Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truro last week, the annual convention of District 26, United Mine Workers of America, drew up its demands for 1949 wages. First & foremost was a whopping general increase of $2.56 a day over the present $7.64 basic rate. There were also carefully scaled demands for men who work at the coal face. Explained one union official: "It's a new type of policy we've adopted, with emphasis on the actual production of coal at the face . . . It's all bent towards increased production for the industry...
...delegates at Truro, representing 13,000 miners, wanted face workers like Tossy to make as much in five shifts as they now make in seven. This might be possible, if production goes up fast enough. Although District 26 has agreed to mechanization, it still wants assurance that there will be jobs for the men laid off-preferably new jobs created by the development of new industries, especially steel products, in the Sydney area...
...Pouce Coupé, B.C. and other points in the Peace River district, snow and frost damaged crops...
...into the main building, built new reading rooms, demanded-and got-a tripled library budget. He found a deposit of $250,000 that had been willed to the library and never used. He built two new branch libraries, one of them the first to be built in a Negro district since 1910. Last week his third new building was going...
...Girdler. In 1938, to find out whether Adirondack ore was rich enough to warrant its cost, he leased the Mineville and Port Henry properties from the Witherbee Sherman Corp. Girdler soon bought up another ancient mine and 115,000 acres in the mineral-rich Chateaugay district, dug shafts, built mills and narrow-gauge railroads. The Government helped him get labor. During the war it financed the building of his dormitory villages with churches, hospitals and a swimming pool. Last week Republic had an Adirondack working force of 1,550, and Girdler had the urge to tell the industry...