Word: railroadmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Railroadmen prohibited from working more than eight hours a day, except in emergencies; strikes and lockouts illegal, except after 90-day notice; the President empowered to take control of railways in national emergencies...
About 200,000 union miners left their jobs, most of them with money in the bank, some prepared to raise chickens and vegetables, others ready to work in factories. Manufacturers and railroadmen, who are the largest consumers of bituminous coal, refused to be alarmed. Ninety million tons are above ground, in storage, in freight cars-and, then too, the non-union mines in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee produce 65% of the nation's soft coal needs...