Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winter while there is sledding. Dr. Smith took with him another geologist and two engineers, men chosen for their ability to bear an arctic Winter. He has 90 dogs to draw his supplies and 50 more to be used by the technical party. Since he may not find coal, or oil seepages, he carries kerosene for five months' cooking. Since he has not time to hunt for caribou, he carries five months' food for his men as well as the rations of his dogs (two pounds of dried salmon a day for each husky). In all he has five tons...
Comparatively little notice was attracted by a conference of soft coal miners and operators at Jacksonville. There might have been a major strike if there had been a disagreement. Instead a contract was signed extending the present wage scale and all other conditions for three years from the expiration of the present contract on April 1. The miners wished a four-year extension, but the operators insisted on a three-year term in order that the next agreement might not be made in a Presidential year when all politicians are looking for the miner vote. After ten days of unostentatious...
...Senator La Follette, who started the present investigation many months ago, offered a resolution for an inquiry into Naval Coal Reserves in Alaska, which it was alleged had been improperly leased, "parallel to the Teapot Dome affair...
...vicinity?was temporarily restrained from calling a strike, but 2,000 miners struck "volun-tarily," according to Howat. He and other officials were ordered to appear before the District court, but refused, saying: "We do not recognize the court's authority or existence. Judges do not know the coal mining business. We refuse to answer questions." He was jailed for contempt of court. Given permission by the sheriff to speak from the balcony of jail, he called Governor Allen of Kansas "a skunk of a Governor...
Howat: "I rise to ask justice from the coal miners in this convention and for an opportunity to debate this question...