Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...September, 198 delegates from Colorado mines met at Aguilar, Colo., under I. W. W. auspices. The delegates had been elected by mass-meetings at many a mine. They unanimously endorsed demands drawn up by the I. W. W. including: a) restoration of the Jacksonville minimum wage; b) recognition of the miners' state committee; c) recognition of the miners' agents at mine tripples to check coal weighing (to ensure fair pay for digging done...
...Aguilar conference filed notice of a strike with the Colorado Industrial Commission, as 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...
...presenting "A Doll's House" the Repertory Theatre Company has attempted something very dangerous. Ibsen is a mass of ill sorted elements and to put his old-fashioned attacks in the name of "sincerity" and the individual upon conventional morality and sentimentalism in their proper place and to make a drama out of one of his plays requires great acting...
...great mass of our people, . . . know that the doctrine of ease is the doctrine of decay. . . . The heart of the nation is sound...
From an automobile, Secretary Hoover viewed the water-wrecked Winooski Valley. In Montpelier, Vermont's capital, he sat down and studied reports. Then he went to Springfield, Mass., where the New England Council was holding its third annual conference. There he outlined what had happened, what might be done, methodically classifying both...