Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's coal-mining Fayette County heard the tramp of soldier feet last week for the first time since the great strike of 1922. Three hundred guardsmen were marched in under orders from Governor Gifford Pinchot which amounted to martial law. Eight thousand striking coal miners looked on stolidly as a week of petty riots and bloodshed ended in peace, only to flare up again in a rash of nasty fights which spread the general disorder into adjoining counties, stopping work in at least 30 collieries...
...elect as officers. Simultaneously United Mine Workers began a membership drive among Frick employes. Fortnight ago unionized miners held a protest parade at Maxwell. Deputy sheriffs hired by Frick Coke tossed tear bombs, provoked a clash. That started the strike which spread until last week 15,000 soft coal miners were out in Pennsylvania. When United Mine officials volunteered to negotiate a strike settlement, U. S. Steel flatly refused to dicker with them...
Every August Owner Ashton, a Saratoga Springs coal dealer, rents his farm for $7,500 to William Ziegler Jr., sports-man-treasurer of New York's Republican State Committee. Rest of the year he uses it chiefly as a place to raise turkeys. Thither he has imported many a blooded gobbler, a Swiss turkey expert to tend them...
...American Federation of Labor threatened to fight. Steel prices were to be based on new regional quotations instead of the old "Pittsburgh plus" system. Simultaneously eleven steel companies headed by Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Republic and Carnegie announced a 15% wage increase at once for about 100,000 workers. Soft Coal. This code represented only the unionized one-quarter of the bituminous industry, promised much controversy. Provided was an eight-hour day and an average 36-hour week for the year. Minimum pay: $5 per day for underground workers; $4 per day for outside men. Employes did not have to live...
Died. John Markle, 74, retired coal tycoon, Manhattan charitarian; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Starting with Pennsylvania anthracite properties inherited from his father, he bought up adjacent flooded mines, built the huge Jeddo Tunnel through three miles of rock to drain them. During the 1902 strike he fiercely called on President Roosevelt for Federal troops to subdue the United Mine Workers under John Mitchell. Disgruntled by the settlement of the strike, he gave up active supervision of his properties, moved to Manhattan. In 1907 he went totally blind, later recovered the use of his left eye. Good friend...