Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said President John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers: "This contract is entirely satisfactory...
...until they found out if the Guffey Bill was constitutional. No less imperturbable, the miners and their estimated 1.000,000 dependants figured that they would not lose much 'by going on the relief rolls for a while. ("Certainly our people expect relief," said President John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers.) In this atmosphere the strike had been called when neither side would budge over a wage concession which would have lifted the whole industry's pay roll less than $17,000 a day. But after lengthy haggling during the strike's first day, operators and miners' representatives were nearer...
...more accomplished and pro fessional of the two books, The Stars Look Down revolves around the career of David Fenwick, whose father and brother died in a flood in Richard Barras' mine. Serious, stubborn, long-faced, intelligent, David won a scholarship, was the first of his family to escape Sleescale, where deep and ancient mines reached out under the sea. His father, who knew that the cutting was dangerous, had led an unsuccessful strike in an effort to compel the adoption of precautionary measures. The most remarkable incident in The Stars Look Down, and a powerful piece of writing...
...Cronin also traces the consequences of the disaster in the lives of Richard Barras, the mine owner, and his son, pictures them living in a class that is in a state of violent flux with its Wartime fortunes and post-War bankruptcies. Discovering that his father had willfully sacrificed the men, young Barras spent a fortune, eventually lost the mine, trying to make it safe and yet pay high wages...
Long years after, the union was recognized in Horse Shoe Bottoms, The Staffords went back, but John was too ill with tuberculosis to work in the mine he loved. When Ellen saw the huge crowds that tramped miles to his funeral, she suddenly realized that her plain, impractical husband had been a great man, reflected with anguish, pride and bewilderment that husbands ought to explain things to their wives...