Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither Mr. Taylor nor Mr. Lewis attended the Biltmore conference. This year, as last, formal negotiations were left to those two sons of pick-&-shovel coal miners-Laborman Philip Murray and Steelman Benjamin Franklin Fairless. With the aid of their respective delegations, they simply put in black & white the generalities previously agreed upon. For the union, the new contract is not so favorable as the old. In the face of Recession's realities, John L. Lewis had been forced to yield ground...
...Carter Coal Co. of Coalwood, W. Va. is pleased with itself because it brought the suit which broke the original Guffey Coal Act in the Supreme Court. Carter Coal Co. is now out to duplicate this feat with the Guffey-Vinson Coal Act. This Act set up a seven-man national Bituminous Coal Commission in Washington, with the major purpose of creating minimum prices for soft coal. In a city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME...
With 600,000 members, the U. M. W. is the biggest union in the land. It has organized 95% of the coal industry and branched out through by-products and coal-tar derivatives into the chemical industry and even into perfume and cosmetics. It has $2,500,000 in its treasury -after contributing $500,000 to the National Democratic Committee in 1936, spending $550,000 on elegant new quarters in Washington and lending $2,000,000 to the C. I. O. and its various affiliates. Its vice president is Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, its secretary...
...months the Jeannette sailed north. A reconditioned yacht, fitted for Arctic service by a sheathing of heavy planks, she could make four knots with her engines, six with her sails in a good breeze. But under sail she could scarcely be managed, and her engines used five tons of coal a day. Owned by Bennett, she had been commissioned by the Navy. Bennett paid the expenses of the trip although naval officers were in command and even the correspondents sailed as U. S. Navy seamen. Naval engineers shook their heads over the Jeannette, reported skeptically that "so far as practicable...
Freight Rates. From Pottsville, Pa. iron ore can be shipped to New York harbor for $1.21 a ton, but the rate on a ton of anthracite is $2.39. Fuel oil shipped from Harrisburg to Philadelphia goes for 62? a ton, 24? cheaper than coal. This difference must be covered in anthracite prices...