Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coal. The A. F. of L. week began with an interview at the fountainhead of executive intervention, the White House, where President Green & colleagues set forth the three great grievances of striking bituminous coal-miners-police brutality, suppression by injunction and "gigantic conspiracies" by the Interests (railroads, power companies, banks) to depress coal prices and crush union labor (TIME, Nov. 28). They asked President Coolidge to call a conference of miners and operators; and to suggest that Congress investigate police strikebreaking, injunctions, conspiracies...
President Coolidge was sympathetic but hesitant. He did not appear to have the soft coal situation at his executive fingertips. He said he would consult Secretary of Labor Davis and urged his callers to do likewise. He said he could not very well call a conference of Labor and operators without the latter signifying their willingness. He lacked authority to intervene unasked...
HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the front opposition bench there arose onetime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to demand a vote of censure upon the Government for its mismanagement of the coal industry problem and its neglect of the unemployment situation...
...work. They made five broad investgations: 1) consumers-how they use their credit for buying clothes, furniture and jewelry; 2) merchandise-how pianos and books are sold; 3) repossession-how used motor cars are handled; 4) depression-how consumers' debts affected a financial depression in the Pennsylvania coal fields; 5) dealers-how they sell new and used cars and how they do their banking...
...They contain artificial gas. Artifical gas is made by heating coal in ovens. What remains of the coal is coke. Natural gas occurs under the earth and is pumped from wells through the mains, to customers. The longest gas main in the world connects the Texas natural gas field with Denver...