Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...older than his chief) was elected to Congress in 1907 and served continuously until he voluntarily dropped out at the last election. He studied law at the University of Virginia, became later an instructor of mathematics, practiced law at his native Big Stone Gap, became President of the Slemp Coal Company. Since 1905 he has been Republican State Chairman...
Three weeks ago the miners and operators broke off negotiations for a new wage contract because the operators refused to accept the miners' demand for the "check-off." The Coal Investigation Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature has threatened to advise all New Englanders to boycott hard coal and use soft instead. The latest development was a call from the United States Coal Commission asking miners and operators to meet with it in New York in an attempt to reach a settlement...
...inside" assert that the miners and operators have no intention of suspending work. The threat of an anthracite boycott is significant only because it indicates desperation in New England (which constitutes a large part of the anthracite-using public). If New Englanders can give up their predilection for hard coal, their furnaces cannot. The expense and trouble of changing a large number of private furnaces to burn soft coal efficiently would materially injure the effectiveness of a boycott. As for the call of the Coal Commission to a new conference, it is popularly attributed to President Coolidge's desire...
...that there will be no more button strikes. But these are generally of short duration, and the operators prefer to be subject to them rather than collect funds that may be used against them and rather than give the union a firm control of all the miners of the coal fields...
...weeks ago the U. S. Coal (Fact Finding) Commission made public its report. This has been followed by a supplementary report dealing especially with the labor problem in the anthracite fields. The Commission recommends that...