U.S. COAL STRIKE SPREADS
Most Miners May Stop Work MR TRUMAN MAY INTERVENE
(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 6. The five weeks’ strike by nearly 100,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America spread to-day, when overnight shifts failed to report for work.
Unconfirmed reports from coalfield areas said that most of the 400,000 softcoal miners might be idle by nightfall.
Washington reports quote White House sources as having said last night that President Truman would step into the dispute to-day by declaring a national emergency ana appointing a factfinding board to investigate under the S revisions of the Taft-Hartley Labour elations Act unless the president of the United Mine Workers (Mr John L. Lewis) to-day ordered the men to return to work.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26031, 7 February 1950, Page 5
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