Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organized labor marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers before March 4. They claimed 300,000 members but of these probably less than half paid dues...
...John L. Lewis is today the most intellectual and well-read leader in the whole labor field. He was not born to such graces 53 years ago in Lucas, Iowa. His father was a Welsh miner whose pioneer union activities forced the family to move to Illinois. At the age of 12 Son John, big of body, loud of lungs, went into the mines as a mule-driver. Later he mined silver in New Mexico, copper in Arizona, gold in Colorado. Smarter than most, he got a job as U. M. W. lobbyist at Springfield, 111. He still lives there...
Many a coal miner considers President Lewis a racketeer. That is because he is as ruthless as any political boss in running his organization. Dissenters are put down with fist and foot. Every U. M. W. election brings its charge that ballot boxes have been stuffed with Lewis votes from locals which exist only on paper...
...important to everyone, its recovery is work for willing hands always. It is much more sensible to set a ruined rag merchant to planning gold than to put a sapling in his hands with orders to plant it. And though earnings may be low for the place miner, he is doing something which does not seem to him unmitigated drudgery, and which keeps him alive in the hope of a rich strike. The plan considers and allows for the human element...
...toward unemployment relief in that it increased by fifty percent the earnings of the small prospector and panner, who has hitherto been obliged to sell at twenty dollars announce while in Canada and other countries gold was bringing a premium as high as eighty-five percent. The small gold miner, however, is still harassed by the old law forcing him to divulge the source of his dust; this law, originally designed to allow the government to plan detective for large mining companies, now serves to lay the prospector open to the mercies of the sharpers, government snoopers, gold buyers...