"To hell with the operators! We're not going back to work until we get our rights! To hell with 'em!"
Such was the greeting Edward Francis McGrady, NRA deputy administrator for labor, got one morning last week as a car whizzed him down Uniontown, Pa.'s Main Street to Fraternal Hall between noisy ranks of striking coal miners. He had just flown in from Washington as President Roosevelt's personal emissary in an attempt to persuade balky United Mine Workers to live up to the strike truce their national leaders had signed (TIME, Aug. 14). At...
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