Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week concluded with the return of John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, to the scene of the negotiations. He straightway dispatched a letter to Samuel D. Warriner, President of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., charging that the operators' negotiating committee was composed mostly of underlings and had no intention of coming to an agreement, and charging that Mr. Warriner and W. J. Richards (President of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Corporation), who had been two of the chief negotiators in: previous years, were holding back. He said that the conference so far meant nothing...
...Lewis that the operators had given full powers to their negotiating committee, that they had chosen their representatives and did not intend to change them at the dictation of the miners. "You would, I am sure, resent any attempt by us to say who should represent the mine workers. We must maintain the same right to say who shall represent the operators. This right has been exercised, and the personnel of the committee can not be changed...
...conference committee this year that is almost entirely new-the former "big guns" being absent. The miners saw or professed to see in this an intention by the operators to hold their "big guns" back for a final assault. As a result, John L. Lewis, President of the Union Mine Workers, left the conference after the opening session, "called away on business," and did not return. Each side accused the other of insincerity in sending "underlings" as negotiators. Each insisted that its conferees were fully empowered to reach an agreement, that it was not stalling...
...Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers in West Virginia, wired Secretary of Commerce Hoover that soft-coal producing companies were attempting to break their wage contract (negotiated at Jacksonville, Fla., a year ago last spring). He said that attempts were being made to lower wages 50%, that armed gunmen were being employed to intimidate the miners, that hundreds of miners were being evicted from their homes by their employer landlords, that, if the Federal Government did not take a stand against the breaking of the wage contract by soft-coal miners, the Union miners of hard and soft coal...
This gloomy situation was engendered last week when the mine owners had bills pasted at the pitheads announcing their irrevocable decision to end the present wage agreement (TIME, July 27) on the last day of July. Employment for most grades would be at the same rates of pay for a longer working day. As a countermove, the Miners' Federation instructed the miners to cease work on July 31. Preparations to this effect were made and compromise arrangements were made to safeguard the mines from flooding. In the background the objects of a proposed Labor alliance, embracing 3,000,000 miners...