Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity that has been coming out of Western Pennsylvania the last few weeks, in relation to the strike situation and the operations of the coal companies, is no doubt promoted by the miners' organization. Lots of the material is untrue. Much of this publicity is overdrawn and designed for only one purpose-to elicit public sympathy for a losing cause...
They were the U. S. Senators appointed to investigate strike conditions in bituminous Pennsylvania under the Johnson resolution (TIME, Feb. 27)-Idaho's English-born Gooding, Montana's long-nosed Wheeler, chunky Wagner of New York (born in Germany) and Oklahoma's quiet little Pine. Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island was supposed to have been with them but he fell...
...first part of the tour was dedicated to getting the strikers' viewpoint. A tabloid newspaper's representative was appointed official photographer. He snapped his shutter delightedly as the four dignitaries played Santa-Claus-taking-orders among the dishevelled strike barracks-shaking horny hands, patting grimy little heads, listening to angry women who had lost husbands or health or unborn babies, or who complained that they had been insulted, assaulted, injured by Governor Fisher's Coal & Iron Police or the operator's "scabs," many of whom are Negroes...
Colorado's I. W. W. coal strike, current since October, ended last week. Wobbly Tom Connors, strike chief, announced that a statewide ballot (the second one cast within a month) was 88% in favor of returning to work. Another Wobbly leader gave the reason: "The slack season is upon us. It is foolish to strike when the bosses can meet the demand for coal by keeping a few scabs at work...
Both sides claimed victory, though the specific points at issue during the strike still awaited judgment by the Industrial Commission. The I. W. W. pointed to the perfection of an organization through which Colorado miners can exact higher wages when the slack season ends. Also, a Federal court decision in the strike's closing days restored to the strikers the right of habeas corpus, unconstitutionally denied them when Governor William H. Adams declared parts of Colorado to be in a "state of insurrection" (TIME...