Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ships. At the close of 1936 there were 867 U. S. and Canadian steamers, motorships and barges with a combined tonnage of 3,323,105 gross tons plying the Great Lakes. During the season they transported 50,200,666 net tons of ore, 44,699,443 tons of coal, 7,433,967 tons of grain and 12,080,672 tons of limestone to and from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo...
...Having previously killed an anti-Sit-Down rider on the Guffey-Vinson Coal Control Bill (TIME, April 12), passed (75 to 3) a resolution that began by declaring the Sit-Down "illegal and contrary to sound public policy" and continued with three times as many words condemning employers who use industrial spies, deny collective bargaining, foster company unions, engage in any other unfair labor practices as defined in the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Sent it to the House...
...Franklin Roosevelt's most useful, trusted and intimate Senate lieutenants. Stunned, therefore, were other Administration Senators when the clerk read off the terms of his amendment: "It is further declared to be the public policy of the United States that no employe of any producer of coal whose employment has been terminated, or who for any reason has ceased to work for such producer, shall remain upon the property upon which he was employed after he has received a written notice from such producer to leave such property...
Senator Robinson admitted that he disapproved of the Sit-Down. considered it illegal. So did other Senators who sprang up to object that the amendment was badly phrased and unjustly applied to coal miners, to blame the Sit-Down on employers' anti-union tactics. But Senator Johnson roared: "We do a great disservice to this Nation when in this body, gentlemen debate the Sit-Down strike and say it is unlawful but-but-but, and then begin to give fanciful reasons for its existence...
...Cabinet's new orders showed that the commissariats managed to "overfulfill" their total quotas in many cases by grossly underfulfilling certain subsidiary categories. The Commissariat for Food, for example, went over the top as a whole, while insufficiently supplying Russians with sugar, fruit, vegetables, butter and margarine. Coal, electricity and oil went statistically over the top. But last week the Cabinet sweepingly ordered all Soviet organizations to reduce their consumption of coal, electricity and oil by 10%. disclosing a breakdown of planning in the commissariat in which they are pigeonholed...