Word: miners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pending the findings and final recommendations of the Senate investigators, President Coolidge reiterated his opinion that the seat of trouble in the bituminous coal industry is too many mines and too many miners. He agreed with Senators Gooding and Wheeler, Miner John L. Lewis and many an operator, that amendment of the anti-trust laws will probably be necessary to let the operators make agreements in salutory restraint of their own trade-but not until miners and operators shall have reached production agreements among themselves...
...program includes several well known selections. Bach's "Prelude and Fugue in E miner" and an air of his "My Dearest Jesu" will be played, Part of Widor's Fourth Symphony, the "Andaute Cantabile", is also to be played. An air, "Erry Valley", from "The Messiah", by Handel, is one of the finest on the schedule...
...There is nothing prosaic about abrogating a contract," snapped Senator Wheeler. The Pittsburgh Coal Company's reasoning was that, though it agreed to pay union miners $7.50 per day, it did not agree to employ union miners any longer than it saw fit. It was employing non-union men before and after the signing of the agreement, with the unions' knowledge. When it reduced the non-union men's pay to $6 per day in 1925, and began replacing union men with non-union men it was, it claimed, "acting legally." According to Miner Lewis, this action...
Remedies. Senator Gooding and Miner Lewis seemed agreed that the legislation required was amendment of the anti-trust laws to permit the operators to consolidate. Miner Lewis also asked an Interstate Commerce Act amendment to prevent railroads from crushing operators and miners alike, by coal price depression...
American Smelting & Refining Co. (Onetime [1907-13] Senator Simon Guggenheim is president)-$15,477,770. Previous year: $17,760,721. "The showing of earnings is quite satisfactory, in view of the fact that metal prices were lower in 1927 than in 1926, and your company is now a substantial miner of lead, zinc, copper and silver," soothed President Guggenheim...