Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a city built upon the coal industry. This is perfectly literal, since many of the mines run under the city and buildings not infrequently cave in as a result of dangerous tunneling. Now it has been discovered by mining engineers employed by the city that the Richter Coal Company has been unlawfully mining beneath Nay Aug Park, thus imperilling the lives of hundreds of pleasure seeking citizens. But it appears that the coal digging was not illegal because it endangered people's lives; it was illegal because the coal belongs to the Scranton Coal Company, which...
...Harry V. Dougherty, head of a private detective agency which specializes in providing " emergency labor," a polite term for labor scabs, gave an interview in which he said that he had opened negotiations with the French Government whereby he would secure American Negro labor to operate the Ruhr coal mines. But he was unable to persuade any Negroes to take up his offer of $7 a day, plus board and lodging, nor could passports for the strikebreakers be obtained from the State Department...
Hugo Stinnes. Crafty, potent, indurate, Herr Hugo Stinnes, coal magnate, multimillionaire, present " All-Highest " of Germany, plots a coal victory in the Ruhr. His aim is the control of the European steel industries, and, like all mysterious figures who move in the no-man's-land of international politics, he stands to win whichever side comes...
...present it suits Stinnes to back his own country. The establishment of a great coal and iron industry in Germany has obvious advantages to himself. It insures illimitable profits for the future. So the great magnate stirs the people up against the French under the guise of patriotism; and hungry, discontented, deceived men resist and suffer for the Coal King and his satellites...
...economic depredation, or by propaganda, and stated that, since the French were inadept at spreading propaganda, they had resorted at the other methods, and were trying to overthrow Germany politically and economically, by separating Bavaria from the rest of the German state, and by depriving Germany of her coal and iron resources in Silesia and in the Saar and Ruhr valleys...