Word: coal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin County. Pitched battles were fought with as many as 300 armed miners engaged. Hundreds were wounded in open conflict and no less than 21 Progressives were murdered. Trains were dynamited, a bridge burned, and bombings became as common as rain. The state of law enforcement in the Illinois coal fields apparently is such that little attention is paid to shootings or murders. Last month 41 Progressive Unionists and sympathizers were brought to trial in Springfield, Ill. on Federal charges of conspiring to blow up trains and thus interfere with 1) the mails and 2) interstate commerce. Four...
...tale told in the Federal Court in Springfield of union corruption, corporate connivance, espionage, counterespionage, death, terror and double-dealing made it apparent that morally if not legally the United Mine Workers and the coal operators were as guilty of fomenting civil war as the Progressive Miners of America...
...hoped to raise $20,000 to pay the debts of his new St. Patrick's Church. Father Cox, who in 1935 charged people 25? apiece to see a "miraculous" image of Christ formed in soot on a chimney which he had transported to Pittsburgh from a coal miner's shack in Collier, Pa., lately thought up and copyrighted a "Garden Stakes" contest, with cash prizes...
There are 6,315 bituminous coal mines in the U. S. and last year they produced 430,000,000 tons of soft coal. On each of these tons producers lost an average of 11?. This state of affairs in the $3,500,000,000 coal industry was no 1936 phenomenon; save for a brief respite under NRA it has been the normal condition of coal since 1923. After NRA came the Guffey Coal Act (also found unconstitutional) and finally last spring the Guffey-Vinson Act creating a seven-man National Bituminous Coal Commission. This body, with powers much like those...
...Guffey-Vinson Act split the U. S. into 23 coal-producing districts, each with a branch office supervised from Washington by the B. C. C. Also created were ten minimum price areas. Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (covering Iowa and all the U. S. east of the Mississippi), which produce 80% of all U. S. soft coal, are those affected by last week's price setup. The rest of the U. S. will be put under a similar price code in a few weeks. In each of the 23 producing areas each quality and size of coal is classified according...