Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coal Strike. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, told the convention that the anthracite mine operators were mulcting the public by selling inferior grades of coal for more expensive grades, and that the public had been lulled into a false security. Said...
...approve the efforts of the mine workers in their demands for increased wages, improved working conditions and complete recognition of the union. In the name of the millions of organized workers in America, we approve their policies and extend to to them the hand of fellowship and mutual cooperation...
...West Virginia coal fields are unionized only in small part. But Van A. Bittner, agent of the United Mine Workers, has been busy there trying to bring that region under the Union's dominance. He issued a strike order that took effect last week, and the mine leaders led by Mr. Lewis went down to celebrate the opening of the strike in an effort to make it successful...
...usual injunctions were got out against Mr. Lewis, 19 of them restraining him from interfering with the production of coal at the non-Union mines. Nineteen injunctions were leveled at Vice President Murray of the United Mine Workers, three against Secretary Kennedy...
Said Mr. Lewis of the operators: "They have torn up their wage contracts. They have closed their mines for long periods in order to starve their employes into submission; they have evicted their employes from their homes; they have manned their properties with armed mine guards, searchlights, barbed wire fences, stockades and such paraphernalia of war; they have resorted to the use of unfriendly courts and have sought to bind the workers hand and foot by the issuance of court injunctions stripping the worker of nearly every right guaranteed him under the Constitution; they have, in substance and effect, conducted...