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Weighmen. But mining had scarcely been resumed in Fayette County before new truce troubles bobbed up to plague the industry. A prime item in the armistice allowed miners to select and pay their own weighmen to check the company's weighmen at the tipple scales. United Mine Wrorkers promptly proceeded to elect their own members as check weighmen. These the mine superintendents of the non-union Frick and Pittsburgh companies refused to recognize, on the ground that their non-union employes were unrepresented. Thus a new deadlock was created and NRA's special coal arbitration board headed...
Fifty thousand soft coal miners were on strike in Pennsylvania, the Federal Government's whole recovery program was on the verge of being engulfed in a tidal wave of labor disputes, one evening last week as National Recovery Administrator Johnson climbed into a trimotored Army plane in Washington and flew off for a midnight meeting with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park. When General Johnson woke up next morning in Poughkeepsie's Nelson Hotel the coal strike had been called off for the time being. The recovery program was again moving forward on an even keel. By his night...
...palms often are due to infected teeth, tonsils, ulcer or other disease of the digestive tract, observed Dr. George Clinton Andrews Jr. & associates of Manhattan. A normal adult has very nearly 1/20 of an ounce of sand in his lungs. Dr. William Duncan McNatty of Chicago calculated. A coal miner's lungs contain about 1/6 oz., a zinc miner's 2/5 oz., a stone cutter's 3/5 oz., a granite cutter's 1 1/10 oz. Dr. William James Gardner of Cleveland described the fate of a young woman who had one-half of her brain...
...winnings. Said he: ''The only publicity I would object to would be outright advertisement of the lotteries. The law says we can't have that. The papers can go ahead, though, and print all the news there is about the poor chambermaid or the unemployed coal miner who bought a ticket for a shilling or two and won $1,000,000 in cash money. I think that is a great story always and if it is going to impair our morals to know what goes on in the world that is a problem for our pastors...
...yard dash--F. J. Lane '36 and N. P. Dodge '33; 440-yard dash--Warner (Y) and J. M. Morse '34; 880-yard run--J. B. White '34, Sutherland (Y) or J. M. Morse '34; Mile run--Turley (Y) and A. B. Hallowell '34; two-mile run--Miner (Y), Arthur Foote '33 or R. S. Playfair '36; 120-yard high hurdles--Lockwood (Y) and J. C. Grady '33; 220-yard low hurdles--J. C. Grady '33; and Dunbar (Y); shotput--J. J. Dean '34 and Jackson (Y); discus throw--J. J. Dean '34 and Crowley (Y); pole vault--Brown...