Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strict truth, the debate was not over. During the convention, United Mine Workers' President Lewis had inserted in the convention record a catalog of accusations against the shortcomings of Green & Co.'s administration. No Federation action, said Miner Lewis, had been taken on 46 Congressional bills urged at the previous annual meeting. A. F. of L. had failed to push for equality of wages for women, had ignored 24 studies and investigations ordered by the delegates in 1934. Last week the record of last month's convention was available at A. F. of L.'s headquarters...
...crafts. This is not going to suffice in those industries where the line between the craft and the unskilled workers is not discernible." Miner Lewis claimed to have lined up not only his own huge industrial union but the International Typographical Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Ladies' Garment Workers, Mine, Mill & Smelter Union, milliners, rubber and brewery workers. However, he was at pains to disclaim any ambition to unseat William Green, vowed that the quarrel would be conducted within the Federation...
With hundreds of thousands of onetime coal miners on the dole and misery stalking the "depressed areas," coal mine owners claim they cannot raise wages because their combined operating profit for the whole United Kingdom last year was only ?4,000,000. The miners demand a combined wage increase of ?16,500,000 and their nation-wide vote last week authorized miner leaders to order a coal strike unless this demand...
John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers; Joseph Turney, assistant to Joseph B. Eastman, Director of Railroads; L. D. H. Weld, research director of McCann-Erickson; Robert L. O'Brien '91, chairman of the Federal Tariff Commission and former editor of the Boston Herald-Traveler; and Walter Lippmann...
...murmuring, 'God bless you, doctor.' "The fourth case was a man suffering from the same disease and unable to eat, drink or sleep. He was in agony beyond the torment of the damned. He also died with a smile on his face and with his hand in mine. "The fifth case [had] the same disease.* I had no hesitation in ending his life." The author of this confession, printed last week in the London Daily Mail, added that his conscience had never stabbed him, that he would act similarly in similar circumstances, that he would willingly face...