Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Mine Wrorkers promptly proceeded to elect their own members as check weighmen. These the mine superintendents of the non-union Frick and Pittsburgh companies refused to recognize, on the ground that their non-union employes were unrepresented. Thus a new deadlock was created and NRA's special coal arbitration board headed by General Electric's Gerard Swope had its first "grievance" to straighten out. After hearing both sides the board ordered that: 1) election notices were to be posted two days in advance at each mine; 2) the election was to be held at the mine entrance...
...Coal Codes. NRA hearings were held in Washington last week on 27 different codes for the bituminous industry. Non-union mine operators from Pennsylvania to Tennessee, who supply 50% of U. S. soft coal, stoutly backed a $4-per-day trade agreement which virtually outlawed United Mine Workers from collective bargaining Operators of union mines in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Colorado with about 25% of the country's soft coal production favored a $5-per-day code presented by United Mine Workers. Alabama mine owners took the most reactionary position by refusing to go in under any general code...
Another Baruch Man. Leaving pacification of the coal industry to General Johnson and his codemakers, President Roosevelt's new National Labor Board got off to a good start last week as a strike- settler in other troubled fields. Without waiting for New York's Senator Wagner, the regular chairman, to return from a European vacation, Dr. Leo Wolman of NRA's Labor Advisory Board took temporary command. Baltimore-born 43 years ago, this liberal economist has lately shot up to a position of major importance at NRA headquarters. He got his education at Johns Hopkins...
...last week the National Recovery Administration figured it had placed some 9,000,000 workers under work & wage codes signed by 1,000,000 employers. This showing, however, did not satisfy Recovery Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. Heavy industries (steel, automobiles, oil, coal) were harder to codify than expected. Re-employment figures did not seem to be keeping pace with the spread of the Blue Eagle. There was more & more talk about "chiselers." Said General Johnson: "We haven't started to apply the heat on this thing yet. This isn't a campaign of a week or a month...
More to the taste of local Welsh coal miners who had gathered for the festival by hundreds, was Poet the Rev. Simon Bartholomew Jones, son of a Cardigan farmer. "I have six brothers." cried Poet Jones, "and every one is like myself a poet...