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Also last week the Commission ordered a revision of livestock freight rates. For the western trunk line territory whence come 40% of U. S. cattle, 60% of hogs, a 10% average upping was granted. Southwestern rates were cut 6%, while those in the Mountain-Pacific area were reduced...
...equal Greater London's area, Greater New York (the five boroughs) would have to count noses throughout its "metropolitan area," including New York State's Westchester & Nassau Counties, New Jersey's Hudson, Essex, Union & Bergen Counties. Total...
...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...
Because it was summer, because coal mining is already the most overmanned industry in the land, the strike in the Pittsburgh Area produced no fuel shortage, affected the comfortable habits of 122,000,000 people...
Governor Pinchot's first step toward patching up the quarrel was to call a secret meeting between President Samuel Pursglove of Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. (a $23,000,000 concern operating seven mines at present and second in the Area only to Pittsburgh Coal Co.) and United Mine Workers officials on June 18. United Mine Workers had already agreed with two smaller companies on a wage scale of 58? a ton for loading machine-mined coal, 78? a ton for "picked" coal. $4.80 for day work. Upshot of Pittsburgh Terminal's conference with the union was that last...