Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's dissociation of wages and prices was sound strategy as an appeal-sounder, if less realistic, than the way John L. Lewis linked them inseparably at his United Mine Workers' convention (see p. 11). But when reporters started to ask the President if he meant to do something about prices, he said with a wave of his long cigaret holder that the conversation was getting too "iffy...
Constitution Hall, the only auditorium in Washington big enough for the biennial convention of the United Mine Workers of America, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution. There John L. Lewis' miners met in 1936, there they expected to meet this year-until a few weeks ago when the D. A. R. changed its mind...
Upshots were that: 1) the Journal of the United Mine Workers announced "everyone knows that the Daughters of the American Revolution is an aristocratic high-hat institution whose members parade around like peafowls in silks and sealskins and imagine themselves the elect of the human race;" 2) catty whispers around D. A. R. headquarters intimated that one experience with miners had proved that the spittoon equipment of Constitution Hall was entirely inadequate; 3) the miners, 2,000 strong last week trooped through the dingy entrance of the old Rialto Theatre to attend their big meeting...
This has long been the contention of Pennsylvania's ambitious New Deal Governor Earle, who was elected with the support of potent United Mine Workers Union. Year ago he appointed an Anthracite Commission to investigate. The Commission, headed by C. I. O.'s Economic...
...early years of the New Deal a vicious civil war was fought in the Illinois coal fields between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the Progressive Miners of America, a revolting group which has since been welcomed into A. F. of L. The bullets have ceased singing but in the courts the struggle continues. Nearly two score Progressives were convicted in a Federal court in Springfield, Ill. of conspiracy to interfere with the mails and interstate commerce by dynamiting trains (TIME, Dec. 27). Last week another case originating on that dark and bloody ground was decided in East...