Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This same coal strike had been called five times, postponed five times since February (TIME, April 8, et seq.). Chief reason given for the postponements was that both sides were waiting for the passage of the Guffey Coal Bill to establish a "little NRA" in the soft coal industry, assure miners good wages and operators good prices. The Guffey Bill had been passed three weeks, and the National Bituminous Coal Commission and the Bituminous Coal Labor Board, which were to settle production and wage questions, had been appointed three days when the strike finally came off this week. When puzzled...
Notable feature of the strike was its good-nature. The operators, with nearly two months' surplus on hand, apparently had decided just to let matters slide until they found out if the Guffey Bill was constitutional. No less imperturbable, the miners and their estimated 1.000,000 dependants figured that they would not lose much 'by going on the relief rolls for a while. ("Certainly our people expect relief," said President John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers.) In this atmosphere the strike had been called when neither side would budge over a wage concession which would have lifted the whole...
...other ardent New Dealers for the job of putting Democrats on the Philadelphia map. Athlete Kelly promptly kicked out the machine Democrats who, by grace of Boss Vare, had for years played piccolo in Philadelphia's political orchestra. Today City Boss Kelly can and has told State Boss Guffey what he would and would not permit. This week he is running for Mayor on the platform of a 5¢ fare (in place of 7½¢ tokens), WPA money to rebuild Philadelphia's slums, sandblasting for the outside of the City Hall, ejection of bums who sleep in its corridors...
...ceremonies a day took place last week in the White House office. While proud Congressional parents stood at his elbow, the President baptized bill after bill with "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Not one important bill left by Congress did he veto. Proudest signing of the week was that of the Guffey Coal Bill attended by a host of Congressional godfathers, watched over by John L. Lewis and other officers of the United Mine Workers and followed at once by 1) steps to call off the coal strike scheduled for Sept. 24 and 2) a suit filed by Carter Coal...
...Guffey Coal Bill v/hich enacted into Federal law most of the old Bituminous Coal Code...