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...teachers being trained at a time when the falling birth rate is starting to reduce the elementary-school population. And in their anxiety to find work, more and more men are taking some of the available teaching openings, as well as be coming bank tellers, social workers and telephone operators???all jobs traditionally held by women...
...second about November 1; the third about December 1. Averaging these three dates, would put the result about where the operators want it. The theory of miners' tactics is to wait until accumulated coal is sold or until public officials intervene (the latter being a consummation devoutly undesired by operators??? or, at least, so the miners think.) Then the miners hope to wring concessions from the operators...
...evening of Aug. 31 anthracite mining adjourned sine die. The adjournment was complete. About 155,000 miners left the mines?not technically "striking," but " suspending operations "because a new wage contract had not been executed. In the hurried days immediately before, the function of peacemaker between miners and operators???given up as hopeless by the Coal Commision?descended upon Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania. He had desired it so. But he did not succeed in preventing the strike...
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