Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual cost of producing anthracite coal does not warrant the excessively high prices which the public are paying, according to a report made by a committee representing the United Mine Workers of America, and brought to the attention of the United States Coal Commission...
...Companies claim the amount necessary for miners' insurance is 10 cents a ton, while in 1921 only 4 cents a ton was paid out to the miners, thus reducing the coal companies' cost figures by $4,200,000 annually...
...cost of anthracite coal can never be figured in dollars and cents alone," concludes the report, "there must be added to the labor cost an annual toll of over 500 lives, of over 20,000 workers who suffer accidents, of men and boys who do work as dirty and dangerous as soldiers in war, that coal may be produced to warm the homes of our people...
...speaker stated that on one day, supposed to be a holiday, the I. W. W. gang was ordered to unload some coal. When they refused point blank to work while the other prisoners were enjoying a moving picture they were placed in isolation, put on bread and water, and strung up by the hands for fourteen days for eight hours a day. On the eight day they were beaten with baseball bats by some prisoners who had been given long sentences for murder and other crimes, and who beat the men with the hope of getting a commutation...
Then France can only be sure of getting what she collects herself. She hopes by the isolation of the Ruhr, that the German industrialists who depend upon the supplies of that district will force their government to accept her conditions. The seizure of coal is considered a means of enforcing the control over the finances of Germany, this control over the finances of Germany, this control being necessary against a nation which, as Professor Young admits, "has done less and has paid less than could reasonably be expected of her" and has shown "inexcusable laxity in her management...