Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the present wage contract expires. The miners have asked a 10% wage increase; the operators say that wage costs must be reduced. Incidents of the week: ¶ The operators published, in Philadelphia and Manhattan newspapers, advertisements telling the public that there was no necessity for a hard coal strike, that they were willing to offer to continue operations after Aug. 31 and to arbitrate any difference which had not been settled by that time. The miners charged that this advertising was unnecessary and that it would increase the cost of coal. The operators answered that the cost would...
...week concluded with the return of John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, to the scene of the negotiations. He straightway dispatched a letter to Samuel D. Warriner, President of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., charging that the operators' negotiating committee was composed mostly of underlings and had no intention of coming to an agreement, and charging that Mr. Warriner and W. J. Richards (President of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Corporation), who had been two of the chief negotiators in: previous years, were holding back. He said that the conference so far meant nothing...
Gloom. Gloom. Gloom. Ahead, rapidly drawing closer, was the spectre of an unparalleled industrial crisis. On Aug. 1 the coal miners would strike, unless a last-minute agreement were made. With the striking miners would be the transport workers and railwaymen, who decided not to handle any coal once the strike began. Numerous other workers would surely walk out in sympathy while, owing to a shortage of coal, many industries would be forced to shut down and discharge their employes. The Times struck the keynote of pessimism...
Miners of South Wales did their best toward solving the complex problem by suggesting that wages should be regulated, in the lower ranks of the coal industry, by the size of a man's family. An example: If a worl.er gets 5s per diem and has a wife, he would draw an additional shilling and 3d; 5d for the first child, 4d for the second, 3d for the third and 2d for the fourth...
...Coal. Shortly both ships headed north again for the boat-base at Etah, the expedition's last sea-lap. The Bowdoin put in at Umanak en route, where 80 much-appreciated tons of coal were shipped (thanks to the Danish Government's courtesy in waiving the danger of a fuel shortage in Greenland). Aboard the Peary went Governor Rosendahl of 'North Greenland...