GOAL STRIKE IN U.S.

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23317, 1 May 1941, Page 8

GOAL STRIKE IN U.S.

* WORK TO RESUME ROOSEVELT INTERVENES SUCCESSFULLY (Received April 30, 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 29. The immediate resumption of coal production will follow Mr Roosevelt’s successful intervention in a dispute which baffled the Defence Mediation Board and all other attempts at a settlement. Mr Roosevelt’s immense influence, it is admitted on all sides, has averted an industrial catastrophe, The coal stoppage, which began on March 31, affected 300,000 miners. Steel, transportation. and other defence industries, which had begun to feel the pinch of the coal shortage, will now receive coal within a few days. The southern soft coal operators agreed to an increase in wages of a dollar a day in accordance with Mr Roosevelt’s suggestion that the remaining differences, should be negotiated while production proceeds. The Secretary ’of Commerce (Mr Jesse Jones) to-day paid a warm tribute to southern mine owners. “I have never met a finer set of men than the southern operators," he said. He added that while many matters vital to their existence were involved they had unselfishly sacrificed these ■ to follow', the President’s lead. Mr John L. Lewis, president of the United States Coal Workers of America, • after a conference with southern operators, announced that the southern soft coal mines would not reopen on May 1 as had been scheduled, but the northern mines. would. CHINA AND U.S. COOPERATION PROSPECTS NEW FOREIGN MINISTER’S ‘STATEMENT WASHINGTON, April 29. Dr. Quo Tai-chi, .the new Foreign Minister in. China, sa'd tb-day, after conferences with Mr Roosevelt and Mr Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, that he is greatly encouraged about the prospects of American co- ■ operation with China. The Chinese Ambassador in the United States (Dr. Hu Shih) said that materials are going from the United States to • China in ever-increasing amounts. Dr. Quo described his conversation with Mr Hull as very satisfactory. He predicted that Britain now can stave off any invasion attempt, and that the crucial struggle* of the European war will be the battle of the Atlantic. . .CO-OPERATION IN RESEARCH BRITAIN AND U.S. (8.0. W.) :' RUGBY, April 29. Repbfing to a question in -the, House of-Commons- Mr R. 'HA- - Butler; r the Foreign 'Under-Secretary, stated that aft#;;' oansultatlon , with;' appropriate iti ;the; United ■ States? the 'Government had drtfwn upa ’ reiojr ibOetf for' cooperation in scientific matters, with the United States. • Dr. C. G; Darwin, Director of the national Physical Laboratory, had been sent as director of a central scientific office working under the direction of the British Supply Council in North America. Dt- Darwin will collaborate with United 'States research bodies and act as a channel for' the exchange, with appropriate.' authorities,, of technical and scientific infdrtnatlon.He will also generally- co,-ocdihatV! scientific and technical inquiries 'to and from the United States authorities. UNITED STATES STEEL •CORPORATION , HIGH INCOME IN FIRST QUARTER OF YEAR ' NEW YORK, April 29. Net jncome’of the United States Steel Corporation in the first . quarter 'Of • 1941 was 36,559,000 dollars, .the highest for Any quarter since. 1929 in spite of record, taxes. ; • Th&dlants were operating at an alltime high record level, 50 per cent, of production going, to the defence programme. COLONEL LINDBERGH BAN SOUGHT ON WRITINGS BRANTFORD. (Ontario), April 29. AIL Colonel Lindbergh’s writings ;will be removed from the public library and , school, libraries if;the action taken by ’ ’ the City Council last,night is approved ' by the Library- Board . and the Board of Education. .. The council passed a resolution saying -that the-countil read with- resentment Colonel Lindbergh’s statements against for: which Britain- was fighting.■ ■ ■ The United; States War, Department announced to-day .that Colonel Lind-j bergh’s resignation. as . a Reserve Air Corps officer’ has been accepted. .