Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a few days of practice, young Dave set out for the Columbia Bank Building, found the office of the United Mine Workers, introduced himself to Vice President Murray. Murray was impressed by the youth's speed on the typewriter. A Roman Catholic himself, Murray was equally impressed when McDonald told him he had organized the Holy Cross High School Alumni Association, was busy organizing the Pittsburgh Catholic Alumni Association. McDonald was hired. Two days later he reported for work, found himself with Murray on a train headed for a New York conference of mine union officials...
...since 1953 have been getting the same pay as northern workers. Another sizable achievement is that, behind the scenes, he had much to do with arranging the tricky merger of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last year. Ahead he has two strong ambitions, 1) to be invited to address the United Mine Workers, and 2) to bring John L. Lewis back to the newly united house of labor...
Hale announced that he would not go through with the appointment of a Negro minister. "I could never conscientiously subject him to the heart-breaking experience which has been mine," he explained. "As your minister I have failed to help you generate the kind of spiritual energy which is a prerequisite for significant community leadership." He added that he was submitting his resignation as minister, effective July 1957. "This advance date will give us opportunity for another year of thinking and working together and, if either minister or people have unjustifiably wronged each other, then there will be time...
Word has seeped back that Ling Hsingyu, formerly a student at New York University, returned to Red China only to find himself in a labor camp. Huang Chiateh, once a professor at Shanghai's St. John's University, was put to work in a coal mine. One student was compelled to write a "thought compendium," and, for "lack of frankness," to slap himself publicly until blood ran out of his mouth. Often Red China's own propaganda betrays itself. "You people living in the other world don't understand our world," another returnee wrote to friends...
Wilson: Well, I have great sympathy for Prime Minister Eden. I don't believe his problems are too different from mine...