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...unionization of all the soft coal mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, part of Kentucky.- Offshoot of the NRA coal code, the agreement prescribed conditions of labor for some 314,000 diggers in hitherto non-union mines. It gave United Mine Workers their own checkweightmen, their own grievance committees, freed them from the necessity of living in company houses, trading at company stores, opened new jobs now held by some 6,000 boys under 17. Out of it operators got the assurance that there would not be another bituminous coal strike at least until April...
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