Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type of plumbing joint he had invented, 2) a Government investigator inquiring into the political complexion of the Kansas City Star, 3) a writer looking for special material for his novel, 4) a paste salesman wanting desk space and a telephone, 5) the owner of a coal mine in Alberta on the lookout for unemployed coal miners; telephone calls from all sorts of people asking specific information (e.g., "what's this new country club in town people have been asking about?"), an invitation from a local civic organization to participate in one of its projects, the usual...
Fines & Fears. Mine operators turned to a punitive clause in the Krug-Lewis agreement under which the Government was operating the mines. They began to fine miners $1-$2 a day for every day they stayed out. Fines, retroactive to Nov. 21, could be deducted from miners' pay when they finally went back. The fact that fines will be turned over to the United Mine Workers' medical and hospital fund would not soften the resentment of individual, hungry miners. Nor would it get them back to work...
Long affiliated with the labor movement, Budenz once edited "Labor Age," organ for the AFL and the mine workers' union. He was arrested and acquitted twenty different times for participation in anti-injunction activity, and modestly remarks that he was probably the "best informed man" on personalities in the left wing...
...both cases the interests of the whole must be reconciled with the interests of a small part without infringing on the rights of either. On one hand we have the world and its component nations, on the other, our nation and its mine workers...
WASHINGTON, December 4--John L. Lewis was fined $10,000 and his United Mine Workers $3,500,000 today after a rearing courtroom scene in which Lowis challenged the judge to fine him anything he pleased...