COLLIERY STRIKE IN U.S.
91,000 Miners Fail To Resume Work MOST MAJOR PITS CLOSED
Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. ii p. m .) NEW YORK, Jan. 30. More than 91,000 coalminers to-day refused to return to work in soft coalmines. Some observers had expected the strikers to go back to the mines after Mr John L. Lewis' president of the United Mine Workers, had agreed to resume contract negotiations with the mine-owners.
The strikers have closed all the major pits in Western Pennsylvania and north-west Virginia. A few mines are open in Ohio. All steel company mines are idle in Alabama.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 5
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