Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operators' payrolls, these raises would add an estimated $85,000,000 per year. To consumers' coal bills: 25? per ton, an estimated $100,000,000 per year...
...miners settled down at home to wait until their employers had done so. In Pennsylvania, many a mine failed to re-open because operators were uncertain of their sick industry's prospects. Same day in Washington, however, strong medicine was brewed when the Senate passed the new Guffey Coal Bill (see p. 16). aimed to end the overproduction and cut-throat competition which have laid Coal low, making last week's Labor gains doubly sure of fulfillment...
...campaign which has carried him to Labor's peak, he raised-and can raise again when he needs to-a $1,000,000 war chest simply by tapping each of his miners $1 per month for two months. As he sped back to Michigan last week with the coal settlement in his pocket, Leader Lewis and U. M. W. had once again given public and employers an object lesson in industrial order, furnished unruly new automobile unionists (see p. 20) and millions of workers whom he hopes still to organize, with impressive proof of the gains...
...Senate: ¶ After killing an anti-Sit-Down rider proposed by South Carolina's Byrnes (see p. 18), passed the Guffey-Vinson coal control bill; sent it to the House, which passed it last month, for action on minor amendments. Aimed to stabilize the sick coal industry (see below), the bill lacks the labor provisions which caused Supreme Court invalidation of the original Guffey Coal Act, creates a National Bituminous Coal Commission to fix minimum prices, enforce a code of fair practices. ¶ Passed the wheat crop insurance bill which provides an appropriation of $100,000,000 to establish...
Byrnes Bomb. Late one afternoon the Senate sat placidly putting the finishing touches on the revised Guffey Coal Bill. Passage within ten minutes seemed assured, and contented Senators' minds were beginning to turn to thoughts of cold drinks and warm supper. In their snug, thick-carpeted little chamber, the storm & strife of tear gas and window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose...