Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, John could not keep up his present pace much longer. For another, he liked to keep his United Mine Workers well in the van of other unions-and himself in the spotlight. Quite obviously, he also wanted to get his latest demands down and the issue settled before the new Congress meets in January and revises labor legislation...
...bowels of the earth. . . . You cavalierly now propose a 60-day freeze. . . . Your proposal ... is sheer folly and empty platitude. . . . You now, at the last hour of the last day yield to the blandishments and soothing siren voice of the operators and seek to place the United Mine Workers of America between Scylla and Charybdis. This course, we refuse to follow...
Motion. Then, this week, came electrifying news. For the first time in five years the Government was preparing to take a stand against John Lewis. Cap Krug made the first moves. He announced that the mines would stay open, plastered the mine shafts with placards asking the men to stay at work...
WASHINGTON, November 21--A Federal judge started contempt of court action against John L. Lewis late today but the United Mine Workers chief, in deep seclusion, still made no move to call of the strike of 400,000 soft coal miners...
...report of strike violence came at the end of the day from Welch, W. Vs. L. J. Brindley, Prosecutor's Investigator, said two union officials were shot as they tried to induce the operator of a small mine to close it. Officials have said that troops will be sent into the coal fields if necessary to maintain order...