Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, one of the coal companies referred to in your issue of Feb. 13, 1928, under the heading of ''LABOR HORROR IN PENNSYLVANIA...
...rates given other commodities, notably agricultural. 2) It would tend to precipitate rate-cutting by railroads (Baltimore & Ohio, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Wheeling & Lake Erie) which carry coal to the same market from competing mines in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Rate wars are against the public interest, especially Labor's, and are one of the evils the I. C. C. was founded to suppress...
...respondents promptly accused the I. C. C., as it had been accused before, of presuming to equalize prosperity between two competing sections of the country, i.e. to help the West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio coal interests out of the bog into which their labor troubles have thrust them. This the I. C. C. has no power to do, as was sharply suggested by the Senate last month. The barb in the Senate's pending investigation of the I. C. C. (TIME, Feb. 20) is a clause directing the Commissioners to cite statutory authorities for each & every one of their...
When the operators got their innings, they dressed the Senators up in mining togs and sent them riding on little cars through long, damp, dark coal galleries but continued to refuse intimate information about their businesses until it could be delivered under oath, beside Labor's testimony, when the investigators sit in judgment...
Well might Scot MacDonald cry out last week against mind-moulding and throat-cutting which is sure to weaken the Labor party...