Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergoing a period of adjustment. Supply had outrun demand. Small operators, or operators with large overhead, were pinched by competition and could buy coal more cheaply than mine it. These, apparently, were reasons why the operators had abrogated the Jacksonville minimum wage agreement of 1924. Secretary of Labor Davis had asserted in October, at the A. F. of L. convention in Los Angeles, that the coal industry is overmanned by 300,000 men (TIME...
Secretary of Labor Davis, however, had evidently been given full charge of bituminous ambiguities. Secretary Davis listened all one afternoon to blocky, shock-headed President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, whom he told he was "going to get busy with both sides at once." Director Hugh L. Kerwin of the Department of Labor's conciliation board, was another attentive listener to President Lewis. President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. said, during the coaldusted week: "I cannot speak for the other railroads*, but as far as the Baltimore & Ohio is concerned...
...required by law. The Commission investigated the conference and pronounced it unrepresentative of all the coal miners of Colorado. The conference offered to submit its demands to a referendum of all the miners at mass meetings. Then the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.'s company union, and other local labor bodies, discharged from their ranks all I. W. W. sympathizers. The Industrial Commission pronounced the I. W. W. an outlaw organization and its proposed strike illegal...
...founded at Chicago in 1905 by 203 delegates representing western miners, Socialists and remnants of the defunct American Labor Union. The purpose was to create a new, homogeneous labor body embracing not only the trade union memberships but unorganized agricultural and other unskilled laborers as well, especially the migratory ("foot-loose") class. "One big union" was the central idea of the autonomous crafts in operative idea of the autonomous crafts in the A. F. of L. The I. W. W. was for political action as well as economic. It was to prepare workers for a "Cooperative Commonwealth." Its constitution said...
...returned to Bucharest Premier Vintila Bratiano held an extraordinary session of his cabinet in one of the cars, and in another the Dowager Queen Marie addressed correspondents: "Jon Bratiano was a leader, a master, a man, whose unswerving friendship bound us together through long years of hard and difficult labor. We believed in each other, and my absolute loyalty to his ideals made us collaborators who kept the faith. I was strong enough to rejoice over his strength. . . . He now belongs to the ages. . . . We can but bow our heads...