Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleven demands. The chief demands were 1) a 20% increase of wages, 2) maximum eight-hour day (only 3,000 or 4,000 of the 150,000 men represented have not an eight-hour day, yet this is one of the major demands), 3) complete recognition of the United Mine Workers (which means virtually a closed shop...
...result of the massacre, W. J. Lester, owner of the Lester strip mine, planned damage suits against the Illinois Mine Workers' Union. The union settled the entire matter by buying the Lester strip mine- at the price...
About 40 anthracite miners' and 25 mine operators' representatives met to consider the demands which the United Mine Workers (Districts 1, 7 and 9) are making for a new contract to supplant the present one expiring on August 31 (TIME, July 9). The conference opened at Atlantic City. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, led the miners. The Presidents of each of the Districts were present also, and with William J. Brennan, the head of District 1, was Rinaldo Cappellini, the young and fiery President-elect...
...fact finding capacity, the Commission did not confine itself merely to gathering statistics, but also drew general conclusions. The more important points of the report follow: ¶Existing property rights in anthracite mines should not be abolished either by Government purchase or by expropriation. ¶The Government should exercise control of the industry and also, if at any time the supply of anthracite is cut off by labor troubles or otherwise, the President should be empowered to declare an emergency, take over the mines temporarily, fix wages, mine, transport and distribute coal. ¶The retail price of anthracite has practically...
...pictures in the collection of Sir Joseph Robinson, millionaire mine operator of South Africa, brought $938,178 at Christie's - the largest sum ever realized in a single day's sale at the famous old London firm. The top price of $88,920 was fetched by Frans Hals' Portrait of a Gentleman, 19 times what it cost in 1885 when it left the de Zoete collection. The Hals is 45¼ by 35¼ inches, and shows a noble standing figure with pointed beard, ruff, black costume and hat, yellow gloves. None of the pictures are likely...