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Coal bootlegging is a Depression answer to mass unemployment. The entire U. S. anthracite industry is concentrated in 500 sq. mi. in Pennsylvania. In this one-industry area the closing of a big colliery may end the only payroll in a coal town. One by one the collieries have been closed because the U. S. now burns less than two-thirds the anthracite it used ten years ago. For this there are many reasons, including strikes, high prices and poor merchandising, which have conspired to advance the competitive position of fuels like oils, gas, coke. In 1924 total anthracite sales...
...contributed $100,000 to the same strike; Lee Pressman, "purged" from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1934, who had joined the committee as counsel. President Van A. Bittner of the West Virginia miners' union was told off to direct the assault on non-union Steel in the Chicago area. The South was assigned to William Mitch, district mine president of Alabama. To Clinton S. Golden, onetime official of the National Labor Relations Board, was assigned direct charge of the East. On top of the whole field organization was placed pious and progressive U.M.W. Secretary & Treasurer Philip Francis Murray...
...casually tells a story of a young gunman who killed an unoffending Indian while his whole party was in the hands of the savages. The Indians demanded only his life in return, flayed him alive, while in a similar situation whites would have exterminated all the Indians in the area. Sallie Reynolds traveled to Colorado and back to Texas, married Bud Matthews, bore him eight children. Her book is filled with good plain Texas names such as Flake Barber and Si Hough, with accounts of droughts, troubles with banks, hard winters, written without heroics
...Charles Hardy Eastwood, Newark water equipment manufacturer, declared that he sends employes into every flood-afflicted area, foots the bill himself, considers it good advertising. During the severe floods last spring, Eastwood had men with portable chlorinators in 14 States. Where they worked there were no cases of disease attributable to polluted water...
...first time in the memory of West Coast produce dealers, spring potatoes are moving as far east as Manhattan. Farmers of California's famed Shafter area, which is producing virtually all new Western potatoes at the moment, will gross some $8,000,000 from 9,000 acres- more than the entire California crop from 45,000 acres brought last year...