Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Party leaders. And this apparent paradox is easily explained: for years it has been the face-saving excuse of Labour officials that though they had power, they had no majority, and therefore no chance of effecting the socialist legislation to which they were pledged. To the average coal-miner this seemed reasonable enough. But what will happen if the Party obtains a straight majority at the next General Election...
...United Miner Murray concluded his appeal even more strongly: "Today you are fighting the coal companies, but tomorrow, if you remain on strike, you will be fighting the Government of the United Slates. Today you are conducting a strike. But tomorrow you would be conducting a rebellion...
...Leroy M. S. Miner, dean of the Dental School will speak at the Massachusetts General Hospital at 4 o'clock today in celebration of Ether...
...Many a miner considers President Lewis a strikebreaker. That is because he called off the 1919 coal strike in the face of a Federal injunction with the statement that "We can't fight the Government." He was also accused of strikebreaking when in 1927 after the lapse of the Jacksonville agreement he permitted temporary wage contracts to be negotiated in Illinois and Indiana...
...Many a miner considers President Lewis a hireling of the operators. That is because he sanctioned the signing of a Kentucky wage agreement on the eve of the 1922 strike. Frank Farrington, U. M. W. leader in Illinois, accused him of receiving $100,000 from Kentucky operators for letting them run while northern mines were closed. Later President Lewis showed that Leader Farrington was down for $25,000 per year on the payroll of Peabody Coal...