Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike had not been settled. Fayette County miners, suspicious of the truce, refused to return to work at once. Over the weekend Leader Lewis worked frantically to regain control of his men, implored them to honor his signature on the armistice terms. Animosity was directed principally against the Frick mines whose reopening, under threat of renewed picketing and warfare, had to be post-poned one day. The Fayette County sheriff talked of appealing for U. S. troops to maintain peace. To prevent a recurrence of the Pennsylvania coal troubles elsewhere NRA appealed to the country for a moratorium on strikes...
...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...
...turned promoter on a grand scale. He merged coal properties around Pittsburgh (many of them Mellon owned) into two great companies and sold their stock to the public. He merged the Pittsburgh traction companies (many of them Mellon owned). T. Mellon & Sons private bank became Mellon National. Andrew and Frick got an option on Carnegie Steel Co. for $160,000,000. Mellon agreed to raise $80,000,000 of the price and asked J. P. Morgan (the elder - the present J. P. Morgan was still in his financial nonage) to take the other half. Morgan refused, said the price...
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...