Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan to solve the problem of the New England railroads is greeted with enthusiasm by the Boston newspapers. There is reason in this; from coal shortage to lack of passenger trains the conditions of transportation in this section of the United States are always critical. It is small wonder that every suggested remedy should be given full attention in spite of the fact that most of them have failed to stand the test of practice...
...same thing, according to Senator Ladd, will happen with respect to the coal and ore mines, natural water power, and other public utilities, now owned and managed by private corporations. The trouble will not begin necessarily with the workers, as an outgrowth of the labor question. It may originate entirely with the Public, but it will probably start by the Public and the workers combining the inefficient and minority-benefitting corporations...
...must decide what to do. We might listen to him. But alas! He has not tongue of his own; only a few words and phrases which he has picked up through contact with his betters. Addison may pass disguised as a horney handed son of toil but a coal-heavier cannot hide himself under all the wigs and satin breaches in the world. There, then stands our literacy he be; with the shirt of prince and the overalls of mechanic; with the vocabulary of scholar and the ideas of a peasant...
...talk on England's industrial situation it is expected that Mr. Clay will deal with the question primarily from the economic standpoint, regardless of all political considerations that may be entangled in the controversy. He will consider particularly the present situation in regard to the coal mines, concerning which he has made an exhaustive investigation. It is probable that he will also touch on the character and scope of the Workers' Educational Association...
...December 1919 2,000,000 people were threatened with cold and hunger by a strike of the coal miners. The Governor went to a justice of the Supreme Court to seek an injunction granting the state a receivership of the mines. He obtained it. He then pleaded with the 15,000 miners to go back to work in spite of the union leaders, but only one man came over. He turned to the people of the State to operate the mines and 11,000 immediately volunteered. He chose his crew very carefully, giving preference to ex-army...