Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase of $3 a car, regardless of distance of shipment, on coal, certain ores, stone, gravel, posts, lumber, box wood, furnace slag...
...been very well looked after at any rate," piped a coal miner...
American Chicle $ 527 $ 616 Atlantic Refining 1,241 2,025 Auburn Automobile 977 178 Beechnut Packing 444 758 Curtis Publishing 2,869 3,936 General Electric 9,873 13,889 Industrial Rayon 333 362 Johns-Manville 261 1,202 Lehigh Valley Coal 26 183 Mathieson Alkali 387 489 Motor Products Corp 51d 15 Nash 1,906* 1,777* Otis Elevator 1,171 2,022 Peoples Gas Light & Coke 1,159 1,356 Sangamo Electric 335 286 Scott Paper 235 251 Seagrave Corp 1d 45d Union Oilf 3,200 8,000 United Biscuit 481 555 United Fruit 264 1,364 Western...
...defunct with a claimed strength of 68,000. A little closer to the centre the line is occupied by the Trade Union Unity League, commanded by William Zebulon Foster, No. 1 U. S. Communist. Liveliest unit in this organization is the National Miners Union which was active in the coal fields of the Pittsburgh area last spring (TIME, July 6). The T. U. U. L. claims 100,000 members, although it is estimated only 7,000 of them actually pay dues...
...These are isolated instances and do not amount to much when it is considered that the unionized strength of steelworkers has melted to insignificance, that from 1920 to 1930 textile workers lost 70,000 members, the International Association of Machinists lost 252,000 and so on down the line. Coal miners were organized 37% in 1910, 21% in 1930. Why the decline in unionization...