Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairmount, W. Va., a certain John Albericon visited his doctor. He then went to see the district president of the United Mine Workers of America, who referred him to pickets at one of the little "wagon mines" which supply the odd-lot coal trade in northern West Virginia. The pickets let the mine supply Mr. Albericon after reading this entry on a medical prescription blank (as noted last week by Scripps-Howard Reporter Fred W. Perkins...
...Albericon is ill. Give them coal, please. G. V. Morgan...
...Coal-bearing West Virginia was getting its coal on prescription (as other States had to get liquor during Prohibition) because John Llewellyn Lewis and operators in the great Appalachian coal fields had been unable to agree to a new wage contract. There had been no "strike." There was simply an "abstention from work." Day after day in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, Messrs. Lewis, Charles O'Neill of the operators and three other negotiators for each side swapped stories, cussed Hitler, disagreed about Roosevelt, issued futile counterblasts to the press. They had been doing approximately this since their last...
Lewis, O'Neill & associates were not simply wasting time. Each side waited for the other to crack under increasing pressure from U. S. coal consumers. John Lewis hoped the operators would crack to the point of giving him a closed shop,* or a contract clause permitting him to strike whenever A. F. of L.'s unions, particularly the small Progressive Miners of America, may try to encroach on U. M. W. preserves. Many an operator was willing to surrender by last week, but as a group they still hung together for renewal of the old contract, including...
...Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia Record reporter, David Greendrug Wittels, recently toured the schools of eight coal counties, returned with a grim tale. With mines shut down and coal operators owing millions in local taxes (Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Corp. alone owes $3,000,000), about one-fourth of the school districts could not pay their teachers. Some 6,000 teachers all told had received no pay for one to ten months. Hundreds were on relief. To support their families, others worked after school hours as undertakers, night watchmen, store clerks, life-insurance salesmen, coal bootleggers...