CONTRACT FOR U.S. MINERS
Signature By Union And Owners SETTLEMENT OF STRIKE (New Zealand Press Association) WASHINGTON, March 5. The United Mine Workers of America and the soft coalmine owners have signed a new contract, and have thus ended the coal strike. The contract will remain in force until 1952. The president of the United Mine Workers (Mr John L. Lewis) has ordered the strikers to resume work. The new contract will give the miners a wage increase of 70 cents a day. Payments to the union’s welfare and retirement funds will be increased from 20 cents to 30 cents for each ton of coal mined’. The owners’ representatives said that they were sure most of the 370,000 strikers would return to work to-morrow. The miners have been on strike since February 6. They defied a resumption order issued by a Federal Court on February 11.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26055, 7 March 1950, Page 5
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