Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt appointed William Walter McDowell, Montana politician and mine operator, to be Minister to the Irish Free State...
Where General Johnson's bullyragging and President Roosevelt's patriotic pleas had failed, 30,000 determined coal miners in Pennsylvania scored a major success for NRA last week. Only after they defied their union leaders and started another strike which threatened to engulf the industry were mine operators sufficiently terrified to sign a soft coal code...
First big strike of the NRA occurred last July in the same Pennsylvania coal fields (TIME, Aug. 7 et seq.). Starting in Fayette County, 50,000 miners walked out in protest against the operators' refusal to recognize John Llewellyn Lewis' United Mine Workers. Riot, bloodshed and death preceded Governor Pinchot's declaration of martial law and his dispatch of guardsmen. A temporary peace was patched up when President Roosevelt sent Deputy Administrator McGrady into the coal fields as his personal emissary to promise the strikers a square deal under NRA. With mining resumed, coal code negotiations...
Leader of the July strike was a young Irish redhead named Martin Ryan. He was president of the U. M. W. local at Colonial No. 4 mine of H. C. Frick Coke Co., U. S. Steel Corp. subsidiary. His glib influence over fellow workers was greater than that of Leader Lewis whose code activities in Washington Miner Ryan distrusted. He harangued the men out of the pits when Lewis implored them to stick. He was the last to consent to a compromise with the operators. As delay followed delay on the code, he blew hot words on the miners...
Early next morning 400 strikers gathered at the Gates mine of the Frick company, 15 mi. from, Uniontown. Six mine bosses followed by a few maintenance men started to shove through the pack. A picket leader jostled a mine guard. Stones began to fly. "Let 'em have it!" roared a mine boss. Bang-bang-bang went the mine guards' guns. Tear gas enveloped the strikers. One guard shot another guard's arm off by mistake. Fifteen strikers were dropped by bullets, their names a typical roster of U. S. mine labor: Louis Kromer, Steve Hrosky, George...