COAL MINERS OUT
Dispute On Hours And Wages (Received May 18, 11. p.m.i NEW YORK, May 18.
The president of'the United Mine Workers, Me J. L. Lewis has instructed 100,000 hardcoal miners to cease work at. midnight as a result, of the negotiators failing to draft a satisfactory wages 'and hours' contract. Meanwhile the negotiations of 325,000 softcoal miners are similarly at. a deadlock and a stoppage is threatened unless an agreement is reached by May 21.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 198, 19 May 1941, Page 8
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77COAL MINERS OUT Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 198, 19 May 1941, Page 8
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