Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the toughest half of the double-header strike in steel and coal out of the way, the U.S. turned optimistically to idle soft-coal fields. John L. Lewis, who had been waiting for steel and the Steelworkers to settle, was expected to have his 380,000 United Mine Workers back in the pits in short order...
...atmosphere was informal. In the corridors of Jefferson County's big stone courthouse, the gossip and laughter were loud. There were strike-idled coal miners and old men who shave only once every three days and carry canes. Klansmen posed for pictures smiling broadly, friend-ly-like. Inside the courtroom, mild old Judge Robert J. Wheeler fingered his speckled white mustache. Occasionally he spat delicately into his cuspidor...
...seem to hurt much at first-only some local twinges of discomfort and worried looks in high places. But by last week, the discomfort had become painfully general. The U.S. economy was slowly suffocating in the tight, unrelenting grip of the first simultaneous nationwide strike in coal and steel...
...nation's coal stockpile was down to 43 days' supply and dwindling steadily. That would not have been alarming if the coal was distributed properly, but it was not. A prize batch, 10 million tons, was piled in the idle steel industry's bins. The New York Central R.R. lopped 89 steam-powered trains from its schedule, had to cancel another 57 next day when the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered all railroads with low coal supplies to cut steam-locomotive passenger runs by 25%. "By the end of this week or next," said a U.S. Government coal...
...Muscle. But nothing was giving. Five weeks of strike-shrouded, ill-tempered negotiations between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the coal operators had only increased their distaste for each other. The northern and western operators walked out of the bargaining room in disgust last week, virtually inviting the U.S. Government to step in. Lewis apparently still hoped to stall the negotiations somehow until Phil Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers settled their strike with the steel industry...