Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unique among Colorado coal diggers is Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., second in production only to Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp. Rocky Mountain is the only Colorado colliery to employ union labor. Last week Rocky Mountain became unique in another respect: 600 of its Union miners voted to go without half their wages for three months. Miss Josephine Roche, the company's 40-year-old, black-haired, thoroughly feminine president, gladly accepted their offer...
Early last summer Rocky Mountain announced to the Colorado Industrial Commission that the 1929 wage scale would be maintained. Colorado Fuel & Iron followed suit with a similar pledge for its non-union miners. But late in July, C. F. & I. abruptly announced a 25% wage cut, with base pay cut to $5.22 per day. All other important companies in the State except Rocky Mountain made like reductions. Miss Roche publicly appealed to John Davison Rockefeller Jr., C. F. & I. owner: "One word from you can prevent a recurrence of the human and economic waste which will result from the action...
...Detroit Senator James Couzens, onetime Ford partner, offered to contribute $1,000,000 to the municipal relief fund provided the Mayor's Committee collected $9,000,000 from other private sources. Visiting his Iron Mountain, Mich, factory, Henry Ford laid down a new rule: "Next year every man with a family who is employed at the plant will be required to have a garden of sufficient size to supply his family with part of its winter vegetables. Those who do not comply with the rule will be discharged...
...Havana Federal authorities clamped an iron lid on all news. To test the censorship, the New York Times telephoned U. S. bankers in Havana. Their call went through immediately, but every time the revolution was mentioned the connection was abruptly cut. But no censorship can stop Cubans from talking. Havana, seeing the battle of Gibara through the bottoms of innumerable beer glasses, received a far more colorful picture: not three dozen Cubans but a foreign legion of 500 Cubans, French, Germans, Japanese and U. S. citizens had landed under command of a mysterious U. S. Colonel.* The streets ran with...
Alfred Irénée du Pont is 67, has one eye and an irascible nature. His 500-acre estate ("Nemours") near Wilmington is guarded by a high, barbaric wall. Firmly cemented in its top are great jagged pieces of glass. The gates are made of iron grillwork backed with steel sheeting. No unwelcome eye may look at "Nemours," no unwelcome feet tread its lawns...