Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, Affiliated Companies and Related Matters: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. and Pennsylvania Railroad Co. relations with Coal Mining IndustryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - Holding companies |
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advised anthracite August bill bituminous coal C. D. YOUNG Cabin Creek Carbon Fuel Company Charleston Chief Special Agent coal fields coal industry coal mines Coal Operators Association Coal River Coalburg Committee on Interstate cost Creek Coal Company D. C. KENNEDY DEAR SIR district EXHIBIT FRANCIS Frank Keeney Fuel Mine Operations going H. C. PEARCE Huntington Indiana interest Interstate Commerce Island Creek Coal July Kanawha Coal Operators Kanawha Valley labor lessee lessor letter in file Logan County LOGSDON matter membership memorandum in file National Coal Association Nelsonville non-union O.-Chief Special Agent-Richmond O.-Harahan Ohio organization Pennsylvania Railroad Company Personal Philadelphia picketing Pittsburgh Coal Company present production Purchasing Agent R. O. MITCHELL Railway Company RICHMOND Senior Vice President Signed trouble truly Typewritten United Mine Workers Vice President Files-Richmond Vice-President W. J. HARAHAN W. W. ATTERBURY wage scale WELSH West Virginia Whitesville Workers of America
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Page 12434 - Said Commissioners shall not engage in any other business, vocation, or employment. No vacancy in the Commission shall impair the right of the remaining Commissioners to exercise all the powers of the Commission.
Page 12419 - Every person who, having been summoned as a witness by authority of said committee or any subcommittee thereof, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the investigation heretofore authorized, shall be held to the penalties provided by section 102 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
Page 12419 - Claimant without deduction; and at such Time or Times, and at such Place or Places, as shall...
Page 12419 - Congress, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the question under inquiry, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve months.
Page 12366 - Thus the position of the miners in company-owned houses is anomalous. They are not tenants and have no more rights than a domestic servant who occupies a room in the household of the owner. The documents which pass for leases often give the company complete control over the social life of the families who live in the houses owned by the company.
Page 12434 - No person in the employ of or holding any official relation to any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act, or owning stock or bonds thereof, or who is in any manner pecuniarily interested therein, shall enter upon the duties of or hold such office. Said Commissioners shall not engage in any other business, vocation or employment.
Page 12429 - ... and if and when said relation of employer and employee, at any time and under any circumstances, terminates, the employee agrees that he will not then or thereafter, in any manner molest, annoy, or interfere with the business, customers, or employees of the employer, and will not aid or encourage anyone else in so doing.
Page 12445 - ... industry toward creation of voluntary machinery by which greater assurance can be given to the public of peaceful adjustment of wage difficulties such as has been accomplished in the anthracite industry. This bituminous industry is one of primary necessity and bears a great responsibility to the Nation for continuity of supplies. As the wage agreements in the unionized section of the industry expire on April 1 next, and as conflicts may result which may imperil public interest, and have for many...
Page 12444 - I do not favor government ownership or operation of coal mines. The thing is for action under private ownership that will secure greater continuity of production and greater public protection.
Page 12445 - It has been the subject of repeated investigation and reiterated recommendation. Yet the industry seems never to have accepted modern methods of adjusting differences between employers and employees. The industry could serve the public much better and become subject to a much more effective method of control if regional consolidations and more freedom in the formation of marketing associations, under the supervision of the Department of Commerce, were permitted. At the present time the national government...