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Coal strikes come when work-&-wage contracts between operators and miners expire. The present contract for the all-important anthracite fields* lapses Aug. 31. For three hot weeks in Manhattan a Union committee of six led by John Llewellyn Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America struggled in secret session with an operators' committee of six led by William W. Inglis of Glen Alden Coal Co. to negotiate a new agreement. Last week the two committees emerged in friendly fellowship with a new contract for hard-coal mining which each acclaimed as a guarantee of long industrial peace...
...spoken darkly of the economic necessity of reducing the cost of producing anthracite to meet the competition of fuel oil. They implied that cost reduction could be accomplished only by a lower wage scale. Miners had stoutly maintained that they would never agree to lower wages. The new contract continues the present wage scale where- under hard-coal diggers receive from...
...house 5,000 workmen and families. Construction job No. 3: $18,000,000 tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert the river's flow while the dam is being built. The whole construction job will be under the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation which will contract with private firms to do the work...
Controlled by Baltimore interests, the company will establish next June the first direct trans-Atlantic passenger service out of Baltimore since the War. Freight and mail (the company has an encouraging governmental mail contract) will be the most important revenue sources. The company will operate five oil-burning ships between Baltimore and Hamburg, must build others to hold its mail contract. These the U. S. Shipping Board, pleased at Baltimore's maritime enterprise, sold for $30,000 apiece; went further last week and awarded Baltimore Mail a generous loan ($6,540,000 at 3%) to be used for reconditioning...
...president is John M. Franklin, able son of able Philip A. S. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine Co. fame, and vice president of Roosevelt Steamship Co. This latter company is much involved in Baltimore Mail. With Baltimore Trust Co., it led in organizing the new line, and the mail contract is in its name. Baltimore's two trunk railroads, Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio, are also represented among the line's directors. Pennsylvania has a financial interest, will supply rail connections, will let the new line dock at its Canton Co. Terminal, where about $5,000,000 will...