Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's other important strike involved recognition of United Mine Workers by the "captive" soft coal mines of Pennsylvania. These mines are owned and their entire output is used by the great non-union iron and steel companies. Last fortnight U. M. W. won complete recognition from most commercial mine operators in a blanket wage contract under the coal code. Because that contract did not include the "captive" mines of U. S. Steel Corp., Bethlehem Steel and others, some 75,000 Pennsylvania diggers under Insurgent Martin Ryan refused to work in any sort of mine...
...Washington's new Shoreham Hotel was signed one night last week the biggest, most significant work-&-wage contract in the history of U. S. labor. At one end of the table, his beefy bulk overflowing the chair, sat John Llewellyn Lewis, black-maned, bushy-browed president of United Mine Workers of America. At the other end was the thin, rigid figure of John De Lorma Adams Morrow, president of Pittsburgh Coal Co., who also heads the potent Northern Coal Control Association. Loudly and often had Operator Morrow sworn that he would never sign another agreement with United Mine Workers...
...Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers before March 4. They claimed 300,000 members but of these probably less than half paid dues. From field after field Leader Lewis' organizers had been kicked and cuffed out. A barricade of court injunctions thwarted attempts to advance unionization. Less than 25% of the country's soft...
...Largest: The monstrous Cullinan, found in South Africa's Premier mine in 1907 by a worker who got $10,000 bonus. It was split up for King George's crown and sceptre...
Jesus is a Pal of mine...