Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...F. of L. men scarcely concealed their thoughts. President Coolidge had, they guessed, heard the operators' point of view from Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, whose interests control the Pittsburgh Coal Co., which was among the first to depart from the Jacksonville agreement...
Coal. The A. F. of L. week began with an interview at the fountainhead of executive intervention, the White House, where President Green & colleagues set forth the three great grievances of striking bituminous coal-miners-police brutality, suppression by injunction and "gigantic conspiracies" by the Interests (railroads, power companies, banks) to depress coal prices and crush union labor (TIME, Nov. 28). They asked President Coolidge to call a conference of miners and operators; and to suggest that Congress investigate police strikebreaking, injunctions, conspiracies...
...outrun demand. Small operators, or operators with large overhead, were pinched by competition and could buy coal more cheaply than mine it. These, apparently, were reasons why the operators had abrogated the Jacksonville minimum wage agreement of 1924. Secretary of Labor Davis had asserted in October, at the A. F. of L. convention in Los Angeles, that the coal industry is overmanned by 300,000 men (TIME...
...said, during the coaldusted week: "I cannot speak for the other railroads*, but as far as the Baltimore & Ohio is concerned I can say that we have never attempted to regulate the price of coal." Green on Injunctions. The United Press invited President Green of the A. F. of L. to write on strike injunctions. He wrote: "The American Federation of Labor and its 4,000,000 members have become alarmed at the action of certain judges. . . ." He cited injunctions written by Judges Schoonmaker and Langham of Pennsylvania, who viewed Labor Strikes as restraints of trade. He cited the Clayton...
...Colorado have been listening to I. W. W. organizers since last summer when the "Wobblies" engineered a "sympathetic" strike in behalf of the late anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti. Colorado mine operators discountenanced the comparatively conservative United Mine Workers some time ago, introducing company unions to replace branches of the A. F. of L. subsidiary. Wages having been depressed below the Jacksonville scale, the I. W. W., one of whose favorite phrases is "Yours till the next big strike," saw a chance to foment general unrest in Colorado after the success of their Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration. That, plus the natural desire...