Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like your guts-you probably won't like mine...
These things are no secrets in Pennsylvania: 1) that John L. Lewis wants his friend and fellow Mine Worker, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Kennedy, elected Governor this year; 2) that Pennsylvania's Democratic boss, Senator Joseph F. Guffey does not want him at the head of the ticket because Mr. Kennedy is a better labor man than Democrat; 3) that Pennsylvania's present Governor, George Howard Earle, can hardly afford to alienate either Joseph Guffey or the strongest labor leader in U. S. history if he expects to be elected Senator this year and President in 1940. Last week...
...Where You Find It takes time out from battle to attend a gilt-edged house party where the whiskery guests of honor are General U. S. Grant (Walter Rogers) and U. S. Senator George Hearst (Moroni Olsen). The Senator confides: "I'm worried about this boy of mine. Willie. . . . He wants to go into the newspaper business." With sympathetic nods the host agrees that there is no money in the newspaper business...
...union which has been the financial backbone of the C. I. O. is the (1 United Textile Workers, 2 United Woodworkers, 3 Brotherhood of Railway Conductors, 4 United Mine Workers, 5 Amalgamated Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers...
Real as it was to old Mr. Green, the A.F. of L.'s action seemed strangely unreal. The Mine Workers had already read themselves out, as even the ouster resolution noted. Nor was it explained why of all C.I.O. unions the ax had fallen on the Flat Glass Workers and the Smelters, both relatively unimportant. Logical union to go and the one expected to go was Sidney Hillman's big Amalgamated Clothing Workers. But whatever the strategy may have been one thing was sure: it was not in the interests of labor peace...