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...coal industry can find a place in his United Mine Workers. For a greater labor movement and a more united front, John Lewis wants to see 40,000,000 U. S. workers organized in industrial unions like his and amalgamated into something like the American Federation of Labor. MINER LEWIS, HIS HOUSE & OFFICE-He takes his unionism vertically. Less than 15% of the workers in U. S. industry now belong to the A. F. of L., whose total membership is short of 3,500,000. Fundamentally it is an association of craft unions dominated by skilled workers. These fear that...
...Some delegates were also of a mind to chuck A. F. of L.'s President William Green, who got his cheek slit in a coal mine, out of the small office he holds in the U. M. W. It therefore took considerable courage for Miner Green to march into the convention and plead that "experience has taught us that both plans [of union organization] can be included" in the Federation. But William Green's words fell on hostile ears. At one point he was booed so relentlessly that John Lewis had to heave himself up and wave...
...blasting in mines. Last year a Baltimore woman, opening the door of a furnace, was struck in the breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass sheet. Pellets from detonators, directed into jars of water, shatter...
Shortly after this fracas, Dave Wilder, substitute goal made his only stop of the second period. It was a wicked close up by Miner, but Wilder cleared beautifully
HARVARD '39 NEWTON HIGH Stone, 1.w. r.w., Macleod Harding, c. c., Daniels Scalfe, r.w. 1.w., Miner Houghton, 1.d. r.d., Whitehead Foaron, 1.d. 1.d., Milner Irving, g. g., Buttrick...