Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Ministers. Hopefully they turned to consider two additional and alternative measures designed to reduce unemployment which were proposed, last week, to the House of Commons by harassed Stanley Baldwin. First came a promise that the Baldwin Government will shortly force reduction of British freight rates on coal, in an effort to stimulate that industry, and relieve unemployment among miners. Second, Mr. Baldwin announced that Simon Joseph Fraser, Baron Lovat, Permanent Undersecretary of the Dominions Office, will shortly set sail for Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to prepare a survey and general plan for integrating the manpower needs of Daughter...
...help locals in other States, whether International President Lewis had carried his doggedness irretrievably far, remained to be seen. The first overture for local readjustment, by Ohio's union miners to Ohio's operators, was flatly rebuffed last week. President S. H. Robbins of the Ohio Coal Operators Association said: ". . . not interested . . . will have no further dealings with the United Mine Workers of America...
...through with the United Mine Workers of America and will not deal with any other coal miners' union that may come into being...
Pennies pinched by Scotch employers since the War have turned many a braw Sandy and honest Wully to Communism. Scotland's shipyards on the Clyde and Scotland's dreary coal mines are the new cradle of British Reds. Last week the British Coal Miners' Federation Conference met at Llandudno, Wales, and was bearded by five Scotch Reds, executives of the Scotch Communist Miners' Union, which was recently expelled from the parent Federation. "Tyrant!" bawled the Scots at Federation President Herbert Smith, 65, "we demand a hearing...
John Magee, Manhattan coal and railroad tycoon, became aware, as he opened his mouth to munch a meal last week that three of his front teeth were missing. Supposing that he had left them somewhere about his house, he conducted a search, but while doing so, he became aware of sharp stomach pain. His suspicions were soon confirmed by an X-ray photograph. He had swallowed his three front teeth. Still calm, John Magee announced with a vacant grin, his intention of going to Newport...