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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fines authorized by the government against individual minors for each day of the soft coal strike brought not the slightest signs of a return to work. The fines, $1, $2 a day, will go to the United Mine Workers's Medical Fund, under the government contract...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Industry Shutdown Is Predicted As Consequence of Coal Strike; U.N. Committee will Study Veto | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...hour last summer. He never bothered much about other gains, such as safety devices and hospitalization, although he paid such things lip service. When the Government seized the mines last spring he wrung from it a 5?-per-ton royalty for a welfare fund. The major objective of Economic Royalist Lewis has always been higher wages. Although his new demands were not officially made public, they embraced a shortened week and a higher rate which would boost the hourly wage to about $1.88. He wanted the 5? royalty doubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Battle of Titans | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

With $36,941.64 alrady in the coffers and more contributions rolling in steadily the University Community Fund Drive Committee announced Wednesday that it had gone "over the top" of its $32,250 goal, and thus had become the only school in the Boston area to accomplish this feat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Tops Quota For Community Chest | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

Breaking down this figure, it was shown that the Faculty was responsible for the greater part of the total, more than $25,000. Undergraduates, including the Student Council donation, had added $2,231 to the Fund, while University employees had contributed close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Tops Quota For Community Chest | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

...might not come in 1947; if it did, neither UNRRA nor any international agency would be on hand to cope with it. That became virtually certain last week when the U.S. State Department turned down a proposal by UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia for a $400 million international relief fund to tide the world over the months between UNRRA's end, next Dec. 31, and the resumption of normal trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Like Tammany? | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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