Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arithmetic of Peace. No one was sure just what price Lewis had exacted in terms of hourly wage increases for his miners. The United Mine Workers said 35?; the operators said closer to 45?. The arithmetic was complicated by changing the $11.85 nine-hour day to a $13.05 eight-hour day (including an hour to travel from the mine portal to the face of the working and back, and a new half-hour lunch period). The arithmetic was further complicated by doubling the royalty paid into the miners' health & welfare fund to 110? a ton (between...
...danger was that price rises would not stop there. A spokesman for Ben Fairless' U.S. Steel, the bellwether of all U.S. industry, argued that the higher costs could be absorbed between mine and consumer, that assured production was more important now than a slight price rise, that anything was better than another coal strike. The argument had a slightly brassy ring...
...nation-wide coal shortage was definitely averted last night when the United Mine Workers policy committee ratified a new wage contract, which will send the minors back to work after it has been officially signed today with the northern operators. The contract is "national," meaning that operators all over the country must accept it before their men will return to the mines...
...Stories. At long last, all my belongings were passed. The woman again turned to me. Her intense eyes looked straight into mine. "When you write about Russia, you will have your opinion," she said, "but write with the heart. We don't want any more war. We had enough. Remember the terrible destruction we suffered, and the pale faces of our children. Write with the heart...
...loophole looked as big as a mine shaft; refusal to work because of "abnormally dangerous" conditions was not considered a strike. On June 30, John L. Lewis might find something dangerous in every mine...