Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost all of John Lewis' 400,000 soft-coal miners were back at work this week with the best contract in their history. His 75,000 anthracite miners had revamped their own unexpired contract to bring it into line. Not only had Lewis won more than twice the wage gains of other labor leaders, he had also punched a yawning hole in the Taft-Hartley...
Last week, Miner Cameron was back with the Dominion Coal Co., Ltd., at New Waterford, N.S. He explained...
After three days they had had enough. They were good miners, said their boss, but they were soft-coal miners in a hard-coal mine and they seemed "as lost as a lobster in an Alberta lake." Said one of the Capemen: "We want no more of it. It's too hard work...
...Cape Breton we just dig a hole in the coal face, put in the powder, and the coal is blown out for us. All we have to do is shovel it. Out there you have to use a jackhammer to pry the coal off the face, and even after that you have to dig the rocks out. That kind of mining isn't easy...
This Year's Model. In Edinburgh, Scotland, an official of the College of Art explained why this spring's exhibition offered far fewer nude paintings: last winter's coal shortage discouraged models from posing...