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...pressed the charge of civil contempt.* Lewis could be jailed or fined on the civil charge at the discretion of the court. Morison noted that 85% of the miners had gone back. His recommendation: the civil penalty should be postponed. This meant that Lewis would still be on the hook. The court could haul him in and fine him at the drop of a miner's pick. Judge Goldsborough thought the suggestion "eminently proper" and adjourned the case...
...meet this crisis the West must know and measure this shrewd exploitation of Europe's fears. It can never assume that the Ruhr miner or the Normandy peasant, for all his rude wisdom, will shrug off a Moscow overture as just an empty political move. He will never surrender his worn hope for peace simply because political sophisticates of the Western capitals say that Moscow is just up to its old tricks. The sophisticates will have to expose the tricks. If that is done with clarity and integrity, the West need have no fear. Precisely because the miner...
Both Joy and Pittsburgh Consolidation tried to keep all details top secret, but some leaked out. The "Joy Continuous Miner," as it is called, is under 25 feet long, weighs less than 20 tons and moves on caterpillar treads. It has powerful cutting arms which first dig into the face of a seam at floor level, then cut their way up to the roof. As it is cut and broken, a conveyer system carries the coal back over the machine directly into cars, in which it is hauled to the surface...
...uninterrupted succession, the mechanical miner thus performs three separate operations-cutting, breaking and loading-which currently require separate crews and machines in even the most highly mechanized mines. More important, it entirely eliminates blasting and all its dangers. Requiring only two operators, with additional crews for handling the cars, etc., the machine may easily displace as much as 50% of all mining personnel...
...Continuous Miner will not solve the labor problem in coal mines. John L. Lewis once said that he would rather have 100,000 union members secure in their jobs than 400,000 who were insecure. But mine operators were anxious to see the machine. One of them has ordered 30, sight unseen. Joy hopes to have commercial models ready by year...