Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million striking British coal miners (TIME, May 10, et seq.) all beginning to feel the pinch of living upon meagre union doles, awaited with anxious expectancy last week Premier Baldwin's long heralded address to the Commons outlining proposed legislation to end the strike...
...Premier developed his thesis amid a stramash of interruptions. He had no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Under present conditions the coal mining industry could not support the miners' standard of living unless they would work an extra hour. He proposed merely to suspend for perhaps three years the Seven Hours Act. During that period the coal industry could be put upon its feet by carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.). The Government's offer of a ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) coal subsidy...
...outburst jibed ill with a statement by Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to the Commons that "the Government does not propose to terminate its official protest by renouncing the Anglo-Russian trade agreement-nor does the Government propose to stop any Russian money sent to aid the coal miners. . . . The total sum so transmitted now amounts...
Forthwith, the British Foreign Office issued an announcement: the President of France had postponed his visit because of the political crisis at Paris. Simultaneously all semi-official French news organs carried a statement: the President of France had postponed his visit because of the British Coal Strike...
Copies of this latter version caught the eye of George V, Rex et Imperator. An hour later commotion ensued at the French Foreign office. Someone had blundered. Apologies to the King-Emperor were forthcoming, retractions in the press, honeyed words anent the coal strike...