Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Kathryn Lewis' face, bare of rouge and lipstick, adamant against press photographers, was whiter, more tired than usual. Waiting by a telephone, she breathed: "I do, do hope they'll settle." They were her father, his United Mine Workers lieutenants and a committee of bituminous coal operators who, off & on since Feb. 17 in Manhattan, had been negotiating a new two-year working contract to replace the one expiring midnight March 31. That deadline had already passed without agreement as Kathryn Lewis talked, and in twelve States some 400,000 men had laid down their tools...
...year, a two-week vacation with pay. With the 35-hr, week preserved, basic pay was raised 50? per day-to $6 in the North, $5.60 in the South-with increases of 55?to $1 per day for machine and piece work employes. Also for the first time, soft-coal miners were promised time-&-a-half pay for overtime...
...Reader Nicolais mend her dates, recall that the Zinovieff letter figured in the British general election of 1924, two years before leaders of the British coal strike received through Lloyds and other banks some $2,000,000 from the Commercial and Industrial Bank...
Hugh Johnson was quite right that neither man was the kind to get himself bogged down in words. John Lewis' middle name is Lewellyn but he is the man who in some of the toughest years in one the toughest industries-Coal-put together the biggest single union in the U. S. Walter Chrysler's middle name is Percy but he is the man who as a young railroad machinist made his first mark by repairing a broken cylinder head on a locomotive in two hours to meet an emergency, who bought his first automobile just to take...
Easter night Mr. Lewis had to leave for Manhattan to negotiate with coal operators for his United Mine Workers, whose wage contract expires this week. Walter Chrysler continued in session with Mr. Lewis' aides, but sessions were abbreviated so that Governor Murphy could give his attention to other strikes...