Word: railroadmen
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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About 200,000 union miners left their jobs, most of them with money in the bank, some prepared to raise chickens and vegetables, others ready to work in factories. Manufacturers and railroadmen, who are the largest consumers of bituminous coal, refused to be alarmed. Ninety million tons are above ground, in storage, in freight cars-and, then too, the non-union mines in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee produce 65% of the nation's soft coal needs...