Word: localitis
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...that the public would not tolerate the resulting increase in coal prices. The miners answered that the steel workers and bituminous miners were getting more than they. John L. Lewis characterized the discussions as "neither amicable nor heated." Reports from the Schuylkill region asserted that almost half of the local unions were in revolt against the check-off demand of John L. Lewis and the miners' representatives in the joint wage conference. The reason given for this attitude by the Schuylkill miners is the fear that under the check-off the union might make excessive assessments and fines against...
...soil and were settled according to the Mussolini method: At Molinella, near Bologna. Twenty-six people were wounded in a fight which took place between the Fascisti and the Communists. It was alleged that the Communists threw three bombs at the Fascist headquarters and at the home of a local Fascist leader. At Campoligure, near Genoa. Thirty persons were wounded in a fight between the Fascisti and opposing forces. The trouble arose because the anti-Fascisti objected to and interfered with the funeral of a local hero, Paolo Santamaria, whose body had been brought back from the former Italian battle...
That afternoon a great number of policemen went out on strike. Disorder broke out and lasted through the right. Early the next morning Mayor Peters called out the local militia (in accordance with his authority in emergencies) and requested Governor Coolidge for more troops. By night the situation was well in hand. On the following day Governor Coolidge issued his proclamation calling out the militia and condemning the strikers. The friends of Mr. Coolidge declare that he took no action in advance of the strike because he was in touch with the Police Commissioner and was misled by the latter...
...waited Lieutenant Griffith, U. S. Army, and "Prince" Gargarin, a Russian. After the shooting a crowd menaced the two in the car, who promptly started for Heidelberg and were arrested en route, charged with attempting to kidnap Bergdoll. Bergdoll went free of any homicidal charge. He was a local hero. Lieutenant Griffith and " Prince " Gargarin, jailed and awaiting a trial, escaped a lynching by no great margin...
Organization of the Operators. The operators have no permanent organization for dealing with the union, which, in the opinion of the Commission, is detrimental to the industry. When wage agreements are negotiated a General Policies Committee represents the operators. But otherwise companies deal individually with local unions. The result is much difference in the attitudes of various operators in dealing with the actual application of the agreement. The policies of the operators are of many shades, from the one extreme ("peace-at-any-price" group) to the other extreme ("get-away-with-what- ever-you-can" group...