Word: servaczgo
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...issue of TIME arrived in yesterday's mail, and the main topic of conversation last night was the coal strike in Pennsylvania. We decided that we would like the following message conveyed to Oscar Servaczgo, striking Wilkes-Barre anthracite coal miner...
Thick-chested Oscar Servaczgo, striking Wilkes-Barre anthracite coal miner, sat in his kitchen talking to Philadelphia Record Reporter Johnston D. Kerkhoft. Suddenly a telephone call brought him stunning news. One of his two Navy sons had been killed in the Pacific. Servaczgo burst out: "I ain't a traitor, damn 'em, I ain't a traitor. I'll stay out until hell freezes over...
...people of the U.S. shivered and wondered. Some of them were indeed using the word traitor on the likes of Oscar Servaczgo. In all the Eastern Seaboard there was not enough fuel to keep homes warm, fire factory furnaces, prosecute the war. In East-Central Pennsylvania's anthracite basin extending from Carbondale to Pottsville there was good hard coal aplenty-underground-but some 17,000 striking miners refused to dig it. Other thousands threatened to walk out. The press roared its disapproval or belatedly questioned...
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