[PRCo] Re: West Penn Destination Sign Photo

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 If memory serves me correctly, the Wagner Act of 1935 outlawed yellow dog contracts, which were company agreements with employees prohibiting membership in a labor union.

Ed

  
---- "Harold G." <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net> wrote: 
> Greetings   Re Yellow dod.   Was there a use of this
> word to cover labor contracts and scab employees?
> 
> I remember something like it.
> 
> Harold Geissenheimer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: robert netzlof <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:12 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: West Penn Destination Sign Photo
> 
> 
> >--- Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ...The term must now be
> >> so obsolete that the only reference in my newer dictionary is to a
> >> football term.  For those too young to understand, I believe
> >> red dog was the product of burning coal in very confined
> >> spaces, such as a mine fire or a mine tailings or
> >> culm bank fire.
> >
> >Well now, the term "culm bank" wasn't used much in Western PA. In any
> >event, it's not so much "...burning coal in very confined spaces..."
> >as it was "burning coal which had very high ash content", or perhaps
> >"burning shale which had a high carbon content".
> >
> >But broadly speaking, you're right. The typical mine dump would catch
> >fire when spontaneous combustion set it in. When it had burned out,
> >one could dig down a foot or less and find the rather bright red
> >stony material. The red was due to thoroughly oxidized iron.
> >
> >> A lot of roads in Western Pennsylvania were paved with it....
> >>  It was apparently durable, readily available, and cheap.
> >
> >But now banned for that use, as rain tends to leach acids out of the
> >material.
> >
> >There is a related term, "yellow dog", heard much less often. That
> >refers to the yellow solids which precipitate out of acid mine waters
> >as they are oxidized by exposure to the atmosphere. I've seen streams
> >in which yellow dog had built up to the point that the stream was
> >diverted out of its channel, but that concentration is rare. I'm not
> >sure of the chemistry involved.
> >
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> >Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
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