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...strike truce but had also hornswoggled out of Capital & Labor a high-sounding agreement to keep the peace while he did his NRA job. Almost overnight the Pennsylvania coal strike had flared up from a local ruckus in Fayette County to a national menace. Trouble started with H. C. Frick Coke Co., a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp. A few thousand Frick workers joined the United Mine Workers of America and struck in protest against the formation of company unions. The issue was whether the non-union Frick company would recognize the national union. It would not - on orders...
...with the striking hosiery workers in Reading, Philadelphia and Lansdale, the issue in Fayette County was Unionization under the National Recovery Act. Focus of trouble was the non-union H. C. Frick Coke Co., subsidiary of the non-union U. S. Steel Corp. Even before the Recovery Act was passed in June, Frick Coke started organizing a company union, told its workers to sign up, picked representatives for them to elect as officers. Simultaneously United Mine Workers began a membership drive among Frick employes. Fortnight ago unionized miners held a protest parade at Maxwell. Deputy sheriffs hired by Frick Coke...
Twenty Fayette mines closed down. Picket lines were formed. Deputy sheriffs shot down four strikers. Frick Coke was accused of importing gunmen from New York-a charge its president hotly denied. Strikers sniped at mine guards, nearly killed one. All the makings for an ugly labor war were at hand...
...steel industry's backdown on "company unions" at NRA hearings in Washington did not diminish U. S. Steel's resistance to unionization in the coal fields. As a matter of "common sense" Governor Pinchot attempted to mediate the Fayette County trouble by summoning United Mine Workers and Frick Coke officials to a peace conference-a meeting which would put the non-union company into direct negotiation with its union...
...victorious German revolution has entered upon a stage of evolution," wrote Dr. Frick. "That means normal, legal, constructive work. This task must be seriously endangered if there is a continuance of revolution or talk of a second revolution. Whosoever talks of such must understand he is thereby revolting against his leader and will be dealt with accordingly. . . . From now on power rests with the Government and with the Government alone!" Sure, perhaps prematurely, that German business is really going to be largely let alone by the Nazi State, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen lent eager aid to a Nazi press...