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Focuses on Pennsylvania coal miner Randy Fogle, who escaped a flooded mine with his crew. Fogle's decision to return to the mine, Quecreek No. 1; Details of the flooding; Comments of Fogle; Solidarity of his crew; Fogle's refusal to join a civil lawsuit against Quecreek's operator, Black Wolf Coal Company; Reasons for going back into the mine, including Fogle's love of coal mining.

The article presents the author's comments on an increasing number of coal-miners in the U.S. Applachian region, dying of the black lung disease. The author points out how President Donald Trump had campaigned heavily on promises to revive the dying coal industry of the country and promised federally backed health care for coal miners. The author notes that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) confirmed a resurgence of black lung disease, in central Appalachia.

Discusses the strikes staged by the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association and the United Mine Workers of America in 1978. Labor relations of coal miners with their employers; Competition within the industry from other sources of fuel; Mine mechanization; Labor stability and operator-oriented contracts.

Discusses the tentative agreement reached by the United Mine Workers of America and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association in February, 1978. Reaction of the miners to the proposed labor contract; Background on the labor dispute between the union and the operators' association; Outline of the demands of the miners.

Presents discussion on the election of union leader of coal miners in the U.S. Preference by coal miners to elect a leader from Arnold Miller, West Virginian who headed Miners for Democracy; Apprehension of Miller towards the conspiracy among his remaining staffs to go against him; Existence of various difficulties among coal miners.

Discusses about internal policies of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). Organizational structure of UMWA; Concerns of UMWA for coal miners; Existence of various difficulties in of UMWA; Power struggle of UMWA.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Focuses on political developments in the world, with emphasis on social and political events in the U.S. Information on the civil war that has broken in three U.S. states between miners and the mercenaries of the coal barons who for years have failed to save the disorganized industry themselves and have stood in the way of all proposals to help it made by others; Reason which has restrained West Virginia miners from resorting to mass violence; Reference to the conflict between miners and mine guards in Kentucky; Decrease of prices in the wheat market; Details about the take over of weak banks by strong ones in Chicago, Illinois; Establishment of an independent government in Canton, China by a group whose political outlook is about that of the Nanking regime itself; Basis on which students will be admitted to the Bennington College in Vermont; Information on an international conference on control of the drug traffic which is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Coal Mine Health and Safety. Act of 1969 in the U.S. was in tended to make coal mining an occupation safe enough to be undertaken, and to compensate miners already disabled by their work. On November 21 about 500 miners gathered for a hearing in Clay County, Kentucky, to listen to testimony and express their discontent over the administration of the law. One of its chief provisions is the relief of miners who have suffered respiratory impairment known as black lung, front breathing the dust-laden air of deep-pit coal mines; but as the hearing progressed it seemed that it was easier to get the disease than get compensation for it.