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During the years that Drew Pearson's syndicated column "Washington Merry-Go-Round ran in the Fairbanks, Alaska, News-Miner, Pearson's most constant detractor was C.W. (for Charles Willis) Snedden-who happens to be the News-Miner's Publisher. It seemed to Snedden that the columnist never got anything right about Alaska, not even the cost of a gallon of gas in Fairbanks, which Pearson quoted at $1 (actual price at the time: 51? to 54?). Finally Snedden could stand no more. "The garbage man of the fourth estate " his paper sneered in an editorial...
...raise dues. For the first time since he founded the International Union of Electrical Workers in 1949, moody, mercurial James Carey is being strongly challenged for the presidency. The United Mine Workers' $50,000-a-year president, Tony Boyle, is being challenged by a $130-a-week miner...
...fateful presence of Mrs. Tabor T.B., a birth is occurring in his home rather than the death he suspects. Along the way he flashes a prose that is occasionally quite memorable, as when he explains why any boy in the valley would want to grow up to be a miner: "There was, you understand, the ambition for the walk of the miners in corduroy trousers, with yorks under the knees to stop the loose coal running down into your boots and the rats from running up inside your trousers, and the lamp in the cap on the head...
...fighting arm of the immigrant Irish miners was known as the Molly Maguires, after a legendary heroine of Irish insurrections against the British during Ireland's great famine. In the U.S., the Mollies concealed themselves within the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a legitimate benevolent association of Irish-Americans. They were led by Jack Kehoe, a tall, tough ex-miner turned saloonkeeper; each branch of the society was headed by a "body-master," who could produce a dozen gunmen when needed...
...price of Windfall stock as low as 80? before it closed at $1.04. Last week, as the price settled at a limp 78?, both the Ontario Securities Commission and the provincial government began investigations of Windfall's dealings. A BLACK DAY FOR CANADIAN MINING, headlined the respected Northern Miner...