Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toward life. This attitude of life which so largely controls business conditions, can be changed only "by conversion, or by a long process of education." Just as a thermometer does not regulate but only indicates the temperature of a room, the amount of heat depending upon having plenty of coal in the basement and upon the "attitude of the janitor," so the work of the statistician does not regulate but only indicates existing business conditions...
...again assuming my self-appointed and totally obnoxious duty of correcting your very recent history, this time in connection with the British coal strike. In an editorial on this topic you said that Premier Lloyd George offered to submit the question under dispute to arbitration, but that the miners, contrary even to the advice of their leaders, refused. On the very face of it, from the newspaper reports that both sides were still open to negotiations the first part of the statement may be branded as false. Then besides, let me refer you to the truth: A report has actually...
...grant that nationalization is probably the moving idea behind this strike, but insist that intelligent Britain does not stand wholly opposed to it in any form. The Sankey Report says, paragraph nine: "Even upon the evidence already given the present system of ownership and working in the coal industry stands condemned, and some other system must be substituted for it, either nationalization of a method of unification by national purchase and, or, by joint control...
...Great Britain, however, Mr. Lloyd George is as strong as ever. There have been railway strikes, factory strikes, and, as at present, coal strikes; there have come up for settlement the Irish problem, the Polish question, delicate relations with France on the German question, and other foreign complications. Lloyd George remains in control. When the smoke screen has cleared, when the events and issues of the present period shall have become history, the British Premier will stand out as one of the shrewdest politicians and ablest states men of all time...
...commencement of the coal strike on Saturday marks the forcing by labor of the issue of radicalism in Great Britain. The English people are normally cool headed and stand always for fair play. Yet the miners show in their strike aims a sharp divergence from this characteristic; while ostensibly their demands are for higher wages, it is felt that the real issue is nationalization of the mines. The government some time ago offered to submit this question to an impartial tribunal. The miners refused. Lloyd George offered to pay them higher wages on condition that they bring production totals...