Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice an article in TIME, Feb. 20, p. 12, in regard to our representative, Hon. John J. Casey, in which you state "himself a coal-breaker when eight years...
...Moon Run Mine, near Crafton, Pa., it occurred to them to find out how much it actually costs to mine one ton of coal. Division Manager Harry M. White of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., close-lipped subordinate, refused to reveal the pertinent figures...
When the operators got their innings, they dressed the Senators up in mining togs and sent them riding on little cars through long, damp, dark coal galleries but continued to refuse intimate information about their businesses until it could be delivered under oath, beside Labor's testimony, when the investigators sit in judgment...
Colorado's I. W. W. coal strike, current since October, ended last week. Wobbly Tom Connors, strike chief, announced that a statewide ballot (the second one cast within a month) was 88% in favor of returning to work. Another Wobbly leader gave the reason: "The slack season is upon us. It is foolish to strike when the bosses can meet the demand for coal by keeping a few scabs at work...
During the ten years that followed, Painter Motley had to work hard. He waited on dining-car tables, did some light plumbing, some heavy coal-heaving and painted a lot more pictures. One of these, A Mulattress won him the Frank G. Logan medal and prize at the Chicago Art Institute Exhibition in 1925. Last week he achieved the honor of a one-man exhibition in Manhattan, an honor which, so far as is known, no Negro has ever before achieved. To the New Galleries came a motley crowd, including Ralph Pulitzer, part-owner of the N. Y. World...