Word: coale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who is getting to be an old hand at dealing with John L. Lewis, tried hard last week to avoid having to slap him down again. The "national tragedy" of another coal strike, said Judge Goldsborough, would rouse the country and Congress against Lewis, perhaps against both labor & management. Said he: "The people are not going to stand for having society disintegrated by movements of this kind." He invited John L.'s lawyers and those of the Southern Coal Producers Association, with whom Lewis has stubbornly refused to negotiate, to sit down...
Although Lewis was not in court, Judge Goldsborough let John know what he thought of him. "There is no such thing as a benevolent despot," he said. "It's your boundless audacity, O Catiline."* Then he ordered Lewis, under the Taft-Hartley law, to bargain with all the coal operators before the June 30 contract deadline...
...first job was running a pushcart. Then he signed on as a coal passer on the steamship Dochra and made a trip to South America. After that, he was on his own. He worked in the fire rooms of Hudson River night boats. He "carried the hod" during construction of the Woolworth Building and many another Manhattan building, and made $19.25 a week...
...houses were started, 20,500 more than in the same month last year. Civilian employment, said BLS, is also headed for a new peacetime high of 62,000,000 jobs by September. Industrial production, which had dropped in April for the second consecutive month because of the coal strike, was on the rise again. After the disappointing Easter season, department store sales, reported the Federal Reserve Board, were "at exceptionally high levels" in April and the first half...
...with the New York Central, partly because it would take business away from the Virginian Railway Co. (TIME, May 24). So Suitor Young made a new proposal: he would buy into or merge with the Virginian too, and merge it with the Central and C. & O. Said the thriving, coal-hauling Virginian: Not feasible. ICC said nothing...