Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representatives of the United Mine Workers came, led by John L. Lewis, their president. It was at their reiterated request (TIME, Nov. 28, Dec. 5) that Secretary Davis had issued his invitations. With some 100,000 members on unsuccessful strike since last spring in bituminous Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, the United Mine workers had passed from anger to anxiety to anguish...
...when Secretary Davis telegraphed potent mine operators in the strike area, begging them to to use his office as a meeting room to reach an agreement with Labor, most of of them declined. Potent operators have organized their mines with non-union labor since last spring. Wages are where they (the operators) want them. Such operators congratulate themselves on having "broken Labor's stranglehold on the industry...
Coal Ultimatum. Hearing how many a potent coal mine operator had declined to accept Secretary of Labor Davis's invitation to a strike-settlement conference (see THE CABINET), Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, lone Socialist in the House, offered a resolution to have the U. S. take over the coal mines if the operators sought to "continue to rule or ruin, as they see fit, one of the Nation's basic industries." In 1902, when under similar conditions President Roosevelt issued a similar ultimatum, the coal operators surrendered. Last week, the House referred Mr. Berger's resolution...
...mechanical engineers of middle age, Mr. Schwab's doctrines had a further significance. Those men could recall the bloody Homestead Strike of 1892 when Mr. Schwab, then one of the late Andrew Carnegie's "young men" and a superintendent of the Carnegie Steel Co., was obliged to proceed violently against the steel employes. The company had ordered wages reduced. The workmen refused to work for less money and took possession of the steel 'works. The company hired Pinkerton detectives who, armed with Winchester rifles, came up the Ohio River on two barges. The workmen threw up barricades...
...native London. Packed, he rings for a waiter that he may sup in his hotel room. The bell is unanswered. Septimius descends to the lobby. There he finds the other guests of the hotel in a state of considerable confusion. The entire kitchen staff has gone on strike. Count Veruda (of unknown antecedents) has asked everyone to join him at dinner on his yacht which is lying in the harbor. Some of the ladies have demurred through lack of confidence in the count. One of these ladies, Miss Harriet Perkins, confers with Septimius. Septimius suddenly discovers that he would much...