Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lake Coal. To the annoyance of coal operators in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, the Commission refused to let freight rates be lowered 20 cents per ton by railroads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Louisville & Nashville, Hocking Valley, Virginian) which carry coal from that section to the Great Lakes, for transshipment to the Northwest...
...proposed rate-cut conferred upon coal a special benefit out of scale with the rates given other commodities, notably agricultural. 2) It would tend to precipitate rate-cutting by railroads (Baltimore & Ohio, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Wheeling & Lake Erie) which carry coal to the same market from competing mines in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Rate wars are against the public interest, especially Labor's, and are one of the evils the I. C. C. was founded to suppress...
...respondents promptly accused the I. C. C., as it had been accused before, of presuming to equalize prosperity between two competing sections of the country, i.e. to help the West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio coal interests out of the bog into which their labor troubles have thrust them. This the I. C. C. has no power to do, as was sharply suggested by the Senate last month. The barb in the Senate's pending investigation of the I. C. C. (TIME, Feb. 20) is a clause directing the Commissioners to cite statutory authorities for each & every one of their...
...investigation began with the setting up of headquarters at the William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh. Presidents J. D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and Horace W. Baker of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co. called, to request that the Senators would make their tour without any escort from the United Mine Workers whose officials, insisted the operators, would be sure to distort conditions. Philip Murray, the Mine Workers' vice president, was more persuasive, however, and a union delegation accompanied the tourists, on the understanding that Mr. Murray was to be kept away from the operators' superintendents...
...four dignitaries played Santa-Claus-taking-orders among the dishevelled strike barracks-shaking horny hands, patting grimy little heads, listening to angry women who had lost husbands or health or unborn babies, or who complained that they had been insulted, assaulted, injured by Governor Fisher's Coal & Iron Police or the operator's "scabs," many of whom are Negroes...