Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp...
...behalf of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, I am calling your attention to the following statement contained on page 10 of your issue of February 13, 1928, to wit:-"The day after Senator Johnson spoke in the Senate, a band of Negroes, hired by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company, swaggered down a road near Horning, Pa., and fired revolver volleys into the windows of a school filled with strikers' children. One of the strikebreakers, arrested, said he had been paid $25 by the coal company to shoot up strikers in their barracks. This was reported as a typical incident...
...only is the statement regarding the negroes shooting up the strikers in their barracks not true, but the plain inference of the language "hired by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company," coupled with the later statement in the paragraph that one of the strikebreakers had been paid $25 by the Coal Company for this purpose, is that the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation knowingly and intentionally set about to cause a breach of the peace, which is not the fact...
...state what are the facts, to wit: that two of the negro employees of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, who were returning to their homes from work, were fired upon by a party known to be a striking miner, one of the negroes being, wounded; that, upon his being taken to his home, a number of negroes in the camp, enraged thereby, started a retaliatory move against the strikers, and that, after this fracas was over, one of the negroes, at the point of a gun, was compelled to sign a so-called confession dictated to suit the purposes...
...Furthermore, when you speak of the Pennsylvania operators admitting that they broke a wage agreement signed by them in 1924, you include in that category the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, to whom you had just previously referred. . . . You will find that the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation carried out its Jacksonville agreement, employing all its miners at the Jacksonville wage scale, until the contract expired on April 1, 1927, though the keeping of this agreement entailed hundreds of thousands of dollars of loss upon that company. I am instructed by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation to say to you that, unless...