Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John J. Cornwell, former Gover nor of West Virginia, told the National Association of Manufacturers that it would not be long before the United Mine Workers would demand nationalization of the coal mines. He asserted that they would not be satisfied with the recommendations of the so-called Fact Finding Commission, unless it also demanded nationalization of mines. At the convention of miners at Cleveland in 1919 the demand for nationalization of the coal mines was voiced formally for the first time. He declared that we are now only in a " temporary lull" of the coal war and that...
...Coal mining is " one of the safest occupations in the United States," according to statistics filed by operators with the United States Coal Commission. State insurance figures show that 100 regular occupations are more dangerous. Window cleaning, operating farm machinery and carpentry are listed as exposing workmen to greater danger of injury and death than work in the mines...
...Woods was general counsel of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, from which occupation he entered public life. He was U. S. Minister to Portugal from 1912 to 1915, Secretary of State of Pennsylvania for the terms of 1915-1923. However, he resigned this latter position in 1921, when President Harding nominated him Ambassador to the Palace of the Escurial...
...discussions of a wide gamut of present-day business and economic problems. In addition to the general sessions devoted to such broad topics as railroads, European affairs and transportation, many sessions of special groups reviewed the more specific subjects of agricultural credits, modern insurance, the conservation of natural resources, coal, oil and rubber. Even methods of obtaining better postmasters were exhaustively considered. The convention expressed itself as favoring a World Court, an economic conference to settle European affairs and a slight relaxation of present immigration restrictions by the addition of a selected 2%. It sharply opposed government ownership...
...stressed the necessity of preserving the American spirit of private initiative, and warned his hearers against the extension of governmental control over business. Mr. Hoover had no fears that, owing to our huge stock of gold, the current trade boom would end in inflation. He did, however, urge that coal be stored now to lighten the transportation problem next fall and winter...