Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tariffs. Then the Senate snagged on the bill's four tariff items-oil, coal copper lumber. Progress was halted under a deluge of angry oratory. Night sessions failed to break the deadlock. Republican Leader Watson dolefully announced: "Adjournment is still a long way over the horizon...
...Four and no more" was the motto of the Finance Committee when it wrote these tariff items into its tax bill. Progressive Republicans and low-tariff Democrats loudly denounced their inclusion as the result of logrolling. An apparent Democratic trade: Barkley of coal-producing Kentucky would vote for an oil tariff if Connally of oil-bearing Texas would vote for a coal duty. Hayden of copper-mining Arizona would support both levies if Messrs. Barkley and Connally would help him get a rate on copper...
Amid great acrimony the oil and coal tariffs were finally voted (43-to-37) and (39-to-34) into the bill. Then the Senate stalled on copper and lumber, bitterness of the antitariff opposition rose to a startling pitch. As a reprisal Senator Tydings engulfed the chamber with 504 tariff amendments to the tax bill. Shouted...
...coal truck was bringing a cargo of children from the shanties of striking Pennsylvania miners to Pittsburg, where they intended to beg what little they might get to supplement the Union's vanishing reserves. They were scantily clad in incongruous cast-offs, and their only food for the day was a slice of bread soaked in unpalatable coffee, but they sang with a verve derogatory ditties about the police and patriots. The pinch of hunger had wizened their faces and made them look four or five years older than they were, but it had left their spirits free...
...unbearable conditions of the workers in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky are typified by this incident. The Communist organizers have taken advantage of the situation to win an unreasoning allegiance for their cause, and to implant hatred for the operators even in the children. According to their own ethics they are completely justified in ignoring the plight of the operators who have faced insuperable difficulties on account of the growing use of substitutees for coal. In the same spirit the capitalists feel no compunctions in employing every means to combat the miners, even...