Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Alexander O'Grady, 59, San Francisco attorney and politician; of a heart attack; in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Calif. Son of an engineer employed by owners of the famed "Big Bonanza" mine, he was an intimate boyhood friend of Clarence Hungerford Mackay. The late Mrs. John William Mackay, widow of the Comstock Lode tycoon, was his godmother...
...economic murk enveloping the bituminous coal industry last week emerged the outline of a startling relief proposal at which most big mine operators, harassed by low prices and labor troubles, clutched hopefully. This was it: let the Federal Government declare soft coal mining a public utility and regulate it accordingly. Sponsor for the proposal was no less a figure than John D. A. Morrow, president of the $165.000,000 Pittsburgh Coal Co., second largest bituminous producer...
...Scranton last week met the biennial convention of District 1, United Mine Workers of America. It was more a dogfight than a convention. Shouts and fists broke up the first meeting. A gas bomb thrown by the police to restore order brought tears and temporary blindness to the chief speaker at the second meeting, U. S. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis. The issue between conservative and insurgent United Miners: whether to strike generally or just locally. The conservatives won. Victory was hollow, however, for 15,000 Pittston miners involved then decided not to strike...
...From Washington came announcement that a conference would be called to bring together miners and operators. President John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers had suggested such a meeting to President Hoover in a message saying that the plight of miners was "below animal standards." Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lamont emerged from a meeting with the President, announced that some 125 invitations had been sent to bituminous operators asking if they would attend a discussion with workers in the near future. Three weeks prior Secretary Lamont had summoned a dozen of the big bituminous operators to a conference...
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, with which the United Mine Workers are affiliated, has suggested revision of the anti-trust laws, recognition of the right of collective bargaining to cure the bituminous disease. President Lewis of U. M. W. hopes for controlled production of coal with government...