Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bituminous coal producing territory, desperate attempts are being made by large financial interests "to repudiate the wage contract in the soft coal fields. Certain railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, have preferred to buy coal from distant non-Union fields rather than buy from Union mines in their own territory. Several soft coal producing companies have repudiated the wage agreement, including 1) the Consolidated Company in which John Davison Rockefeller Jr., "an estimable man with fine traits, religious and God-fearing," is a large stockholder, 2) the Pittsburgh Coal Co., "one of whose most influential stockholders is Andrew W. Mellon . . . perhaps...
...Trade Commission, last week, published a report recommending measures to increase competition in the production of anthracite, contending that 70% of the production is in the hands of eight operators). In the bituminous fields, there is no monopoly tendency; there are many mines and cut-throat competition. The possible soft-coal production is 25% or more greater than the demand...
...recent book*, John L. Lewis gave a very clearheaded, illuminating and, on the whole, fair-minded discussion of this situation, especially in the bituminous fields. He contended that War prices and strikes with temporary high prices had brought about overexpansion of the soft-coal industry. As a result, there are many high-cost mines; and, in competition with one another, they lower wages (if they can) in an attempt to keep running. As a result, there are strikes, shortages, temporary inflation of coal prices and more overexpansion. He contended that the only way to stabilize the industry was by maintaining...
...Union soft-coal operators should repudiate their agreement, there would be a strike. If this came in combination with a strike in the anthracite regions, there would be a coal scarcity, prices would soar and, for a time, all mines could open up and sell at a profit...
Against gunpowder, what chance has the poor pard, the feeble tiger, the defenseless lion? Lords once of the jungle, they are driven ever back into their forests, away from the soft fat flesh of the deer. But go where they will, gunpowder follows relentlessly until, at last, cornered, they turn, crouch, roar terribly, and leap-into bullets of death-dealing steel. Is this justice, is this sportmanship...