Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stolid unionists' battle on this basic issue lasted six days, a good part behind closed doors in the resolutions committee room. Lined up for the industrial union were hulking, square-faced John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers and tall, persuasive Charles P. Howard of the International Typographical Union. Opponents of committing A. F. of L. to vertically were President William Green, a quiet-spoken reactionary, and Matthew Woll, an overdressed, Red-hating A. F. of L. vice president...
...thousand feet under the Mecsek hills near Pecs, 1,200 miners picked wearily last week at the poor coal that is Hungary's best. On the railroad sidings above were 15,000 unsold carloads of their low-grade handiwork. The mine owner, Danube Steam Navigation Co., largely British-owned, had done its best to spread work, a few hours a day per man. But that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies...
Suing for Divorce. Diana Churchill Bailey, daughter of Britain's Rt. Hon Winston Churchill; from John Milner Bailey, son of Sir Abe Bailey, Transvaal gold mine owner; in London...
...author and criminologist, left Vassar in 1908, took her M. A. at Columbia along with Frances Perkins. Like Miss Perkins, she went in for social service work. After her father died in 1927, Miss Roche was left with a large share of Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., second biggest coal mine in Colorado. She bought complete control, was the first operator in the State to unionize. When non-union owners tried to break her by underselling, Colorado unionists put on a voluntary promotion campaign, took a temporary wage cut. Miss Roche's company now sells Denver most of its lignite...
...respond quickly to singles and to dodge objects in reaching a goal if not to build a football team? Quake property, the eastern coaches rear to meet the Yale chimpanzees on the gridiron. Their boys would have no chance at all against a team who see players could leap mine fact in the air on a line "buck or Jerk down a runner with a single hairy paw. Chicago Daily Tribune...