Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Labor James John Davis gave a party but nobody of real importance came. He meant it to be a peace party to settle the troubles of the coal industry...
Secretary Davis sent out a second batch of telegrams. A few "big fellows" who wanted to be courteous to the Administration accepted.† But the handful of operators who turned up in Washington were mostly "little fellows" who feel the coal industry's ailment almost as painfully as Labor feels...
...constituted the committee which did most of the actual conferring. When they had finished Secretary Davis issued statements. His points: 1) "It is useless for small operators to attend any conference unless the major operators attend and agree to remedial measures." 2) Congress alone has power to force the coal industry out of the morass in which it now is." 3) "The morass" is overdevelopment: too many mines, too many miners. 4) Left alone, the strongest, operators would survive the present cut-throat competition "at fearful cost to those too weak to survive and with further hardship to labor during...
...Coal. Let Congress empower the President to mediate miner-v.-operator disputes when necessary...
Once more secure in leadership, Mr. MacDonald led a savage attack in the Commons last week upon Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, charging that he "disregarded the decencies of public life" when he recently refused to enter debate in defense of his coal policy (TIME, Nov. 28). Finally the Laborites introduced, last" week, a motion censuring the Government which was automatically voted down by the Conservative majority...