Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second and final week of the Convention of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis was marked by drama and commotion. The one matter in which the public was most interested, the question of what wage demands the bituminous miners would make, and whether they would force a strike on April 1 when their wage contract expires, was settled with nothing stronger than argument and the ballot...
...Thomas Myerscough of Pittsburgh, Secretary of the Progressive International Committee of the United Mine Workers (a communist organization attempting to "bore from within" the union) applied for reinstatement in the union. The Committee on Appeals and Grievances denied his request because he had organized a "dual" union (political and industrial...
Meanwhile he had got into trouble with the United Mine Workers. He was suspended from the national organization and his district deprived of its charter for insubordination, for refusing to comply with a request for an accounting of the Kansas district's funds, and refusing to turn over its property to the national organization. He made a fight for reinstatement two years ago and was defeated. The Committee on Appeals and Grievances ruled again against Howat's appeal on the old grounds and because he had organized a "dual" union...
...Afterwards Mr. Lewis issued a statement: "The United Mine Workers has been made the target by these gray wolves of a pernicious philisophy. The master minds of radicalism in America have been hovering around the Indianapolis convention and nightly they assembled in their dens to lay their plans for stampeding the convention on the following...
...answer to the communication of Mr. Keyes '26 in a recent issue of the CRIMSON relative to the statement of mine concerning the Teapot Dome scandal an explanation seems necessary...