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...Well," said grizzled old Bozo Damich, the U.M.W.'s International Representative, "there's a saying which goes that the miner will spend $10 a day if he has it, or he can live 100 days on $10 if he has to. If things get hard our men will be buying a barrel of mush and living on it three meals...
...boys themselves were mighty uneasy. Would they fink on Old John? Miner Joe Grizo laughed at that one. "This may be a hell of a time to strike," he said. "But the union's gotta have a contract, and what's the use of having a union if we don't stick together? John's the leader. . . . He ain't ever been wrong...
...head of this segment of the stricken coal industry, Edward R. Burke, told a reporter that "a very considerable number of coal companies" had filed applications with the government to slap individual fines of $1 and $2 a day for every day that a miner stays out. The amount would vary under the contract by regions...
Untrippable Trippi. Last week Georgia crunched helpless Auburn 41 to 0, had only Chattanooga and Georgia Tech left. The man who does most to make Georgia go is Charlie Trippi, son of a Pennsylvania coal miner. He has gained over a thousand yards in Georgia's eight games this fall. Tied with the other Bulldog halfback, John Donaldson, as the team's leading scorer, Trippi blocks, kicks and tackles as well as he runs and passes. He runs with legs far apart in a sort of gallop, sometimes jumps in the air just before being grabbed, and flails...
...requires a clear, dry, rarefied atmosphere. Weather at the station is very severe with snow from October to June; and snow storms, fierce winds and freezing temperatures can be expected almost any day of the year. The summer is so short that there is a local joke about the miner who missed the entire summer by working "both days...