Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berwind-White Coal Co., big Pennsylvania operators who supply the Manhattan subways, reduced wages 20%. Workers have apparently accepted it on the grounds that the lower wage scale will permit regular operation of the mines, hence greater pay in the long run. The Company has always insisted on open shop...
...John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, flatly refused a request of Western Pennsylvania and Ohio coal operators for a meeting to discuss a downward revision of the existing wag? scale. "Nonunion competition is driving us out of business," said operators. "Anything but wage-reduction," said Mr. Lewis, in effect...
...walkout of coal miners at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, last month, was the subject of an interpellation in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Miss Agnes MacPhail asked if the Government intended to sit calmly "while thousands are starving in Cape Breton." James A. Robb, Minister of Finance, stated laconically that no change of policy was contemplated. The strike grew out of an attempt to apply a 10% wage cut, but did not become active until the coal company contended that the workers had overdrawn their credit at the company's supply stores, cut off further credit. Twelve thousand...
Quite quickly, however, came a change. Ragtime began to be composed to words which bore no relation to cotton-picking or coal-black mammies...
...Arcturus is soon to go to Panama to coal; will cross into the Pacific to investigate marine life in the Humboldt Current before returning to the Sargasso Sea in July, when calmer weather is hoped...