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The article reports on the political strikes and movements of the 120,000-member United Mine Workers in the U.S. It states that the union members won over the mining labor settlements with a 50% increase in wages and benefits in three years and notes the impact of the increase in setting up new stikes by other unions with their frustration on inflation and recession and the consequences of these in the economy. It mentions that the settlement will raise the price of coal, steel, electricity, and myriad consumer products which add to the living costs at an annual rate of 12%. Moreover, it will cost companies with 1.25 billion U.S. dollars as a result of the settlement.

Focuses on major differences between the U.S. mines and mines of Great Britain as of September 07, 1974. Comparison of wages of British and American miners; Factors responsible for greater number of accidents and fatalities in the U.S. in comparison to Great Britain; Differences in methods used by both these countries to deal with the problem of technological unemployment.

Discusses the emergence of West Virginia-based reform organization Miners for Democracy and the considerable support being drawn by its reform candidates from large working mines. Threat posed by Miners for Democracy against Tony Boyle's United Mine Workers machine; Foundation of the organization after the 1969 murder of Joseph Yablonski, a union leader who campaigned against Boyle; Chance of the Miners for Democracy candidates to win the court-ordered election; Aspects of the insurgent campaign; Court decision that set aside the 1969 election of Boyle; Extraordinary acts of Boyle's union career.

Comments on several issues relevant to foreign and domestic policies in the U.S. Indications that the time of the U.S. Congress may be occupied with the problem of military reorganization and national defense; Unemployment; Casualties from mines and quarries in the U.S.

The article discusses the growth of mining company Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp. (RTZ) in Great Britain as of December 1966. The company was established by chairman and chief executive John Norman Valette Duncan. RTZ has assets of 711 million dollars and earned 27 million dollars on 325 million in sales in 1965. It relates the expansion efforts of RTZ across the world, including Australia, Canada and Rhodesia.

The article focuses on the performance of the U.S. oil sector in 1961. According to the author, the U.S. domestic oil supplies increased by more than 250,000 barrels a day in 1961. The author adds that by the end of September 1961, there were about 60 million barrels of excess oil and oil products that put pressure on U.S. prices right down to the level of the local service station.

The article examines the uranium rush in the U.S. in 1954. According to the author, hundreds of thousands of prospectors are purchasing penny uranium stocks in companies with extremely unstable resources and dubious futures. The author reports that in Salt Lake City, Utah, new issues are being floated at a rate of more than one a day, seven days a week. INSET: SWEET SUBSIDIES.

Presents information on the domestic policies of U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding. Promise made by Harding during his campaigns to select a Cabinet from those whom he had described in the campaign as the best minds; Proposal of Harding to reduce the wages during railroad labor dispute; Plans of Harding for reorganization of the administrative structure of the government; Lack of teamwork in the Cabinet of Harding in dealing with the industrial problems; Criticism of the approach of Harding in dealing with the miners strike.

Provides some insights into world politics, foreign relations and industries compiled as of March 1922. Developments in politics in the U.S.; Sales tax policies in the U.S.; Diplomacy after the war and the events for the Genoa Conference in Italy; Proposals for the treatment of and relations with Russia; Issues pertaining to the working conditions and treatment of coal miners in the U.S.

This article focuses on the prevailing political conditions in the U.S. and around the world. A shortage in coal has resulted in threats of strike in the U.S. Some newspapers are suggesting a boycott of anthracite coal to teach the industry a lesson and others are urging the President of the U.S. to take drastic measures, to seize the mines, to prohibit a strike. The Federal Coal Commission at the eleventh hour is calling operators and miners into conference again, but there is little hope of more than a patched-up peace.

This article presents brief information on economic and social conditions of several nations. The British coal crisis seems at this writing likely to terminate in a compromise granting the miners an immediate increase but making future wages partially dependent upon output. The fundamental questions of nationalization and control are left untouched. The early reports of college and university enrolment in the U.S., indicate that 1920-21 is to see an even larger number of students than 1919-20 and that the remarkable increase in attendance which has been going on for the past five or six years is still unchecked. Prices are coming down; the newspapers say so, and the banks say it, so it must be true; but the poor consumer, sadly totaling up his weekly milk and egg and potato and meat bill, learns little of the bruited drop except what lie reads in the papers.

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 focuses on the life of the miners in the Bochum, Germany. The author says that the miners express their resentment at having to live a communal and shoddy life, with no privacy, no comfort, no place to have fun, nothing to fill their leisure time. Some of the miners express their feelings for their government. Some of them dislike the communist party, a political party workers. According to the author Employment in the Rurh is high and people in Bochum are therefore better off than many parts of West Germany.

The article provides information about several publications related to different topics as mining, metallurgy, arts and Florentine antiquities. An index catalogue of books and papers on mining, metallurgy and manufacturers is published by H.T. Folkard. To students of arts, Dr. Walter Lippmann, the director of the Berlin Cabinet of Engravings, presents a valuable handbook on Copper-plate Engraving. The article mentions another books also as "Echoes of Old Florence," by Leader Scott, which is based on Florentine antiquities and "Tennyson: Poet, Philosopher, Idealist," by J. Cuming Walter.

The article focuses on the challenges of William Henry Harrison Cranmer, president of lead and zinc producer New Park Mining Co., in running the mine business. It mentions the new fields explored by Cranmer including the oil, copper and stone building, and New Park's affiliated companies which include zinc company East Utah Mining Co. and oil producer Oil Inc. It presents a brief profile of Cranmer, and discusses his role in increasing the company's holdings and making it a profitable business.

The article reports on the forthcoming completion of the mining project of Iron Ore Co. (IOC) of Canada in Labrador-Quebec. It cites the recent worth of the project which already total to 250 million dollars due to high material costs. It examines the status of the project which is contracted by four companies including Cartier, McNamara, Mannix, and Morrison-Knudson (CMMK). Furthermore, it mentions how the IOC can realize the full economic benefits of Labrador-Quebec.

The article offers information on the history of the labor union, United Mine Workers (UMW). It states that establishment of UMW was considered as a principal step because the union's founders identified economic and organizational issues associated to the coal mining industry. It says that the patron saint of UMW, John Mitchell was elected as the national president of the union in 1899. It adds that John L. Lewis took over as the president of the union with Philip Murray as his vice-president.

The article offers information on Kennecott Copper Corp. Bingham mine in Utah. It states that Bingham mine is a 16 million dollars electrolytic refinery that converts copper from the mine into pure ingot. It states that pre-refinery work was outsourced to American Smelting and Refining Co. by Kennecott Copper Corp. Photographs of the mine and the refining process, are also presented in the article.

The article presents information on various socio-political developments related to the U.S. There was a great meeting in the subject of political reform held in New York City last week, of a kind that will probably be by no means uncommon hereafter in various other cities and States, for the evils which it took into consideration are unhappily no longer confined to New York. In another development, when, after a thirty days' strike, commencing in December last, the working miners of the anthracite cozl regions in Pennsylvania offered to resume, the mine-owners and operators, who were only too anxious to resume, found themselves unexpectedly prevented from sending their coal to market by the railroad companies, who had suddenly raised their freights to nearly three times their former figure.

The article focuses on issues related to the operations and performance of mining company Kennecott Copper. It offers a background on the company's western mining operations in 1971 including its production of copper, bituminous coal and other minerals such as lead, zinc and titanium. It discusses the confiscation of Kennecott Copper's mining properties in Chile and impact on the overall performance of the company.

The article presents interviews with Ian McGregor, chairman of mining company American Metal Climax (Amax), and Orlando Letelier, Chilean ambassador to the U.S. When asked about what mining companies are doing with expropriation, McGregor shares that they are pulling back to politically safer ground. Ambassador Letelier explains that compensation for the three U.S. companies, based on the constitutional amendment, could be fixed based on original cost, less amortization and economic factors.

The article discusses the latest developments in the international business industry as of July 1950. It particularly examines the potential investment opportunities around the world, specifically in the trading of farm products, minerals and manufactures. It cites as example the situation in the 1870s, in which Great Britain and France have invested a major part of their savings to help in the development of several countries like the U.S., Argentina and Russia. It also examines the impact of population growth in investment opportunities in such regions as Western Europe, North America and Latin America.

The article reports on how the launch of an upgraded iron ore called a pellet boost the mining business in the U.S. It mentions that the pellet becomes the object of some 1.5 billion dollars in worldwide investment from 1955-1965. It is expected that the industry will run up a 20-year investment bill of about 4.5 billion dollars for palletizing. Also, the article mentions the character of iron mining that has been changed by the introduction of the ball.

The article focuses on the mining empire founded by French Canadian Pierre Beauchemin together with his family in Quebec. It outlines the companies owned by the Beauchemin family which include Sullivan Consolidated Mines Ltd., Quebec Copper Corp. Ltd. and Quebec Lithium Corp. It highlights the different sectors of the mineral industry covered by the business enterprise including copper, lithium and gold industries.

The article reports on the move of a U.S.-owned mining company of making use of the troubled Mediterranean Islands that produces a lot of cold cash. It discusses the success of the mining and prospecting operation by Cyprus Mines Corp. in that island which is considered to be a hot spot. Also talked about is how the company's president, Henry T. Mudd, led the mining operation despite various attacks.

The article presents information on the economic development in Khabarovsk Territory, Soviet Union. Reportedly, the industrial output in the region has increased 73 times in recent years and it now has 240 towns as compared to only ten before the Bolshevik Revolution. It sates that several industries have developed in the region, including the timber industry, mining industries, and the machinery industry.

The article reports on the threat for French President Charles de Gaulle to draft the striking miners and unite French unions. De Gaulle serves notice that the solutions will exclude increases higher than the economic plan of the nation. It notes the little time he spent in organizing its unproductive work in dues-payers. He also prefers to explain his position in Marxist or other ideological terms.

The article focuses on economic issues in West Virginia. It states that mine employment in West Virginia declined to 40,000 during the period of economic recession from 1958 to 1959 and despite the 4.4% increase of coal output in February 1960, employment lags behind by 3.1%. It mentions that other industries of the state are starting to adopt automation such as the case of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s plant in Belle wherein hundreds of its workers were laid off as part of its modernization.

Focuses on the impact of the change in the conceptual framework of the earth which is based on the theory of plate tectonics for the mineral industries. Implications of the revised global tectonics for mineral resources; Movement of continents and ocean basins based on the changed conceptual framework of the earth; Sources of metallic sulfide deposits.

The article discusses methods of recovering oil out of rock after the decline of natural pressure. There were several incentives to look for ways to extract more oil. The basic possibilities in such recovery are mining, squeezing, pushing and sucking. Mining is physically removing the oil-bearing rock from its position. Squeezing is forcing the particles of oil-bearing rock closer together and pressing out the oil.

The article discusses some of the difficulties faced by the miners. The U.S. is still using the same amount of coal, but only a third as many miners. The operators of a continuous miner dig and load three tons a minute. The southern mines weren't really organized until the war came along to make price-cutting unnecessary for anybody. The article presents a model of the continuous miner, who takes about five hours to unload and set up and the boss wanted his trucks back as fast as he could get them.

The article discusses the non-military uses of nuclear explosives. Plowshare program of the Atomic Energy Commission was developed to explore the technical and economic feasibility of using nuclear explosives for industrial applications like in mining and heavy construction. A review of the reconstructed history of the Rainier explosion as an example of underground nuclear explosion is presented.

This article presents information regarding political developments around the world. Not the least startling aspect of the "memorial" decreed by John L. Lewis and now concluded was the unanimity with which 425,000 miners downed their picks and resigned themselves to two weeks without pay. Obviously they expected their leader to deliver, as he almost always has done in the past. Almost as though designed to show the world that the South is not all fustian and filibuster comes the appointment of Frank P. Graham to the U.S. Senate. Californians seem to be suffering at the moment, from a bad case of jitters. Two scheduled appearances of Carey McWilliams at sessions of the teachers' institute in Riverside were recently canceled in response to a protest from Riverside Post No. 79 of the American Legion.

A recent headline took old-timers in the labor movement back to the exciting days of 1921-22, when American coal diggers were seeking some other way out of their plight than the usual devastating strike. John Brophy, then president of District 2 of the United Mine Workers of America, with headquarters at Cleatheld, Pennsylvania, was head of the Nationalization Committee created by the miners' union at its 1921 convention. For years it had been routine at conventions for miners to pass a resolution in favor of the nationalization of the coal mines of the country.

The article focuses on the discovery of various minerals in Siberia in Soviet Union. It states that Siberia has the richest oil and gas reserved that will make the Soviet Union of the 21st century the wealthiest nation on earth. It indicates that Siberia has the largest deposits of iron ore and coal in the world. It highlights the greatest construction effort of Soviets to exploit the newly discovered treasure of Siberia. It notes that the Siberian development in the five-year plan from 1971-1975 will cost 100 billion dollars.

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.

Presents an account of a meetings undertaken by the writers' committee to decide about the plan of procedure to deal with the plight of miners in the county with various authorities in the county. Details of the emergence of coal mines in Harlan County, Kentucky; Discussion on the conditions of the people in the county; Overview of happenings at a meeting in the Baptist Church.

Presents information on natural beauty. Information on the beauty of canyons; Comments on the destruction of civilization at Bellamy canyon; Aspects of gold boom in Bellamy; Loss of capital invested in the mines of Bellamy; Death of cattle after drinking cyanide poisoned water drained from the mines; Presence of useless industrial equipment in the Bellamy canyon; Description of the postmaster in Bellamy; Failure of a lumber mill which was set up near Bellamy canyon; Destruction of the beauty of the forest by lumber trade, mining and cattle grazing.

The author offers his opinion on several issues in the business sector in the U.S. in 1928. He talks about the business conditions of industries like the lumber industry, salmon fishing industry and mining industry, as well as the complain about overproduction on the farm, in the factory, and from oil fields. He also discusses the warning issued by the Federal Reserve on Wall Street and the prediction of expansion of business by James Simpson of department store Marshall Field & Co.

This section offers news briefs on business and economic issues in the U.S. as of September 1925. A certainty on the cessation of mining in the Pennsylvania hard coal fields is reported. Chicago and Northwestern Railway vice president A. C. Johnson has announced that a reduction of six percent in the freight rate advances sought by Western railroads has been made by officials of the roads. A downward trend of money in the New York market has been reported.

The article presents business and economic updates from the U.S. as of August 15, 1925. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, has alleged that the sub-committee of mine operators who are charged to consult with miners on issues of wages and productivity, has no real power. Coal broke railroad car loadings in the week of ending July 28. A significant break in crude rubber price was observed despite inaction from the British government.

The article discusses the demand and supply of natural resources in the U.S. The Geological Survey has reported potential supply of natural resources that can able to meet the demand for various mineral commodities until the end of the century. However, there are various factors that need to consider in the conversion of these resources into reserves such as environmental concerns, price, and technology. The mining industry is also exploring the ocean floor for possible supply of resources in addition to joint venture and building of processing plants.