Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operators are preparing a publicity campaign of $500,000 to convince the country the mine workers are overpaid. "They do not yet know what the demands are going to be, but they are against them anyhow. They are employing the great Ivy Lee and other subsidiary concerns...
...commentary that they have so much money for advertising and so little for the men who produce the product. . . . The spread between mine cost and delivery cost is so great that it has never yet been properly explained to the American public, and it ill behooves the anthracite operators to tell the American people that wages must come down so the public can get a cheaper commodity...
...have given names and cited instances. If this condition continues, it may be necessary to authorize a nation-wide shutdown of all bituminous mines in the United States while the Government, the coal operators and the representatives of the mine workers discuss whether the Jacksonville agreement is going to be carried...
...Situation. The situation in the anthracite and bituminous coal industries is quite different. The United Mine Workers have virtual control of the anthracite producing area, but control only a part of the bituminous producing fields. It has never been able to force the check-off of Union dues upon anthracite operators. The check-off is a regular feature of the wage contract in the Unionized bituminous fields. In the anthracite fields, the production of coal has been conservative as compared to bituminous production, and there are fewer operators (the Federal Trade Commission, last week, published a report recommending measures...
Nevertheless, the submarines went out to reconnoitre while the mine sweepers swept the channel and the destroyers sped through, followed by the cruisers. The battleships up-anchored and the whole fleet assembled in the open sea. Airplanes from shore performed a few stunts overhead and the fleet was away...