Word: mining
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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...
Check-Off. For 28 years union miners have been asking the operators to agree to a device whereby the employer deducts ("checks-off") from the employe's wages whatever dues or assessments the Union claims from its member, and hands them over directly to the Union treasury. The Mine Workers wanted the "checkoff" because it would keep their treasury full and save them some $200,000 per year now lost in nonpayment of dues or spent on collectors to round up delinquent mem- bers after payday. Operators had refused this demand because they did not wish to help strengthen...
...thing!' Something like that for the children on the old cement kiln across the courtyard from the mill. I went to see the decorator Joseph Urban who designs the stage settings for the Metropolitan Opera, and he's been hard at work on this Gingerbread House of mine for two years. It cost $50,000, but if it brings the children and their mothers, it's well worth...
...year from now TIME will report the financial status of this Dougherty family. Arthur Court of Indianapolis, onetime janitor, who won $84,750 in the English Derby last year, last week had "only a few thousand" left. His investments: a spar mine in Illinois, some bonds now down $200 each, two farms, a barbecue stand with filling station and dance hall...
...Debs' whiskey drinking and the "free love" scandals of Socialism. The Author. Me Alister Coleman, 42, New York City Socialist, was a newsman for four years on the New York Sun. Pub licity work for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. made him a radical. He now publicizes for the United Mine Workers (Springfield faction [TiME. March 24]). He reported the Scopes trial, the Herron trial, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial for labor papers. Politically minded, he ran for Alderman fn 1927, for U. S. Senator...