Word: coaling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Between Indiana and Philadelphia lie some 600 miles of fat midlands, coal-seamed Alleghanies and factory-dotted coastal plains. It is a tedious train trip; wise people take the sleeper. By automobile it is more pleasant; the roads are excellent and through the Pennsylvania mountains there are gorgeous views. But best of all is to fly it. Then you can soar above the farmlands, circle and behold the cities like great wens on the face of nature, swoop up and over the mountains, dallying if you like on the long downward slant to peer off east to the continent...
...what to arbitrate is before the new coal conference as it was before the old. The Markle plan was, in the former case, rejected by the miners because it provided for arbitration of wages alone. They feared a conspiracy to lower wages. Equally unacceptable to the operators was the suggestion of John L. Lewis that prices, profits, and middle-man activity ought also to be regulated. Frightful visions of future bungling investigations by miscellaneous commissions arose in the minds of the owners, and they decline to consider the idea...
Both sides seek guarantees, the one against sudden wage reduction, the other both against the snooping investigations that were latent in the first proposal of the miners and against the trap of fading profits into which a lowered coal price might turn the "frozen wage" scheme. In truth the dangers of fixed wages or prices are too real to be overlooked. A sliding scale relating wages and prices would suit the operators better, but the miners would still fear secret intrigue. With all its defects, the first proposal of the miners is the clearest of all the plans. It requires...
Judge von Moschzisker's next topic of discussion was the coal situation. "There is only one point of difference between the two contending factions in the present controversy," he said. "They can agree as to a wage scale and contract for the present, but the operators insist on the arbitration of the wage scale when the contract expires. John Lewis, leader of the miners, says that an agreement to this proposition would be entering into voluntary slavery. However, contrary to general opinion. I am sure that both parties are trying to serve the public faithfully. Pennsylvania is suffering just...
...Adopted a resolution offered by Senator LaFollette directing the Treasury to give the Senate the facts as to the earnings of anthracite coal companies...