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But the Sodality is proudest of the memory of one Pierian but for whom its 135 year tradition would not exist. He was an individualist named Henry Gassett of the class of 1834, and he played the flute. When, in 1832, complaints about the Sodality's night music led...
> Most unusual of all in point of ordinary union practice was the final table: 35 pages listing dues and initiation receipts for every one of U.S.A.'s 1,800 locals (an almost exact mirror of new membership as well as of membership in good standing). Biggest dues contribution was...
In three weeks the U.S., grappling with war and winter, had suffered the most serious work stoppage since Pearl Harbor. Anthracite production had dropped from 1,300,000 tons a week to 888,000 tons. With the President's forced intervention, tithingman John L. Lewis had won the temporary...
On the street corners of dusty mine towns, in the beer taverns or standing in grim little groups near the black, smokeless collieries, idle hard-coal miners were bewildered too. They had struck hopelessly against John L. Lewis and a 50? monthly increase in United Mine Workers' dues. To...
The strike had started with the year's end. Under U.M.W.'s checkoff system of dues collection, coal companies had begun deducting 50? more for union dues than the usual $1 per month from miners' pay -the increase had been voted at the last U.M.W. convention. A...