Word: miners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refugee: "Miners in the Ostrava pits went on strike for five days; the soldiers refused to fire on them. Convinced Communists tore party emblems from their lapels, spat on them. Plant militia killed three miners. One militiawoman who shot a miner was beaten to death...
...accomplice held up a small Manhattan hotel, but were caught by the cops before they even had a chance to spend their $7 haul. After four years in Sing Sing, Pytsch was paroled, went to California to begin again. While he was working there as a coal miner, he seduced a 13-year-old girl. The girl told her father, and Pytsch was tried and found guilty of statutory rape. The judge gave him a two-to 100-year sentence, and the next day he escaped from jail...
...stumped out to the car that would take his household to the polls at Nigel, a dusty gold-mining town 25 miles southeast of Johannesburg; as he reached the car there was a roar, and his house blew to smithereens. Grandma Elizabeth Stoltz and a 32-year-old gold miner named Lukas van der Merwe lay dead in the wreckage; the Stoltzes' son Pieter had a leg blown...
Died. Allan Shaw Haywood, 64, who rose from pitboy at 13 to be executive vice president and chief organizer of the C.I.O.; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Hardworking, hard-drinking Allan Haywood, born a miner's son in Yorkshire. England, came to the U.S. in 1906. He followed John L. Lewis and Philip Murray up labor's ladder, recruited unions for the C.I.O., stuck with Murray when Lewis made his trumpeting breakaway in 1942. As right-hand man to ailing President Murray, Haywood seemed heir apparent, but after Murray's death last November...
...Washington reporter was interested in how John L. Lewis celebrated his 73rd birthday, but Old Miner Lewis was not interested in talking. He took the morning off (a fairly unusual occurrence), showed up in the office during the afternoon to clean up his desk, and at day's end clapped on his hat and departed, keeping his own counsel...