AMERICAN MINERS

Evening Star, Issue 22069, 1 July 1935, Page 9

AMERICAN MINERS

SOFT GOAL INDUSTRY A CALL TO STRIKE Press Association—By Telegraph—^Copyright WASHINGTON, June 29. Following a fortnight’s futile negotiations, telegraphic instructions were sent out from the headquarters of the United Mine Workers to-day ordering all miners in the soft coal industry to strike at midnight on Sunday'. It is estimated that 450,000 will be affected by the strike call. The unionists are attempting to effect a new contract with the operators embodying most of the provisions of the N.R.A., but the owners have refused to yield on the question of the open shop. The owners estimate that they have a 60-day supply of coal and they do not believe that the strike will seriously tie up the industry. A later message from Washington, says that at the request _of President Roosevelt Mr J. L. Lewis, the president of the United Mine Workers, on Saturday night called off the strike. ot soft coal workers in the Appalachian district, which was scheduled for Mon? day. 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 acc.ept. The miners are asking for a five-hour reduction to a 30-hour week and a 10 per cent, pay increase.