Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...districts. This, of course, badly disturbed arrangements for patronage in the Prohibition unit. Senators protested. A few changes were made in the districting. Indiana was grouped in a district with northern Illinois and eastern Wisconsin instead of with Michigan (Senator James E. Watson protesting successfully), Virginia was grouped with West Virginia instead of with Maryland (C. Bascom Slemp protesting successfully...
...Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers in West Virginia, wired Secretary of Commerce Hoover that soft-coal producing companies were attempting to break their wage contract (negotiated at Jacksonville, Fla., a year ago last spring). He said that attempts were being made to lower wages 50%, that armed gunmen were being employed to intimidate the miners, that hundreds of miners were being evicted from their homes by their employer landlords, that, if the Federal Government did not take a stand against the breaking of the wage contract by soft-coal miners, the Union miners of hard and soft coal...
...Union fields accepted a high wage contract, thinking perhaps that it would force high-cost mines to close and reduce competition. Instead, it resulted in closing down most of the Unionized soft-coal mines and diverting business to the non-Union fields of Kentucky, Tennessee and part of West Virginia-where operators cut prices by reducing wages. Now Union operators want to get back in business by cutting wages in competition-but their wage contract runs 18 months more (until Mar. 31, 1927). Hence the soft-coal trouble...
That Homer Bryan, who sang from the West...
...defeat at the polls. He became editor of The Omaha World-Herald (owned by Gilbert M. Hitchcock) and went from his editorial office as a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1896?the beginning of his political ascendency. He went to speak for the farmers of the West who believed their troubles were caused by a shortage of currency. He went to the Convention demanding the free and unlimited coinage of silver, crying: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall !not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold...