Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Johnson, President of the International Correspondence School and the nestors of Luzerne, Lackawanna and Schuylkill Counties, Pennsylvania, spent a busy week talking, traveling. They were members of the Citizens' No Strike Committee, which presented itself as a battledore and shuttlecock between the estranged parties to an impending anthracite coal strike...
...attacked the operators' propaganda that any increases in wages must be paid by the public. They should be paid, said Mr. Lewis, from the operators' enormous profits. And he cited endless statistics to prove the enormousness of the profit,?for example, said he, the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Co. made $7,182,000 or 31% on its investment in 1924, would make over $11,000,000 or 51% in 1925, issued a 200% stock dividend in April, 1924, and paid an extra dividend of $3 a share in January...
...Sometime the operators will have sold their large accumulated stocks of coal...
...first point is calculated to be before October 10; the second about November 1; the third about December 1. Averaging these three dates, would put the result about where the operators want it. The theory of miners' tactics is to wait until accumulated coal is sold or until public officials intervene (the latter being a consummation devoutly undesired by operators? or, at least, so the miners think.) Then the miners hope to wring concessions from the operators...
...interesting feature of the situation to British businessmen lies in the fact that U. S. films have proved, mainly unintentionally, a rich publicity and sales agent for U. S. goods abroad. In consequence, since the Baldwin Government's subsidy to the coal industry, British film producers are now demanding a similar subsidy for their business. They declare that this step is necessary if British colonies are not to be slowly but surely Americanized by our exported films...