Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor controversies stirred up by NIRA. Both disputes flunked the National Labor Board because nowhere in the law was that agency, an extra-legal body backed only by the President's prestige, given authority to force settlements in the backwash of NRA code-making. The Ford and coal strikes exemplified the stubborn militancy of Labor to overreach itself, the stubborn militancy of Capital to resist to the limit...
Many a miner considers President Lewis a strikebreaker. That is because he called off the 1919 coal strike in the face of a Federal injunction with the statement that "We can't fight the Government." He was also accused of strikebreaking when in 1927 after the lapse of the Jacksonville agreement he permitted temporary wage contracts to be negotiated in Illinois and Indiana...
...strike. Frank Farrington, U. M. W. leader in Illinois, accused him of receiving $100,000 from Kentucky operators for letting them run while northern mines were closed. Later President Lewis showed that Leader Farrington was down for $25,000 per year on the payroll of Peabody Coal...
...oats. Broadway Joe takes the bag, pats the midget, blandly remarking: "That's her son. This is her fodder." Assisted by uncouth Dave Chasen, Mr. Cook finally removes his hack and horse from the stage. Messrs. Cook & Chasen have provided themselves with trainmen's caps. They pour coal into Magnolia's flank. She lights up, chuffs smoke through her nostrils, trembles from flashing fire box to cowcatcher, and finally roars metallically into the wings. Past master of absurdity and surprise, Joe Cook regularly employs three property men of his own to supplement his production's stage...
...fought over in all the others. Recently the Administration has, on the one hand, attempted to dodge the issue by refusing to talk about it, and on the other, has deprecated the use of the striking right where it has been exercised. But now in the case of the coal codes, the miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia have split away from the hush-hush guidance of John Lewis and have by militant action forced the question squarely before Washington. "Are unions going to be recognized...