U.S. COAL STRIKE SPREADS
OWNERS’ ULTIMATUM TO MR LEWIS (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Mar. 16. The strike far pension right* spread io 390.000 of the 400,000 softcoal miners in the United States to-day, and brought a threat of court action from the mine owners. The employers rave the United Mineworkers’ president (Mr John L. Lewis) three days to call off the strike and Join them in petitioning the Federal District Court for the appointment of an arbitrator. The owners contended that the union wae violating the TaftHartley Labour Act. Coal production decreased by 2,000,000 tons to-day.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25446, 18 March 1948, Page 5
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