Conditions in the Coal Fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 105, a Resolution to Investigate Conditions in the Coal Fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - Coal miners |
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... things of which they complain so that we may view and , as far as possible , understand their standpoint , just as we will do when we visit mines with you , to the end that we may be able to carry out the instructions of the full ...
... things of which they complain so that we may view and , as far as possible , understand their standpoint , just as we will do when we visit mines with you , to the end that we may be able to carry out the instructions of the full ...
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... thing . Senator WHEELER . Why , you gentlemen would be in the position of placing us in a most embarrassing position , if we were to carry out your request . Mr. BAKER . And that is just what we do not wish to do . Mr. MORROW . Oh , no ...
... thing . Senator WHEELER . Why , you gentlemen would be in the position of placing us in a most embarrassing position , if we were to carry out your request . Mr. BAKER . And that is just what we do not wish to do . Mr. MORROW . Oh , no ...
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... thing with the representatives of the United Mine Workers , and we have not time on this trip for anything of that kind . Mr. MORROW . Perhaps you would be criticized . Senator GOODING . Oh , well , we would not worry about that , but ...
... thing with the representatives of the United Mine Workers , and we have not time on this trip for anything of that kind . Mr. MORROW . Perhaps you would be criticized . Senator GOODING . Oh , well , we would not worry about that , but ...
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... thing like this . Senator WAGNER . Won't there be of necessity a moral breakdown if this continues ? Reverend FEHRENBACH . We would expect that eventually , with- out doubt . Reverend GLENNON . And that opens the door to your I. W. W's ...
... thing like this . Senator WAGNER . Won't there be of necessity a moral breakdown if this continues ? Reverend FEHRENBACH . We would expect that eventually , with- out doubt . Reverend GLENNON . And that opens the door to your I. W. W's ...
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... thing I want to say is that I have been on the picket line ever since this trouble started , beginning long before the strike was inaugurated , and then on ever since the Pittsburgh Coal Co. started scabbing this mine a year ago last ...
... thing I want to say is that I have been on the picket line ever since this trouble started , beginning long before the strike was inaugurated , and then on ever since the Pittsburgh Coal Co. started scabbing this mine a year ago last ...
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Page 593 - UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 o'clock am, pursuant to adjournment on yesterday, in room 212, Senate Office Building, Senator James E.
Page 777 - Hartley (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The Chair would like to make a brief statement.
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