Word: lota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miners' demand for a 55-peso ($2.20) daily minimum wage had been rejected; the company's counter offer of a 15% pay rise (16?) had been turned down. A month's patient mediating by the Government had ended in failure. Last week, the coal miners of Lota stayed in their grubby little dirt-floor huts on the edge of the Pacific and the strike...
...Life. Government files contain reports on the miseries of Lota-its mine galleries reaching out under the sea, its underhoused town, its undernourished children. One of the reports says that no Chilean family can subsist on less than 65 pesos ($2.60) daily. But 33-year-old Juan Soto, a typical miner, who has dug Lota's coal for 16 years, gets 30 pesos for an eight-hour day's work. Neither he nor his wife and three small children remember having ever bought cheese or fruit, but they do get some milk...
...takes Juan four hours a day to get to & from his work, which is sometimes as much as five miles out under the ocean. The tunnels are hot and humid. In the big Lota mine, there have been 8,151 accidents and 38 deaths in the past 20 months...
...common man, was so weary of cramming into broken-down trolleys, standing in line for tea, and going without a new shirt that he was apt to buy a cheap bottle of vino and say to hell with it all. Or, working at 75? a day in Lota's undersea coal mines where cave-ins occur almost daily, and living in a hillside of hovels where each year more babies die than are born, he turned to Communism...
...Happiness, by Therese Lewis and Lota Kriendler, for Helen Hayes. A cleverly strung idyl of parting and reconciliation, just what was in the tea leaves for Actress Hayes...