STRIKE CALLED OFF
PRESIDENT INTERVENES
WASHINGTON, June 30.
At the request of President Roosevelt, Mr. J. L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, an Saturday night called off the strike of soft coal workers in the Appalachian district. Mr. Lewis agreed with the employers' spokesman to Continue mine operations under the present wage and hour scales to July 31. if the operators agreed. The spokesman predicted that the operators would accept.
The miners arc asking lor a five-hour reduction to. a 30-hour week, and a 10 per cent, pay increase.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 9
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