Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miner's chieftain an almost unbelievable opportunity to extend his "memorial holiday." He asked the U.M.W. to submit the names of "any other mines which the [union] considered so hazardous as to require closing. . . ." Lewis's triumphant answer: all but two of the 2,531 U.S. coal mines operated by the Government were unsafe and would therefore be shut down...
Revenge. That was the deadfall, and elephantine Cap Krug, goaded beyond endurance, had stumbled into it. This week the nation, with a 40-day coal supply on hand, had its miners' strike after all. How long would it last? There was no telling. Safety inspection of all the mines might take two months. There were a thousand quibbles with which John could harass the Government-and keep...
...time in idleness the miners could hope for no more pay, no shorter work week, for none of the conventional rewards of a strike. And could the mines really be made safe? At best, mine safety was a relative thing. Said I. N. Bayless, president of the Union Pacific Coal Co., owner of the two mines certified as safe: "On the day of inspection these two mines just happened not to have anything wrong called to the attention of the inspector. Many other mines are equally safe...
...miners, and even John L. Lewis, who was once a miner himself, knew that Bayless was right. In coal mining there is no absolute safety. Improvements have been made over the years, but the death rate is still high. Last year 974 miners died in rock falls and other accidents-most of them unnoticed beyond their home-town papers-compared with...
...main political effect of the coal crisis, industrial shutdown and the blizzards and floods has been to draw Britain's workers closer to their Labor Government. The shocks gave Britain's workers a sense of responsibility, a will to work they had not had for a long time. The sudden threat to their pay checks had something to do with it, too, and the jolt was healthy for everybody. Unhappily along with the jolts came material shortages which make it impossible for millions to work full time at full effort, even if they want...