Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your Oct. 2 issue is not too sympathetic of Labor in the NRA, in my opinion. I can fully appreciate that Labor, in the persons of Ryan and his fellow coal miners would logically protect themselves in the face of the reputed activities of the opposing mine owners. Your reports of the NRA and the labor disputes do not cite enough of the activities of the members & petty leaders of the different labor organizations. Too much of the racket appears. Doubt as to the success of the NRA is more frequently spoken of in quarters not heard from before...
...steelworkers clashed at Ambridge, Pa. Silk mill strikers marched 10,000 strong in Paterson. N.. J. Corset-makers and truck drivers struck in Manhattan. Grape pickers struck in Lodi. Calif. A strike of 10,000 machine tool and diemakers was on in Detroit. In Pennsylvania, 55,000 coal miners were still out (see p. 12). Philadelphia bakers left their ovens. Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board barely averted a strike by 650 commercial air pilots. A dozen striking window washers pulled two men off their ladders in Independence Hall, beat them and fought police. A quibbling jurisdictional strike...
...Pennsylvania. While the President thus addressed all U. S. Labor, he was particularly mindful of 55,000 insubordinate Pennsylvania coal miners. These men had originally struck to force recognition of their union. United Mine Workers of America, by non-union operators. In the code and contract that became operative last week, the miners had won this objective. Their union chief had ordered them back to work, when they demanded something more: recognition of U. M. W. by the operators of "captive"' mines- those owned by the non-union steel industry. The steel men had agreed to give their miners...
...United Miner Murray concluded his appeal even more strongly: "Today you are fighting the coal companies, but tomorrow, if you remain on strike, you will be fighting the Government of the United Slates. Today you are conducting a strike. But tomorrow you would be conducting a rebellion...
Nearly, but not quite, for besides being the biggest of all codes in point of persons affected, it involved consequences even more far-reaching, politically as well as economically, than the codes for basic coal, cotton, oil, steel, motors, lumber, leather, wool. It touched 1,000,000 stores, 5,000,000 employes and $30,000,000,000 of yearly trade by each & every U. S. citizen who can afford to buy so much as a pin. Upon it depended the Cost of Living...