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The article examines the condition of the coal mining industry in the U.S. in 1974. It forecasts that the supply of coal will fall short of demand for many months despite the possible increase in coal output in the said year. It states that the democratic reforms established by Arnold R. Miller, president of the United Mine Workers (UMW), affected UMW. It notes that Miller and his miners consider 1974 as the year of the coal miner.

Highlights sufferings of coal mine workers with black lung disease in the United States. Symptoms of this disease; Lack of social welfare programs to support mine workers; Impact of vagueness in the language in federally supported public assistance schemes on Medicare received by disabled workers; Flaws in court rulings on this issue; Risks and dangers involved in working in a coal mine.

The article presents examples that depict the effectiveness of employees' representation in decision making in steel and coal companies in the U.S. It was the United Mine Workers of America that proposed the plan to Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. In Minnequa Steel Works, employees were able to obtain an eight-hour day and enjoyed an increase in their wages. One failure of the employees' representation is the lack of industrial peace.

Focuses on socio-political updates related to the U.S. Report on a conference on reduction of armament; Discussion on international affairs related to French debts to England and the United States; Information on different kinds of martial law; Revival of crusade against Bolshevism; Prohibition of the Croatian Peasant party on the ground that it is linked with the peasants' communist group at Moscow; View that airplane will be the chief weapon both for offense and defense in the next war; Suggestion that every inhabitant be provided with an efficient gas mask with replacements from time to time; Imposition of taxes on citizens who were the necessary agents of state governments; Discussion on a ship-subsidy law to be passed by the U.S. Congress; Resolution on the safety of coal miners.

Focuses on the problems and anxieties of the United Mine Workers in Pennsylvania. Details of the electoral process of electing representatives for the union; Assertion of the author that the miners are wise but not conservative; Debate on the Coal Wages Board on the labor hours and wages of coal miners.

Describes the court proceedings in the case involving coal miners and the U.S. government heard by Indiana Judge Albert Barnes Anderson. Claim of an affidavit from West Virginia that some miners there were breaking a special contract; Presence of the United Mine Workers of America statistician and secretary-treasurer in the hearing; Statement made by President Woodrow Wilson condemning the strike of the workers; Defense of the miners' lawyer that his clients are not conspiring to stop the government's railroads; Details of the injunction brought forward by the lawyer; Efforts of Anderson in settling the dispute.

This article focuses on various recent socio-political developments and issues across the world. It first describes some experimental political developments concerning disputes between the railways and employees in the U.S. When the conference between coal miners and operators began in February 1916, and there was fear of a strike the country knew that it had no legal provision for preventing such a calamity. General sentiment has proved powerful, not merely in halting incipient strikes, but in inducing capital and labor to make trade agreements for arbitration, or to hold regular joint conferences to adjust differences. In Australia and New Zealand legislation has gone farther than in Canada. It is described that the New Zealand compulsory-arbitration act creates a number of industrial districts, in each of which is aboard of conciliation to which disputes must be referred. Another news item reports about changes in German opinion concerning the flow of newspapers, pamphlets, and books, which are now almost unobtainable in the U.S.

Presents an account of the author's visit to Kentucky, to provide relief to the striking coal miners. Distribution of several tons of food to the miners; Conclusion that neither the miners nor those who attempt to help them have any legal rights in the Kentucky coal regions; Reasons for the continuation of class struggle in Kentucky; Factors responsible for the disorganization of the coal industry; Average weekly wages of a coal miner; Forms of deductions in the wages; Life and standard of living of coal operators; Lack of any central wares house where relief supplies can be stored and regularly distributed; Fear of the coal operators to announce that openly that no food can be given to the miners; Claim of the operators that they are doing their own relief work through the Red Cross; Propaganda by the operators that National Miners Union is connected with the Communist party; Announcement of the operators that miners, like communists do not have any constitutional rights; Arrest of the friends of the author, who were found talking with the miners.

Describes the miserable living condition of coal diggers at Ward, which is situated in a long narrow valley among the West Virginia hills with emphasis on the role played by Frank Keeney, the district president of the miners. Description of working hours of coal miners as they work from eight to twelve hours a day and they get paid not in United States currency, but in chicken-feed specially coined by the companies--little fake aluminum coins, thin and light and some of them with holes in the middle like the debased French and German currency that was issued at the end of the World War I; Investigation into the goods sold at the company store, which is the only place where the miners can trade, as the company will, of course, not allow any other store to be built on its property; Thrust on the malpractice of operators who cut miners' wages in times of slump and make up the difference to themselves and their stockholders by getting more work for less pay out of the miners; Protest registered by the miners under the leadership of Frank Keeney in the form of march; Selection of John L. Lewis as the new president of the United Mine Workers of America.

Focuses on issues related to political developments in different countries. Policies adopted by U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Vietnam war; Implications of the victory of the association Miners for Democracy for coal miners of the U.S.; Aspects of Australian politics that are indicated by the election of a labor government in the country; Others.

Rats are the best safety devices a coal miner can have. A rat knows when there will about to be a rock fall a lot quicker than any seasoned miner. They can also tell bad air and they stay away from it. Modern technology, however, is doing little or nothing for the miner. Coal mining continues to be the most dangerous occupation in the U.S. The U.S. federal safety law of 1952 was hailed as a long step forward in mine safety. Yet, between the passage of the law and 1968, 5,500 miners were killed and 220,000 were severely injured.

The article presents information about health problems faced by several people working in the coal industry. Ray Hutchinson, working in the coal mine says that miner should be president. He had to retire from the mines a few mouths ago because he couldn't breathe any more. He is all out of breath if he climbs two flights of staffs or walk around his yard a couple of times. He always sleep with his head on three pillows and have to take three or four different medicines. Jesse Green, a retired miner, lives in a small frame house down the street from an iron and pipe foundry in Bessemer. His dad worked in the mines for over fifty years, he started when he was only 10. Two years ago he died from lung disease. Most of the old miners is gone now. They had to be tough. Back when they were first organizing, the operators would treat a miner like a mule. In fact, they treated their mules better.

The article focuses on politics and voting for coal unions among coal miners. Coal miners in the U.S. faces crisis on each working day of their life. The health issue of these worker is never given a priority rather production has been in minds of operators and union leaders. There has been a long and bitter contest for presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, between Lou Antal and Michael Budzanoski. The results of the election stunned everyone. Lou Antal won by 514 votes, but 1192 absentee ballots remain to be counted. With possibility of tempering these votes controversy began. It led to strikes and shortage of coal in the country. Miners for Democracy plans to challenge the legality of absentee ballots.

It is the traditional act of rebellion. Since no miner would think of going below without water, dumping it means he is personally on strike and is appealing to his comrades to join him. They always do. Coal miners, because they are both rural people and industrial workers, combine perfectly the elements of Populism that leads to an easy, willing militancy. They stick together and they are infinitely loyal to their own totems. So when one man dumped, they all dumped, and within a week the coal fields of West Virginia were awash with rebellion, linking more than 40,000 miners in the biggest wildcat strike of modern times. It closed the industry.

After a period far longer than had at one time been hoped, but far shorter than the intensity of the struggle led many to fear might be possible, the fearfully costly strike of the British coal miners at least seems clearly, drawing to a close. Swiss are often blamed for their dislike of fresh air. Churches, university lecture-rooms, tramways, and restaurants are badly ventilated there. To some extent, this accounts for the prevalence of tuberculosis in this excellent climate. It is therefore satisfactory to remark that open-air schools for children have been founded near some of the larger towns. Poor children in the canton can easily reach the place by tramway.

The article deals with the battle among 8,000 Japanese coal miners who are split into two opposing mobs and fought over whether or not anyone should go back to work at Mitsui Mining Company's Miike mine on Kyushu, Japan after a two-month lockout and strike. The rioting that took place in April 1960 left one dead. The clash is regarded by the Japanese press as a final showdown between total capitalism and total labor. Background on the dispute at the mine is provided.

Presents information on the demands of the coal miners. Differences between the coal miners union and government which gave rise to the strike; Blame on miners for the strike; Aspects of wartime requirements of the country; Opinion of John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, on the strike; Attempts to split the union from its leader by falsely implicating Lewis; Projection of Lewis being responsible for the strike; Proposal for negotiation by Dr. John R. Steelman, a government mediator; Role of the U.S. Office of Price Administration in checking inflation.

This article presents the author's perspective on news for the week of May 3, 1943. U.S. Congressman Eugene Cox is embroiled in a dispute with the Federal Communications Commission while John L. Lewis of the AFL-CIO is agitating for a coal miners strike. The author expresses his horror at Japanese atrocities against American prisoners of war.

The article focuses on the impoverish condition of the coal miners in the Appalachian South. The coal miners are largely left to rot on surplus government food and the small doles of a half-hearted welfare state. The old grandfathers of its pupils fought for the right to be human in the bloody mine wars from 1912 to 1921. A frustrating interplay of such forces as obsolete agriculture, depleted timber resources, a high birth rate, rapid mechanization of coal mining, the declining demand for coal, short-sighted and selfish political-business leadership, and scarcity of industrial jobs have coalesced to create the chronic poverty of the Appalachians.

The article focuses on the fourth-round labor crisis experienced in the U.S. for 1949, with about 500,000 soft- and hard-coal miners on strike, a notice from steel and fabricating plant unions of a future strike and a possible shut down of the Ford Motor Co. plants. Philip Murray offered the government that the strike will be hold off if a 4 cents increase an hour in welfare benefits and 6 cents in pensions be given to steel workers. The coal industry immediately staged a strike upon hearing the recommendations from the government.

The article reports on the coal mining industry in Great Britain which suffering from lower productivity. According to John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, the productivity of the American coal miners is six times of the Britishers due to the modernization and mechanization of American mines. It reports on its nationalization by the British government by taking into confidence the National Union of Mineworkers to address the labor productivity and decreased manpower.

The article presents news related to socio-political issues in the U.S. as of August 28, 1897. The peacefulness of the great coal strikes which has now been going on for several weeks, has attracted universal attention, and no one will grudge the miners the credit, they have got for it. Their quiet attitude is all the more creditable to them because a certain portion of the press have done their utmost during the whole period to incite the men to violence. There ought to be men as well qualified to certify to the merits of railroad bonds as the men who now certify to the merits of land-titles. They should make it their business to analyze and verify the official reports of corporations, and to check these reports by collateral investigations and comparisons.

This article presents information on political conditions in the U.S. during 1925. Governor Alfred E. Smith has defeated the Republican leaders in New York State. Though this Democratic victory does add to the prestige of Governor Smith, his real achievement was the carrying of the State for the four proposed amendments to the constitution, especially one granting authority for a bond issue of $100,000,000 for a State building program. On July 18, 1925 Secretary of Labor James Davis, said that the government has decided upon positive steps to be taken in case of a coal strike. A plan had been thought out which U.S. President Calvin Coolidge believes will be effective in the event the miners and operators fail to reach a settlement by the end of August.

The documentary history of the great South African strike shows the process whereby an industrial struggle can develop into a war and economic issues broaden and change. The sanguinary conflict which has just closed began at the end of December with a strike of coal miners on the Rand following an announced cut of five shillings per shift in wages. The workers claimed, according to the Cape Times, that while their pay had been increased by some 50 per cent, the cost of living had risen 86 per cent, and that the 5s. cut in wages would not result in sufficient saving to improve the export trade. The coal owners asserted that the cost of living could not be taken into consideration; that the price of coal would not permit the continuance of increased wages; and that if wages were not reduced many mines would go out of action.

The article discusses how industries can create a labor recruiting policy through the statistical interpretation of routine employment data. The author reports that most industries, especially the mining and construction branches, encounter the problem of securing adequate labor to operate their plants or construction jobs. The study presented in the article focuses on one particular coal mine that found it costly to replace its workers from its high turnover rate. The author shows how he used statistical data from the company's past employment records to create a labor recruiting policy for the company.

The article discusses the economic aspects of the coal industry in the context of business leadership. It presents the history of the industry in the context of the theory of American exceptionalism. It evaluates how economic depression has had extremely negative social affects on areas of the United States where coal production is the main source of income, and forecasts what is to come for the industry.

The article provides world news briefs for the week ending September 29, 1941. Germany has given Bulgaria an ultimatum to join the war against the Soviet Union or be completely occupied by the German army; sources claim sabotage is going on and schools had to be closed. Millionaire Marshall Field III announced plans to publish a Chicago daily newspaper in competition with the Chicago Tribune. Coal miners in Pennsylvania have gone on strike to protest increased union assessments.

Focuses on the plight of coal miners in the U.S. with the loss of thousands of lives on yearly basis in spite of the remarkable advance in technical knowledge and engineering skill to overcome the physical impediments to mining, and despite the development of labor-saving machinery. Prime causes of mine explosions; Pros and cons associated with the use of safety lamps by miners to avoid accidents in the mines; Ignorance of coal companies in the U.S. to regulate safety measures to further prevention of accidents; Account of the work of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the study of mine explosions, their cause and prevention; Analysis of the work of the Bureau in the field of First Aid and in studying accidents other than mine explosions.

The article discusses some of the political updates related to the U.S. The Republican platform called for a foreign policy, which while firm and vigorous, should also be dignified. The party's theory of dignified diplomacy seems to be a mixture of deceit and slang hanging. The struggle of the coal-miners to secure higher wages naturally arouses the sympathy of benevolent people. The prices at which bituminous coal has been sold have been such as to render it impossible for capitalists to make a profit out of the business if they paid the miners living wages and it is doubtful if any profits have been made even with the low wages actually paid.

This article presents information about economics and politics. It is very difficult to say anything intelligent about abandoning Samoa, without knowing more than the world generally knows about the reasons for the Americans going there. It would probably never have entered into the head of any one in the U.S. to go near the islands if some German traders had not established themselves there early in the 1970s. The land of the islands has for many years been going steadily to the Germans and other foreign traders. The fact that there is a general strike among the miners of soft coal throughout the region east of the Mississippi River is well known. The supply of bituminous coal is, in consequence of this strike, becoming so small as to threaten serious results in the near future.

This section offers U.S. business news briefs as of September 1925. More than 158,000 anthracite coal miners from the United Mine Workers of America (UAW) went on strike on August 31, 1925. Net operating income of 60 railroads reporting for July 1925 totals 80.94 million U.S. dollars. The total of ships under construction reached 2.339 million tons as of June 30, 1925.

The article presents a reprint of the article "Are You As Well Paid As These? Here Are Salary Lists of Typical Concerns, With Pointers on Getting Raises" by B.C. Forbes, which appeared in "The American Magazine." It focuses on salaries in the U.S. and offers tips on getting raises. It discusses topics on the industries that offer opportunities for rising to large salaries including the oil industry, age in relation to salaries, and the list of salaries for executive and managerial positions.

Presents information on a report issued by the Committee of Inquiry on Coal and Civil Liberties regarding the violation of civil rights of American citizens working in coal mines. Indication of evidences of specific instances of the violation of civil rights of individuals; Discussion of documents showing general conditions existing in coal mining communities which tend to deprive people of their commonly accepted civil and legal rights; Information on the condition arising out of the relation of landlord and tenant which exists between the operating companies and their workmen; Fact that the Committee submitted eighteen leases used by coal companies, which show the kind and degree of control exercised by the companies as landlords over their employees; Focus on the question that whether the condition of control under which the workers live is worthy of freemen and American citizens; Comment on the enforced waiving of legal rights by the tenant-worker; Exposure of the practice in coal-producing states of having the deputy sheriffs paid, armed, and used by the operating companies; Opinion that the employment of the National Guard in Alabama for breaking a strike by prohibiting meetings, assemblies, or speeches of whatever sort, even the regular business meetings of union locals.

Focuses on the financial consequences of currently placed strikes in the railroad and coal industries of the U.S. Possibility of unemployment problem consequent to U.S. automobile manufacturer Henry Ford's announcement for plant's closure; Estimate of losses in total industrial outputs; Concern of industrialists to abate the evil of unemployment; Negotiations between the twenty-six railroads and the unions; Discussion over the rise of so-called junkerism of the employing class; Significance of unionism in industrial constitution; Condemnation of labor leaders for worsening the situation; End of the semi-official relation between government and organized labor; Discussion of the so-called "American plan" for effective unionism including readjustment of wage scales; Offenses against unionism by miners and railroad workers and to get labor power.

Comments on political and social developments around the world. Information on fighting in Dublin, Ireland, between the troops of the Free State and the Republican Irregulators; Significance of U.S. President Warren G. Harding's demand that the Alien Property Custodian shall take steps to secure the return of German patents purchased by the American Chemical Foundation from the Alien Property Custodian; Need for German patents in the development of the American dye industry and the manufacture of munitions; Information on Harding's address in opening the conference of representatives of the coal companies and the miners; Issue of differences between the representatives of operators and those of the miners; Reaction of the American public towards kidnapping of director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, A. Bruce Bielaski; Breakthrough in the legal differences between the oil men and the Mexican government; Information on political conditions in North Dakota; Situations in which Russians can restore the German properties they had confiscated; Information on the closure of the Russian Information Bureau.

Focuses on political developments that have taken place in the U.S. and around the world. Protest against the seizure of Haiti by the U.S.; Comments on the rejection of the principle of compensation for foreign property confiscated in Russia in lieu of restoration of the property; Proposal of miners regarding the investigation and publishing of the true costs of coal from mine to consumer; Discussion of the imposition of the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill in the U.S.; Focus on the situation in China after the toppling of the Manchu dynasty; Discussion of the debate over military training, under the guidance of the War Department, in high schools of Minneapolis; Speculation on the consequences of the Genoa Conference.

Comments on the public hearings being held by the U.S. House Committee on Labor concerning the coal strike. Committee's failure to ask intelligent questions; Dismissal of informed witnesses; Failure of the committee to extract the facts about the owners' drive against the union and the squabbles in the central competitive field; Proposal of miners for the permanent federal fact-finding agency; Limitations in Compulsory Information; Danger of hasty legislation without the facts.

Comments on developments in U.S. politics, economy and foreign relations. Confidence in the ability of the Genoa Conference to accomplish anything important in the way of reconstructive economic legislation; Hearing that coal miners are getting in the press and with the public opinion; Falsification in the New York papers about the death of Peter Picuro; Naval appropriations and the merchant marine policy; Imprisonment of 113 men for their expression of opinion in war time.

Presents a round up of world news and developments. Belief of French people that it would be good business to combine the cancellation of the inter-Allied debts with the reduction of the German indemnity; Criticism of the effort of the U.S. government to persuade coal operators to confer with the coal miners; Comment on the British governance of India; Refusal of the United States to do business with Russia until Russia orders her internal affairs to U.S. satisfaction; Treatment of workers in the cotton manufacturing industry of New England.

Focuses on the end of the labor dispute in the British coal industry, after a lockout of more than 12 weeks that directly affected almost a million and a quarter miners. General disposition on the part of the British labor movement to reconsider its position and to take stock of its resources; Account that a historian of the future would have of British economic history in the years following the great war; Overview of the wage question that was the center of the dispute.

Comments on developments concerning world politics. State visit of French foreign affairs official Rene Viviani to the U.S. to persuade the administration of President Warren Harding to adopt the course with respect to the new European war which the French and British governments desire; Social issues raised by the strike staged by British coal miners since the armistice; Events reflecting the state of discrimination against Negroes; Death of progressive movement leader Charles McCarthy.

Focuses on various political and socioeconomic issues worldwide. Refusal of the coal operators and the U.S. government to consider the case of the miners until the mines in operation again; Decision of the Supreme Court to convict five men in New York for spreading radical propaganda; Decision of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George to offer a share in management of the railroads to the British Railwaymen's Union; Vote of the representatives of farmers belonging to the National Grange to reject the invitation of American labor leader Samuel Gompers for a joint conference with union labor.

Focuses on the need of a national policy to alleviate the worsening working condition of coal miners in the U.S. Suggestion that trade unionism should be accepted and standards should be set by negotiation, reason and compromise; Information that Republic Steel, which forced the Memorial Day massacre, was among the first to sign the industry's far-reaching settlement with the steel workers; Criticism of the Taft-Hartley Act whose injunction provisions simply delay collective bargaining while tensions increase until the period of the injunction expires; Information that conversion of U.S. industry to oil has been accelerated by the fall in the price of fuel oil; Information that there are 8,000 operators in the coal industry which tend to increase production as prices fall.

Points out that the charge that justice is controlled in Colorado by the coal companies could have no stronger support than the court records of indictment and trial in the case of the striking miners. Coal companies actively associated with the People's cases; Move by strikers to disqualify Judge Hillyer on the ground of prejudice; Open venire method of selecting the juries; Irregularities in the trials of John Lawson and Louis Zancanelli, who have been convicted though not sentence for life at hard labor.

The business of invading the Ruhr and assuring the Western world an abundant flow of coal is not so simple as it sounds. In the first place, the Allies may find themselves in the triumphant position of Governor Henry Allen, who made it a crime to strike in Kansas and thereby drove some thousands of coal miners into a strike till then undreamed of. The Allies may occupy the Ruhr, and may proclaim that every Ruhrite shall dig coal, but they are not likely to increase thereby the enthusiasm of the individual miner for his task. In the second place, they will come face to face with the question of woprking hours.

Presents information about the agreement signed upon a soft-coal code. Right of collective bargaining given to the miners; Other rights won by the miners under the agreement; Absence of any provision in the code to enlarge the market for coal; Remedy offered by the code against higher prices; Possibility that marketing agencies may attempt to prevent overproduction and sustain prices.

Focuses on ten thousand miners' wives that marched to the State House in Springfield, Illinois, to present demands of the Women's Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners to the Governor. Resentment against the impoverishment of the workers dependent upon coal for an existence; Enlistment of coal-digger women's demands; Demonstration of women against hunger, unemployment, undernourished children who have no adequate clothes to wear to school; Repugnance against the United Mine Workers of America leadership as they betrayed the workers.