Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alarms among the United Mine Workers...
...Commander, Captain Reginald Rowan Belknap, D.S.M., entered Annapolis in 1887. Since then he has seen service in the Spanish War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Rebellion, the European War (during which he commanded the American Mine-laying Squadron in the North Sea). Following the War he commanded the Delaware and more recently served on the staff of the Naval War College at Newport...
...wage increase, according to the best figures available to me, will add 60¢ a ton to the cost of domestic sizes of anthracite at the mine. Of this amount not less than 10¢ can be and ought to be absorbed by the operators without any increase of price...
...compromise plan were theoretical sops to the union and in effect had already been granted. At the first conference of the miners and operators, the operators " agreed in principle" to the eight hour day; the existence for several years of wage contracts between the operators and the United Mine Workers has been in fact recognition of the principle of collective bargaining...
Died Captain Fred Walters," Blue Man " of Barnum's and Ringling Brothers' Circus, 68, in Manhattan, of heart disease. An autopsy showed that his heart, brain, muscles were as blue as his skin. This is attributed to silver poisoning contracted in an Australian mine...