Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bullets for Speed. Commissar Ordzhonikidze saw to it that Comrade Stakhanov received a motor car and other luxuries unheard of for a Russian miner. After diligent search in other Soviet mines and factories, fresh Heroes of Labor were produced whose feats of "Stakhanovism" as played up by the Soviet Press became more & more stupendous...
FIRST of the United States Steel "new blood Benjamin F. Fairless, 45, has been elected to presidency of the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporate "New blood," but even more significant, Fairless of born the son of an Ohio of miner, and lived early in Shadows of sooty shafts of human despair...
John Lewis had reached a critical phase in his career as one of the nation's most puissant labor leaders. To Miner Lewis, an advocate of industrial unionism who considers himself a progressive, the Federation's president and 12 of its 15 vice presidents are rank reactionaries, dedicated to craft unionism. When he got on the Executive Council through its enlargement in 1934, John Lewis thought he might make A. F. of L. reflect his way of thinking. He and one or two other "progressives" found themselves monotonously snowed under by Green & Co. Last week's resignation...
...subsequent press conference. Miner Lewis declared: "The American Federation of Labor is not organizing the workers in the great fundamental industries and it is not going to organize them except on the basis of crafts. This is not going to suffice in those industries where the line between the craft and the unskilled workers is not discernible." Miner Lewis claimed to have lined up not only his own huge industrial union but the International Typographical Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Ladies' Garment Workers, Mine, Mill & Smelter Union, milliners, rubber and brewery workers. However, he was at pains to disclaim...
With hundreds of thousands of onetime coal miners on the dole and misery stalking the "depressed areas," coal mine owners claim they cannot raise wages because their combined operating profit for the whole United Kingdom last year was only ?4,000,000. The miners demand a combined wage increase of ?16,500,000 and their nation-wide vote last week authorized miner leaders to order a coal strike unless this demand...