Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charges. The current bituminous coal strikes arose from the unwillingness or inability of operators to pay a wage minimum which Labor and operators had agreed to at a conference held in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1924. That conference was under the auspices of Secretaries Davis of Labor and Hoover of Commerce. Thus the gravest charge made at last week's conference was when Vice President Philip Murray of the United Mine Workers said that the Pittsburgh Coal Co. had "deliberately slapped the Government of the United States in the face in violating the Jacksonville agreement...
Since the miners struck, operators have remanned their mines with non-union labor. To prevent the union men from interfering, the operators have obtained court injunctions against them, chiefly on the ground that to interfere with coal-mining is to hamper interstate trade. These injunctions have been detailed and drastic and in Pennsylvania, to back them up, the operators have obtained special state-appointed policemen, whose salaries the operators pay. Vice President Murray's report dwelt at length on the technique of these special policemen, whom he styled "gun-men," "thugs." Coalminers are not a fragile, thin-skinned...
Governor Fisher. The Labor conference had invited Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania to come and address it on the subject of state-appointed coal-&-iron police. Governor Fisher declined. It was unfortunate for Governor Fisher that he had to decline because that gave one-time (1917-21) Governor Gifford Pinchot a chance to dwell on the subject in his stead. Mr. Pinchot is no political friend of his fellow-Republican, Governor Fisher...
...Pinchot. Mr. Pinchot pointed out that when he was Governor there had been no head-bashing, or any other disorder, in the coal fields. "To do justice," he said, "means that the state must neither harass capital nor bludgeon labor. . . . There has been little attempt by the government to harass employers. . . . To bludgeon labor is little short of idiocy...
Comment. John L. Lewis has been President of the United Mine Workers for eight years. "One who holds no brief for the coal companies" (New York Herald Tribune) commented succinctly on the "gigantic conspiracies" alleged by Mr. Lewis, as follows: "Only a first-hand observer would care to hazard an opinion as to the methods used by both companies and unions in the mine wars of Pennsylvania and West Virginia; but one does not have to be an observer to feel that there is something wrong about this picture. An economic and social tragedy which has now lasted over...