Word: coal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standing in front of me now a man of 35, unshaven, in a soiled, rumpled raincoat, hunched over, and in a whisper asking for only a cigarette." Pravda this month gleefully printed an Associated Press picture (see. cut) of the tattered family and the shack of a striking Kentucky coal miner to il-lustrate its claim that millions of children in capitalist countries suffer from poverty. From such isolated instances, it is no trick for the Soviet press to jump to the sweeping generalization and, if necessary, to the outright lie ("While hungry American children look for a slice...
UNITED MINE WORKERS paid $438,000 in damages for violence in trying to organize Meadow Creek Coal Co. of Montgomery, Tenn. Action has spurred other mine operators to sue for $6,000,000 in damages, and additional suits totaling $7,000,000 are expected soon. To meet assault on its $21 million treasury, U.M.W. assessed its 190,000 members $20 each...
...their battling over steel negotiations, both management and labor naturally pick the figures that best prove their case. Determined to hold fast against any wage hike, industry points out that the steelworkers' average hourly wage of $3.08 is higher than in all but a handful of U.S. industries (coal, glass, construction). According to industry statistics, postwar wage costs have risen nearly twice as fast as the cost of living. Replies the union: average earnings do not mean anything, because the majority of steelworkers have to work at incentive pace and on undesirable shifts and normal off-days to achieve...
...House, 251-54, passed a bill to create an independent, three-man federal commission to think up ways of helping the ailing, coal industry. Complained Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "No matter how thick or thin you slice it, this creates a new agency when we already are surfeited with them...
...making statuettes from the mud in the streets, won a government student grant of $11 a month and took himself to Paris, where miraculously he found himself accepted as a temporary pupil at the Beaux-Arts. He remained a student for 14 years. To stay alive, he sold coal and wood, painted houses, acted as a "jockey" at the greyhound races (he held the leashes...