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Consolidation Coal Continental Oil 64.9 Appalachia, Midwest Island Creek Coal Occidental Petroleum 22.6 Appalachia Clinchfield Coal Pittston 20.6 Appalachia Amax Coal American Metal Climax...
...them consistently account for almost half of the nation's production. Four are owned by large metals manufacturers, which are skilled at mining and shipping ores and use much coal in their smelters and blast furnaces. Four others are owned by oil or gas companies. Another, Clinchfield, is owned by Pittston Co., which also has oil interests. Only one of the Big Ten, North American Coal, is independent...
...been sent to bituminous operators asking if they would attend a discussion with workers in the near future. Three weeks prior Secretary Lamont had summoned a dozen of the big bituminous operators to a conference in the Department of Commerce. For four hours representatives of such coal concerns as Clinchfield, Consolidation, Union Pacific and Pittsburgh sat in what was described as "a free and frank interchange of opinion and data." They decided nothing except that they would not yield to the miners, that they were opposed to summoning a national conference for airing the industry's ailments...
...months ago workers were organized by A. F. of L. agents in the cotton mill of Marion Manufacturing Co., owned by Spinster Sallie Baldwin of Baltimore. When the union hands struck, the mill closed down. Unionization spread to the mills of the Clinchfield Co. which also shut down temporarily. When Clinchfield tried to reopen, strikers massed before the gates, manhandled the superintendent. Guardsmen were sent in to restore order. Mill owners commenced to eject union strikers from company houses...
Declared President B. M. Hart of the Clinchfield Mill: "I will meet only with my own employes. I cannot see that there is any difference between this so-called conservative union and the Communist union at Gastonia. They act alike...