by one of their number who had an interesting theory to propound. Discussing the "Second Colonization of New England" (by Irish, French-Canadians and South and East European immigrants since 1840), Harvard's Carle Clark Zimmerman explained why old New England stock could not survive the melting pot. Some of his points...