Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carl E. Lesher, militant vice president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., took the stand to answer questions fired by a mine union attorney. This colloquy dwelt chiefly on strikebreaking conditions at the mines, lurid with references to Pinkerton detectives, lewd Negroes' criminal assaults on mine women. Mr. Lesher passed on to his chief, President John D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., responsibility for the company's newspaper advertisements of last fortnight, which asserted that the investigating Senators were "prejudiced." Mr. Lesher said: "Perhaps we are unfortunate in that our material is prosaic and that...
...There is nothing prosaic about abrogating a contract," snapped Senator Wheeler. The Pittsburgh Coal Company's reasoning was that, though it agreed to pay union miners $7.50 per day, it did not agree to employ union miners any longer than it saw fit. It was employing non-union men before and after the signing of the agreement, with the unions' knowledge. When it reduced the non-union men's pay to $6 per day in 1925, and began replacing union men with non-union men it was, it claimed, "acting legally." According to Miner Lewis, this action...
...Clive '24, of the Department of Anthropology, who last year make a trip to Africa alone will speak at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Union, illustrating his lecture with pictures. Clive was the first explorer to visit the district of the Siwa Oasis...
...names of ten prospective candidates. Voters may cast their ballots for any name not included on the list. On Monday the polling-place will be open all day in the Law School and for part of the day in the Business School. Ballot-boxes will be placed in the Union and the Freshman halls at lunch time. A poll in the Crimson Building will be open both days...
...Irish influence in the United States is undoubtedly tremendous. Governor Smith, says the press, will wear a green scarf and green socks to celebrate the occasion. The Western Union has concocted a series of "Top o' the mornin' to you" telegrams pasted on green blanks. Shamrocks sprout in every stationery store window. Nature looks complacently on her favorite sons and does her best to hurry along the forces of spring and tint the grass green. And the Irish poets do their best to prove that she has succeeded...