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...would never sign another agreement with United Mine Workers. Before him on the table now lay such an agreement-a fat document providing for the unionization of all the soft coal mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, part of Kentucky.- Offshoot of the NRA coal code, the agreement prescribed conditions of labor for some 314,000 diggers in hitherto non-union mines. It gave United Mine Workers their own checkweightmen, their own grievance committees, freed them from the necessity of living in company houses, trading at company stores, opened new jobs now held by some...
...Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers before March 4. They claimed 300,000 members but of these probably less than half paid dues. From field after field Leader Lewis' organizers had been kicked...
...death preceded Governor Pinchot's declaration of martial law and his dispatch of guardsmen. A temporary peace was patched up when President Roosevelt sent Deputy Administrator McGrady into the coal fields as his personal emissary to promise the strikers a square deal under NRA. With mining resumed, coal code negotiations at Washington settled down into a long pull-dick-pull-devil between operators and Union Leader Lewis. General Johnson coaxed, wheedled, stormed without success. Fortnight ago he was ready to rivet a code of his own on the industry. Last week he changed his mind, turned back to hard...
...July strike was a young Irish redhead named Martin Ryan. He was president of the U. M. W. local at Colonial No. 4 mine of H. C. Frick Coke Co., U. S. Steel Corp. subsidiary. His glib influence over fellow workers was greater than that of Leader Lewis whose code activities in Washington Miner Ryan distrusted. He harangued the men out of the pits when Lewis implored them to stick. He was the last to consent to a compromise with the operators. As delay followed delay on the code, he blew hot words on the miners' discontent...
...fight against "dictatorship" occurred when newspaper publishers insisted on eliminating all licensing provisions from their NRA code (TIME, Aug. 28). Said Dean Ackerman...