Word: soft-coal
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...establish effective control of farm prices. Progressive holes were punched in credit controls. There was never effective control of wages, a situation sharply illustrated when the Administration leaped through hoops to give the steelworkers exactly what they wanted last spring. Another illustration: the new increase to the 375,000 soft-coal miners, making their base pay $18.25 a day, gives them increases totaling $3.50 a day in less than two years under "stabilization...
Last week, seven hours before 200,000 miners in Northern soft-coal mines were to go on strike, the United Mine Workers' astute old John L. Lewis won agreement on a contract from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association giving his miners 1) a $1.90 wage increase on their basic daily wage rate (now $16.35), 2) a 10?-a-ton boost in producers' royalty payments (now 30? a ton) to the union's welfare treasury. Lewis will probably demand and receive similar concessions from the rest of the soft-coal industry, whose contracts expire...
With none of the usual gaseous explosions, gothic orations or protracted strikes, the soft-coal operators and John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers last week signed a new 14-month contract. The miners got a 20?-an-hour pay boost, and the operators got ready to raise coal prices as much as 25? a ton at the pits...
During the Depression, Friend Pickett put the Service Committee to work on the industrial front, getting relief to the families of textile workers in a bitter North Carolina strike, feeding more than 40,000 children of destitute soft-coal miners. Even now, with 33 teams at work in Europe and the Orient, the Service Committee has earmarked $950,000 to be spent this year in the prosperous...
...third time in its history, his United Mine Workers had been brought to trial for contempt of court. A conviction could have forced his union to pay a daily fine until it purged itself of the charge by getting its 370,000-odd soft-coal miners back to work. Such an order might have bankrupted the U.M.W.'s $15 million treasury; at least it could have brought John Lewis to his knees...