Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least striking event of the week at Swampscott was a session which the President had with the news correspondents. The import of the meeting was variously garbled, camouflaged or ignored in press dispatches. The plain fact was that Mr. Coolidge raked the correspondents over the coals. He said that their "hot weather reporting" was pretty poor stuff. He suggested that some of them might well give their daily reports a serial title: "Faking with the President." He intimated that it would be better not to send out fake reports oftener than every two weeks- not to report that...
Another week went by at Atlantic City (TIME, July 20, 27) and the anthracite coal miners and operators managed to sandwich in four sessions of conference. They have until Aug. 31 (when the present wage contract expires) in which to come to an agreement on wages after that date. Otherwise a strike is in prospect...
...would take the form of an agreement: 1) To continue present wages; 2) to appoint a semi-public fact-finding body to prepare data for a future settlement; 3) a contract for 18 months to expire Apr. 1, 1927. On this same date, the wage contract in the bituminous coal fields expires, raising the prospect of a joint strike of both hard-and soft-coal producers. This prospect is not without advantages to both operators and miners. To the anthracite operators, it would mean a strike without the prospect of losing any of their market by the public...
...Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers in West Virginia, wired Secretary of Commerce Hoover that soft-coal producing companies were attempting to break their wage contract (negotiated at Jacksonville, Fla., a year ago last spring). He said that attempts were being made to lower wages 50%, that armed gunmen were being employed to intimidate the miners, that hundreds of miners were being evicted from their homes by their employer landlords, that, if the Federal Government did not take a stand against the breaking of the wage contract by soft-coal miners, the Union miners of hard and soft coal...
What he said is just another complication of the coal-mining situation. The cause of the trouble is that production of bituminous coal is quite different from that of anthracite. There are far too many soft-coal mines and miners in comparison with the demand for coal. The result is tremendous competition, cutting of prices and a tendency to reduce wages. The soft-coal industry, unlike the hard-coal industry, is only partly Unionized. A year ago last spring at Jacksonville, the soft-coal operators in Union fields accepted a high wage contract, thinking perhaps that it would force high...