Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine men sat down to discuss the miners' demand for a "checkoff" system in the anthracite mines. Four of them were operators' representatives, four miners' officials, and one was Rinaldo Cappellini, who was seated unofficially because on Aug. 1 he was to have officially displaced one of the miners' representatives...
...take union dues and union assessments from the pay envelopes of the members of the mine union. This system is in use in bituminous coal mines. The operators do not like it because they are obliged to collect funds which may be later used against them. The union miners demand it because it is a sure way of collecting dues. The operators object to it, asserting that it is illegal, un-American and that in effect it forces a closed shop, giving the United Mine Workers a labor monopoly. The miners' officials demand it, declaring that it is not illegal...
...Resolved: That the principle of complete recognition of the United Mine Workers and the check-off as expressed in Demand No. 1 be adopted...
...when construction costs were rapidly mounting, the labor situation became easier. Now, instead of attempting to overdo production, the industry is apparently entering a period of steadier and less expensive even if slower construction. An analysis of the country's building requirements shows that the present demand for buildings-a survival of the long war period of inadequate construction-would warrant for the next ten years a building program 25% above normal production. The problem will be to keep down the costs of this unusually large program, in order that when rentals fall to a lower and more stable...
...passed from its common to its preferred stockholders. The latter, organized by H. H. Lehman as a Stockholders' Committee, have elected a new Board of Directors, including among them H. L. Doherty, and will undertake to raise new capital for the concern. Mr. Doherty holds a demand note against the Company for $1,200,000, secured by $3,000,000 worth of pipe line and tank cars...