Word: soft-coal
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...year, a two-week vacation with pay. With the 35-hr, week preserved, basic pay was raised 50? per day-to $6 in the North, $5.60 in the South-with increases of 55?to $1 per day for machine and piece work employes. Also for the first time, soft-coal miners were promised time-&-a-half pay for overtime...
Turning aside from his organization drives for the moment, the Sit-Down's boldest tactician, C. I. O. Boss Lewis, resumed his role as president of United Mine Workers, settled down in Manhattan for a long haggle with soft-coal operators over a new two-year wage & hour contract to replace the one expiring March 31. Coal trouble still threatened. Automobile trouble was only quiescent.* Steel trouble was almost certain, and last week in Texas it was reported that April 5 the C. I. O. would launch a great drive to organize Oil. In all of those impending struggles...
...nation's 400,000 soft-coal miners who quit work last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 30) their strike turned out to be nothing but a good, profitable rest. While they loafed and slept, representatives of operators and miners who had been haggling in Washington since mid-February came to terms in four days. Contracts were signed to begin this week, run until April 1, 1937. Day-rate workers, including two-thirds of all miners, got their basic pay upped from $5 to $5.50 per day. Adding on similar increases for piece-workers, operators figured their labor bill had been raised...
When President John Llewellyn Lewis of the United Mine Workers was younger he fought many a bitter battle with the operators. At the end of the great strike of 1922 he won a great victory over the soft-coal mineowners, only to find later that, like the victorious Allies of 1918, he had lost more than he had won. For the scale of wages he imposed after the strike ruined that portion of the coal industry that was subject to them and the ruin of the industry ruined the union almost beyond repair...
...pockets bulging with papers like those of a country lawyer, General Johnson left the White House as soon as the President had issued his statement. Unofficially he had been talking to industrialists for weeks about the Recovery Act. That evening he was scheduled to speak to harassed soft-coal men in Chicago. When his airplane was grounded by fog at Pittsburgh. General Johnson addressed his audience by radio. He strongly urged his distant hosts to "put into effect provisions which you find necessary to protect the willing and the forward-looking among your members from the racketeers and price-cutters...