Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union and International Longshoremen's Association. Most convincing signs of the approach of the chair-warming stage in union development are the 21 long and involved collective agreements which the N. M. U. has concluded for nearly 10,000 of its members. The contracts are mainly with the coal carriers and tankers, including Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Since fall, the union has wrangled unsuccessfully with the deep sea lines...
...National Bituminous Coal Commission reluctantly revoked all the minimum soft coal prices it established only last December...
Iron Fireman Manufacturing Co. of Portland, Ore. makes more automatic coal stokers than any other firm. In the last few years it has grown so big that it no longer has one annual dealers' convention. It has five-one after another, two days apiece, in Cleveland, Manhattan, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Paul. Last week, as the "traveling convention" got under way in Cleveland, 400 dealers were astonished to hear that Iron Fireman, which made $711,000 in 1937 from an uncompromising warfare on oil burners, was going into the oil burner business itself...
...Coal prices to railroads which buy in bulk have always been substantially lower than prices to home owners and other small consumers and a prime conviction of the Coal Commission is that rebate practices have favored industry and railroads at the expense of small consumers. Therefore, in setting up minima, the Commission arbitrarily raised the price of railroad coal to a level nearer that for small consumers. The A. A. R. protested through John Carson, consumers' counsel, whose job was specially created by the Guffey-Vinson Act to protect the consumers' interests. But the B. C. C. refused...
...industries most specifically criticized by the Federal Government at the close of 1937 for having hastened the recession by "pricing themselves out of the market" were (1 steel and building materials. 2 automobiles and textiles, 3 meat packing and coal, 4 building material and farm implement, 5 air conditioning and transportation...