Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of the Interior Krug was the final witness. He testified that the new demands Lewis has made would raise the cost of coal 5 cents a ten at the mine. Asked by the judge how that would affect the price to consumers, Krug replied that it probably would cause an even greater increase to them...
...came quickly after Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough announced he will present evidence himself tomorrow which may determine the guilt or innocence of Lewis and the United Mine Workers...
...Mine Coal With Bayonets? Also swinging a cane, wearing a Florida tan, President Truman stepped out of his plane and went to the White House to confer with his advisers. Harry Truman, who had made the decisions which had precipitated the battle and had directed it step by step, faced the most suspenseful week of his year and a half in office. Men close to him said that he was determined not to give...
...well aware of the hazards. If John Lewis went to jail, all organized labor might strike in sympathy. Said A.F.L. President William Green, a usually mild man: "The workers of the nation resent this action on the part of the Government. . . . All American labor unites with the mine workers in condemning this reversion to the archaic philosophy of government by injunction." A general strike was a possibility also if the injunction was retained. In either event, the mines would stay closed...
After these pleasures, they walked out into the brooding night fog. Quietly, the mine people turned up their collars and started for home-past the fuzzy street lamps, past Harchar's saloon, past the tinseled toy window at Duval's hardware store. In two hours the strike became official...