Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Policies Committee of the Anthracite Coal Operators issued a statement in an endeavor to refute charges made by the United Mine Workers that the coal operators were profiteering. The chief point of debate between the miners and the operators is the matter of cost of production...
Coincident with the charge of profiteering made against the operators by the United Mine Workers is a bitter attack upon them by the Hearst papers, who accuse the operators of selling the public "fireproof" coal. The Hearst papers are carrying their fight in the back page editorials and the operators are counter attacking in full page paid advertisements in the Hearst papers. Whether the charges are substantiated or not Mr. Hearst will get the full rates on coal publicity...
Coal. The German mine owners failed to pay the tax imposed on them; but France has been unable to carry out her threat of commandeering the surface coal massed at the pit-heads, owing to the shortage of labor. She has, however, stated that every effort will be made to obtain foreign labor with which to move the coal and coke in the Ruhr...
...their conviction to resist the French. The " Franco-Belgian Entente " says that the real object of the Ruhr is to speed up coal deliveries, which seems tantamount to admitting defeat. They have, however, decided to requisition coal in the pits with their own labor backed by force, if the mine owners fail to pay a coal tax. But the true aim of the French and Belgians seems to be a separate agreement with Germany and the abandonment of the Versailles treaty...
Princess Yolanda of Italy: "The New York Journal published accounts of my impending marriage on April 9, and of Pola Negri's breaking her engagement to Charles Chaplin. But they published my picture over Miss Negri's name and her's over mine...