Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor, got one morning last week as a car whizzed him down Uniontown, Pa.'s Main Street to Fraternal Hall between noisy ranks of striking coal miners. He had just flown in from Washington as President Roosevelt's personal emissary in an attempt to persuade balky United Mine Workers to live up to the strike truce their national leaders had signed (TIME, Aug. 14). At Fraternal Hall Mr. McGrady, his mouth set in a straight hard line, shouldered his way inside to face 128 local union leaders. Doors slammed. Locks clicked. Outside thousands of strikers waited and listened...
...while he did his NRA job. Almost overnight the Pennsylvania coal strike had flared up from a local ruckus in Fayette County to a national menace. Trouble started with H. C. Frick Coke Co., a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp. A few thousand Frick workers joined the United Mine Workers of America and struck in protest against the formation of company unions. The issue was whether the non-union Frick company would recognize the national union. It would not - on orders from the non-union U. S. Steel Corp. The strike spread so rapidly that many a miner...
...rivals. Profits were plowed back into the business-$70,000,000 of them had gone back in by 1917. The market value of its stock, largely Mellon owned, was $150,000,000. Just at the beginning of the War Mellon also bought Kopper Co. which turned into a gold mine with the war demand for coal tar products for explosives. Millions added to millions-the best part of the $2,000,000,000 fortune of the Mellons had already been assembled. In 1921 Pennsylvania's politicians pressed Mr. Harding to name "America's second richest man" Secretary...
...steel industry's backdown on "company unions" at NRA hearings in Washington did not diminish U. S. Steel's resistance to unionization in the coal fields. As a matter of "common sense" Governor Pinchot attempted to mediate the Fayette County trouble by summoning United Mine Workers and Frick Coke officials to a peace conference-a meeting which would put the non-union company into direct negotiation with its union...
...Rockefeller Jr. took Arthur Brisbane's advice: he borrowed Pennsylvania's Ivy Lee. Since young Ivy Lee was new to a new game, his success was not signal. He made the grave error of accepting and circulating as true all facts & figures given him by the mine operators. Later he was revealed by a U. S. commission as having drafted a strike memorandum for the Governor of Colorado to send, as his own, to President Wilson. However his testimony before the Commission headed by the late great Senator Walsh was front-page news and the best advertisement...