Word: coale
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John Lewis is an industrial unionist. Any worker in the coal industry can find a place in his United Mine Workers. For a greater labor movement and a more united front, John Lewis wants to see 40,000,000 U. S. workers organized in industrial unions like his and amalgamated into something like the American Federation of Labor. MINER LEWIS, HIS HOUSE & OFFICE-He takes his unionism vertically. Less than 15% of the workers in U. S. industry now belong to the A. F. of L., whose total membership is short of 3,500,000. Fundamentally it is an association...
...which brought out the U. S. Army and ended in a treason trial in the same Charles Town, W. Va. courthouse where John Brown was found guilty. There was Powers Hapgood from Illinois, nephew of oldtime liberal Editor Norman Hapgood. He had worked his way around the world in coal mines, had been fired on for distributing handbills in Pennsylvania. In a thoroughly rebellious spirit such delegates as these introduced hundreds of resolutions favoring President Lewis' stand for industrial unionism, voted approval of a radio campaign to spread their leader's views, authorized their executive board to withhold...
Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Guffey made his money in oil, is making his political reputation in coal. To the miners he cried that if the little NRA for the soft coal industry, set up under the Guffey Bill, is declared unconstitutional, "I promise you that so far as I am concerned, the battle will continue. ... I am in this fight to a finish!'' Thereupon the miners rushed up and wrung "Joe"' Guffey's hand so vigorously that he had to nurse it for the rest...
...again to crowded Moscow from his bleak hut on the Donbas Steppe last week went famed Alexei Stakhanov (TIME, Dec. 16), the shrewd Soviet coal miner who devised a method ("Stakhanovism'') for speeding up the toil of Russian workers. A nationwide intensive labor speed-up for ten days had been decreed by Dictator Joseph Stalin, and at its climax amid great Moscow excitement Stakhanov received the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin...
Statistics on Soviet production during the "Ten Days Of Stakhanovism" showed that coal production in the Donbas mines, where Stakhanovism was originated by Stakhanov, had not only failed to set a new record but had dropped below the established norm. Comrade Stakhanov's co-workers under ground thus seemed to be either worn out or sulky. Moscow ordered by telegraph "YOU MUST WIPE OUT YOUR DISGRACE." In most cases throughout Russia, statistics showed that during the first five days of nationwide Stakhanovism the workers increased their output, but that it fell during the next five days, as it became...