Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your subcommittee of the Ways & Means has pending . . . [the Guffey] bill to stabilize the bituminous coal mining industry. ... I understand that questions of the Constitutionality of some of its provisions have arisen. . . . Manifestly, no one is in apposition to give assurance that the proposed act will withstand Constitutional tests, for the simple fact that you can get not ten but a thousand different legal opinions on the subject. But the situation is so urgent and the benefits of the legislation so evident that all doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill, leaving to the courts, in an, orderly...
...begin Monday morning. What strike? asked the President. Why, the soft coal strike, said the Secretary. Oh, was there going to be a coal strike? The President had not heard of it. It had been postponed to July 1 when he had promised to press for passage of the Guffey Coal Bill and he had assumed it would be postponed again. Hastily the President asked McIntyre to get Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins on the telephone. After some difficulty "Mac" located her lunching with Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Perkins had not known there was to be a coal strike. Besides...
...Guffey, Minton, Moore, Burke (in chorus): We object. Long: If there should be no objection, we would all be happy, everybody would be happy. ... I should like to get an agreement, if possible. However, there is no chance-no chance of agreement...
...bituminous mine operators, who will continue to pay high wages if the Government will continue to help hold coal prices up. Miner Lewis, abetted by the owners, has been working a trade with the Administration whereby he would call off his coal strike in return for passage of the Guffey bill. This measure, devised and sponsored by the first Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania in 54 years, would declare soft coal a public utility; authorize the Government to buy up $300,000,000 worth of submarginal coal lands; enforce adherence to a code by means of a tax, 99% of which...
Though the Guffey bill was prominently listed among the President's "must" legislation for this session, Attorney General Cummings, it was learned, had been quietly asked by the White House to look the measure over in its present form, give the Administration a steer as to whether it was constitutional...