Word: weighmen
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...miners in the Pittsburgh Area struck. By June 9 they numbered 19,000, including 4,000 West Virginia miners who walked out weeks before. They protested "starvation wages," poor working conditions, poor living conditions, non-union check weighmen at the tipples (scales). Not only were they disgruntled at their employers but with each other, for their strength was divided between two unions-the old United Mine Workers of America (affiliated with the American Federation of Labor) and the New National Miners Union of Communist com- plexion, formed in 1928. Each disavowed the other. The National said the United had betrayed...
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