Word: pithead
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...second day as French Premier, Felix Gaillard continues to face some disturbing problems. France has been without a government for thirty-six days, during which time pithead coal prices have risen 6.5 per cent, the import tax has risen 20 per cent, and the franc's value has fallen 20 per cent. To combat the falling franc and the rising Algerian, fresh and dynamic leadership is needed. If the following proposals to M. Gaillard are not dynamic, they are, at least, original...
...simple story is told without heroics or false sentiment. It is mostly a movie of waiting and of silences at the pithead and in the pit as the rescuers work their way toward the trapped men. "There's nothing to do but wait," says one miner's wife stoically. Except for an occasional Scottish song, the picture has no musical score-only the constant sounds of ticking clocks, dripping water and heavy breathing...
...miners is forced to leave his family in some other part of Germany, while he lives in a barn or an old air-raid shelter near the pits. At the Zollverein mine, near Essen, 1,500 homeless miners live in bleak, clapboard cabins sprawling in the shadow of the pithead. The turnover among them is immense. "They don't budge in winter," said a mine official. "But when the spring comes round, you see a look in their eye, and one day they're gone...
...hours shivering miners' wives, their scarves tightly knotted beneath blue pinched faces, stood round the pithead in stunned misery, while Salvation Army officers served tea and prayed, and squeaking shaft wheels lowered rescue teams into the smoke-choked mine. Meanwhile, grim-faced union and government officials sat in conference. At midday they issued a statement...
...went down into the pit. Carrying his "snaps" (miner's lunch), he rode to the pithead with his mates in the special streetcars reserved for the miners -so that they would not dirty other passengers. He found that miners lived in a segregated world of their own. He began to carry a big chip on his shoulder. Once a supervisor asked him why he did not take off his jacket while he worked. "There's nothing in the Mine Act that says I have to," snapped Bevan...