Word: westing
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Charles MacVeagh was born at West Chester, Pa., in 1860, and graduated from Harvard in 1881. Since 1883 he has been a lawyer in Manhattan; since 1901, General Solicitor of the U. S. Steel Corporation. He is a member of the law firm of which John W Davis is a member...
...strike, due to failure (TIME, Aug. 31) to reach a new wage contract, comtinuing for its second month in the nation's anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, and with no prospect of a settlement there in sight, John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, traveled into West Virginia to start a strike there...
...West Virginia coal fields are unionized only in small part. But Van A. Bittner, agent of the United Mine Workers, has been busy there trying to bring that region under the Union's dominance. He issued a strike order that took effect last week, and the mine leaders led by Mr. Lewis went down to celebrate the opening of the strike in an effort to make it successful...
...Significance. The question at stake in West Virginia is not only whether the Union shall gain as complete control of bituminous coal mining as it has of anthrasite, but also of whether the anthracite strike shall be successful. For while the anthracite mines are shut, a good part of their clientele is being supplied from the West Virginia bituminous region. A strike in West Virginia would make the Pennsylvania strike, effective...
George E. Brennan who took the Illinois vote east to the Democratic National Convention in Manhattan 15 months ago, last week took the Governor of New York west to Chicago. He arrived in a private car with 15 backers and carried Al Smith off for a day in Chicago and a big Democratic picnic. "We asked him to come because we liked him," said Mr. Brennan affably...