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...Mine owners have forgotten restriction agreements, are trying to get onto a six-day week. Chief obstacle: the labor supply, long unemployed and insecure, of Appalachian coal fields is now insufficient. Last week, for the first time since immigration days, mine owners were broadcasting daily appeals for miners and foremen...
...less furiously attack the stubborn soil, the inn grins impishly This impasse has gone on for several weeks now, with neither side-the Maintenance Department nor Nature-willing to concede an inch. Gradually, frustration is showing on the men's faces, and only daily pep talks from the foremen prevent their morale from snapping...
...also tightens seniority rules, giving less advantage to foremen, more to U. A. W. members. It allows dues collections on company property but not on company time...
...large heaps of earth which were used as breastworks in the recent seige of the University in the partition of Cambridge battle will be removed when the work of laying the pipes for the increased electrical load is completed. This will not be in the near future, foremen said...
...Committee but a Federal grand jury at Albuquerque, N. M. exposed the hottest WPA political scandal of the year. It indicted 73 people for using WPA as a political machine, giving work-relief preference to obedient voters, exacting political contributions from WPAsters by threats and intimidation, organizing WPA foremen and timekeepers into vote-compelling "social clubs," taking WPAsters off their work to pack a political parade and then falsifying the rolls to make it seem they had been working...