Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Magnus?everybody in Minnesota including himself calls him Magnus?won on a platform of Government control (in favor of the farmers) of railroads, coal mines, Federal Reserve Bank. He is for a cash soldier bonus, heavier income surtaxes, excess profits taxes, restriction of the power of the courts in granting injunctions against labor, better prices for farm products, no lowering of wages, no entangling alliances...
...United States Coal Commission, headed by John Hays Hammond, made public its preliminary report on the Anthracite Coal situation...
...expropriation. ¶The Government should exercise control of the industry and also, if at any time the supply of anthracite is cut off by labor troubles or otherwise, the President should be empowered to declare an emergency, take over the mines temporarily, fix wages, mine, transport and distribute coal. ¶The retail price of anthracite has practically doubled in ten years. ¶About 50 cents of the consumer's dollar goes to pay for coal at the mine, the remainder paying for transportation, distribution, retailers' and jobbers' profits. ¶Of this same dollar about eleven cents, altogether...
...need to do is to unite politically and you can have a thorough cleanup. You will be able to clean out the gunmen in the coal fields, particularly in West Virginia. It is time to get back to the spirit of the Revolutionary fathers...
...passing, it should be noted that France is now the master of Europe and as such is feared. In short, she controls most of the Continental coal and iron supply; she has the largest army and air force in the world, with the possible exception of Russia. A navy is not a primary need of France. It is thus evident that France's supremacy invited a change in the Balance of Power. To summarize, Britain says to France: "Get out of the Ruhr or we will form an alliance with Germany." These words are the funeral oration...