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Author(s): Morrow, Elise
Source:
Saturday Evening Post. 11/17/1945, Vol. 218 Issue 20, p11-107. 5p.
Subject Terms:
*FREIGHT & freightage rates; *CONSUMER price indexes; *BUSINESS negotiation; *NEWSPAPERS; *RESIGNATION of employees; *ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.

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- Subject Terms:
  UNITED States
- Subject Terms:
  ADAMS, Kinlock Christy
- Abstract:
  The article profiles Kinlock Christy Adams, spokesman, adviser and catalyst of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) in the U.S. He is responsible for assembling several figures in coal-contract negotiations such as freight rates and cost-of-living indices. After graduation in high school he worked in Memphis, Tennessee as a newspaper copy boy. He decided to resign at UMW in 1917.