Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, with the termination of the contract, Southern coal operators stopped all payments to the Miners' Welfare Fund. This fund was set up under the wage agreement of 1947 and stipulated that coal miners would pay a 20 cent-a-ton royalty for pensions and sickness benefits. The Southerners argued that with the end of the contract, they were no longer obligated to make payments, especially in view of the three-day week...
Meanwhile, the cut in the work week had cut coal production from 11,000,000 to 8,000,000 tons a week, reducing the income of the Fund by $600,000 weekly. The mine operators claimed that the income had dropped to $7,000,000 a month, while pensions and benefits were being distributed at an $11,000,000 monthly rate...
...September 16, the capital of the Fund had dropped to $14,000,000, and it was forced to suspend all payments. Three days later, the nation's 480,000 hard and soft coal miners left the pits in what the UMW called a "spontaneous" walkout. The immediate reason given for the walkout was the default on fund payments by the Southern operators and the new slogan, "no welfare, no work," was conceived. The walkout, however, included the Northern and Western mines which sent their regular monthly payment of $3,000,000 to the Fund on September...
...position of the UMW was not as strong as it had hoped, since summer demand for coal had dropped considerably, negating the effect of the three-day week. Early last week, the anthracite miners ended their sympathy strike, perhaps to persuade their home-heating customers not to switch to oil. Next day, the 22,000 soft coal miners west of the Mississippi returned to their jobs...
...bituminous miners in the North and South are still out of the pits. It is the first instance of steel and coal walkouts, separately caused, running concurrently. Mediator Ching, balked in his efforts to end the steel dispute, has turned to the coal situation in an effort to get a settlement somewhere...