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PRESIDENT'S DEMAND

NO REPLY BY UNION YET

(Rec. 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, April 30.

The President's secretary, Mr. Early, stated in Washington that Mr. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, had not yet replied to Mr. Roosevelt's demand that the soft-coal miners should end the strike and resume production. Meanwhile, Mr. Lewis has met the union's policy committee in New York. The soft-coal minei-s' contract with the mine owners expires at midnight, as does a similar contract between the anthracite miners and the operators. Both soft- and hard-coal miners are demanding a wage increase of two dollars a day. Mr. Lewis has renewed the demand for continued negotiations •through collective bargaining, but has made no direct threat of a coal-miners' strike tomorrow. —8.0. W.

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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5

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PRESIDENT'S DEMAND Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5

PRESIDENT'S DEMAND Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5