PRESIDENT ON MR. LEWIS
NEW YORK, November 19,
President Roosevelt' told the Press in Washington that he had nothing to say about the coal strike except that he considered the argument of the president of the United Mine Workers, Mr. John L. Lewis, that failure to obtain a union shop contract with the company mines would jeopardise union shop agreements already concluded with the rest of the mines was invalid.
The Carnegie Illinois Steel Company announced in Pittsburgh that it expects to be forced to cease the operation of six blast furnaces on Thursday due to the-lack of coal.
The State police have moved into the Gary mine to preserve order.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1941, Page 8
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