Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carl E. Lesher, militant vice president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., took the stand to answer questions fired by a mine union attorney. This colloquy dwelt chiefly on strikebreaking conditions at the mines, lurid with references to Pinkerton detectives, lewd Negroes' criminal assaults on mine women. Mr. Lesher passed on to his chief, President John D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., responsibility for the company's newspaper advertisements of last fortnight, which asserted that the investigating Senators were "prejudiced." Mr. Lesher said: "Perhaps we are unfortunate in that our material is prosaic and that...
...There is nothing prosaic about abrogating a contract," snapped Senator Wheeler. The Pittsburgh Coal Company's reasoning was that, though it agreed to pay union miners $7.50 per day, it did not agree to employ union miners any longer than it saw fit. It was employing non-union men before and after the signing of the agreement, with the unions' knowledge. When it reduced the non-union men's pay to $6 per day in 1925, and began replacing union men with non-union men it was, it claimed, "acting legally." According to Miner Lewis, this action...
...Bituminous Coal Corpn., Rembrandt Peale, of the Peale, Peacock & Kerr, and J. W. Searles, of the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co., all testified that they had considered the Jacksonville agreement, bitter bone of the whole contention, to be morally as well as legally binding. President Horace F. Baker, of the Pittsburgh Terminal Co., has already testified the same (despite contradiction by his competitor, President Morrow), having established that his company kept the agreement, was not again called to the stand...
Judgment. The Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s charge that the investigating Senators were "prejudiced" was not unnatural. Between the senators' attitudes toward miners and operators, there was a marked difference betraying sympathy for the underdogs, suspicion for the upperdogs, and shock at the general horridness of what they saw in the coal fields. Inevitably mixed with these emotions was senatorial self-importance and a consciousness that politically the investigation was a cynosure. Senator Gooding, who, as junior senator from Idaho, is thoroughly eclipsed most of the time by his ursine colleague, Senator Borah, was moved to speak forth like...
...Sewickley, Pa., last week, to a 69-year-old millionaire who had risen from a small stained glass maker to be the largest plate-glass manufacturer in the world. He was on boards of great banks, Mellon National, Federal Reserve, was director of a Bell Telephone Co., trustee for Pittsburgh's Associated Charities, president of national trade associations. Yet all his life he was a sailor-man at heart, romantic, adventurous. Captain Charles William Brown, son of Jacob B., typical New England Ship Master, went to sea out of his native Newburyport, Mass., at 17. For 12 years...