Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anthracite has suffered primarily because the State of Pennsylvania places the thievery of coal in a class apart from the thievery of other property; unemployment in other industries has not been accompanied by sacking such as is the case with anthracite...
...interested in the difficulties at present confronting the anthracite industry, may I express my appreciation not only of the article in TIME, July 13, relative to the stolen coal matter, but also of the fairness with which you handled the subject. At the same time, may I call your attention to one error in that article -contrary to your statement, Stevens Coal Co. is operating the properties on which the accident in question occurred...
Just as Samuel Gompers adjusted himself to the realities of 1886, so John L. Lewis has adjusted himself to those of 1936. His United Mine Workers' Union admits any man who works in or around a coal mine, no matter what his craft. Under his aggressive leadership U. M. W. has become the biggest, richest, most powerful union in the land. Backed by eleven other industrial unions, leader Lewis is now attempting to organize Steel's 500,000 workers on the same principle. Beyond that- implicit in his announced plan to organize the automobile, rubber, lumber and textile...
Superintendent Jones promptly mustered another crew of company miners for another purpose. On North Mountain they went from one bootleg coal hole to another, grimly dynamited every one. Before Enoch Kuklinskie died of a broken back that evening Stevens Coal Co.'s Shamokin properties were sealed against illegal entry for a long time...
...Coal bootlegging is a Depression answer to mass unemployment. The entire U. S. anthracite industry is concentrated in 500 sq. mi. in Pennsylvania. In this one-industry area the closing of a big colliery may end the only payroll in a coal town. One by one the collieries have been closed because the U. S. now burns less than two-thirds the anthracite it used ten years ago. For this there are many reasons, including strikes, high prices and poor merchandising, which have conspired to advance the competitive position of fuels like oils, gas, coke. In 1924 total anthracite sales...