AMERICAN MINERS
EFFORT TO AVERT STRIKE Eec. 10 a.m. NEW YOicK, Oct. 31. In the eleventh hour of an effort to avert another paralysing coal strike, the "War Labour Board notified the miners that it was willing to meet Mr. John L. Lewis's criticism of the board's contract by inserting a clause guaranteeing the miners against loss under the new' wage structure.
This offer was suggested by President Roosevelt. The board announced that it was ready to ban some street lighting and electric advertising and perhaps divert some coal stocks from public utilities and industries to war plants. The latest estimates state that 115,000 soft coal miners are an strike.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1943, Page 5
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