Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the end of the coal shortage in sight, however distantly, Attorney General Daugherty is taking steps to prevent profiteering in anthracite in the future. He ordered filed in the United States District Court at New York a final decree for separation of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company from its coal subsidiaries, pursuant to the Supreme Court order...
Mild weather eased the suffering caused by the shortage and quickened coal movements. In response to the Walsh resolution in the Senate, the Interstate Commerce Commission refused to lay an embargo upon coal exports to Canada in order to benefit New England...
Former Vice-President Marshall, a member of the United States Coal Commission in charge of investigation of civil rights in the coal fields, has been invited to send a representative to Logan to observe the test...
...struggle in Logan County, West Va., between the United Mine Workers and the coal operators has become more than a simple class conflict of Capital and Labor. The American Civil Liberties Union and a representative Citizens' Committee headed by Norman Hapgood, editor of Hearst's International, have intervened to make the Logan situation a test of free speech and constitutional guarantees in West Virginia. The first thing they did was to hold an open meeting at Logan, in the heart of the non-union coal country, closed for years to free speech on coal questions, and discuss...
Having spoken in the citadel of the coal barons, in the mining Mecca where no union man can show his face without danger of physical violence, and having spoken on the most forbidden of all subjects-coal and the rights of unionism-the Citizens Committee and the Civil Liberties...