Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could no longer set minimum rates, only maximum rates. At present, the commission firmly fixes all railroad freight rates, while allowing truckers to set their own rates for farm goods and permitting barge operators to charge what they want for bulk commodities such as grain, ore, oil and coal...
...U.M.W., a federal district court de cided, had used its power to discriminate against a small company (Tennessee's de funct Phillips Brothers Coal Co.) in favor of the big West Kentucky Coal Co., con trol of which had been acquired by Cleve land Industrialist Cyrus Eaton with mon ey lent him by the U.M.W. welfare fund...
During the trial. Lewis coldly testified: "I cannot sorrow for those pallid, under fed, ill-nourished operators of small mines who can't procession." keep up with the economic One predictable result of Lewis' policy: the number of coal miners at work in the U.S. has been more than halved (to 142,400) in the past ten years. And as displaced miners grow more and more desperate for jobs, they are increasingly willing to take work wherever they can find it - including nonunion mines. Last year one-third of the coal mined in the U.S. "captive" (excluding...
...organizing. Price cutting by the low-paying nonunion mines has become so acute that last week, in the heart of East Kentucky's depressed coal fields, a bitter battle was raging between the U.M.W...
...tough Henry LaViers, 62, the owner of three small unionized coal mines...