Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was not even a rustling of hope in the U.S. coal fields. John L. Lewis' "voluntary" walkout hardened into a stubborn stalemate and his 480,000 coal diggers were morosely exhibiting John L.'s latest variation on an old theme-the no-day work week...
...rising domestic prices consequent with devaluation. So far Sir Stafford Cripps' 20 percent increase in profits taxes does no more than place an unreasonable burden on an already belabored people. The course of future British policy, in the long run, will be determined not in Parliament but in the coal mines, the factories and the union meetings. Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great extent inherent in Parliamentary governments, that the success or failure of either one will rest ultimately on the people at large. It would be foolish to attempt...
John Lewis had no need for further comment. The word had already gone out. To U.S. coal miners, he was plainly proclaiming that the coal industry had declared war on widows, orphans, and the lame, halt and blind, and that a strike was in order. As John L. had prophesied, the halt in royalty payments had caused "reactions deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry...
Referring to post-war studies of agricultural needs made by the department of Agriculture, Waugh urged the study of national clothing, housing, coal, steel, automobile, road, and school needs and the setting of production goals in these and other fields...
Czechoslovakia has called upon its National Union of Students for voluntary work-brigades since April, 1948--two months after the Communists came into power. Czech universities reward work brigade members with "special concessions on examinations for participants," and students in coal-mining brigades receive special make-up courses...