U.S.A. MINE WORKERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1943, Page 5

U.S.A. MINE WORKERS

RETURN TO FEDERATION

LEWIS’S SURPRISE MOVE

WASHINGTON, May 20.

Mr. John L. Lewis, president' of the United Mine Workers of America, today led his union back to the American Federation of Labour, which he tore asunder eight years ago, during Labour’s great, schism. The president of the American Federation of Labour (Mr. William Green) revealed that the mine workers had applied for reaffiliation, which was being considered “in an orderly and sympathetic manner.” The Washington correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that reaffiliation is a foregone conclusion. Mr. Lewis took the United Mme Workers away from the Federation after its 1935 convention, and organised the Congress of Industrial Organisations, from which he withdrew the miners last October after a quarrel with the president of the Congress (Mr. Philip Murray). The Federation s Council has welcomed the application and has interpreted the return of the miners as “making for unity and solidarity within the ranks of Labour.’/ The 8.8. C. correspondent in Washington says that the application by the United Mine Workers has come as a complete surprise. It is not certain that the miners will be admitted. The correspondent adds that the Federation of Labour has set up a committee to consider the application.

DEFENCE EXPENDITURE

WASHINGTON, May 20. Mr Roosevelt asked Congress to make 7,898,499 dollars available lor the Armv in the fiscal year, stalling on July 1. The total is six thousand million dollars more than, the Budget estimate last January. With the pending twenty-nine thousand million dollars for the Navy bill, the total war services budget will exceed one hundred thousand million dollars. Secretary Early said that the six thousand million dollars increase in. the Army budget was chiefly du? to aircraft construction.

DUKE OF WINDSOR.

RUGBY, May 18.

Mr. Roosevelt revealed to-day that Mr. Churchill had conferred with the Duke of Windsor, who is visiting Washington. According to an agency message, Mr. Churchill lunched at the White House, where the Duke talked for an hour with the President. The President said they had chiefly discussed the question of thousands of farm workers being brought to the United. States from the Bahamas and Jamaica. Mr Roosevelt added that his conferences with Mr. Churchill were not finished and were going along very satisfactorily.

TRENCH MOUTH

NEW YORK, May 19. A new method of treating Vincent’s Infection (trench mouth), described as more certain and more eflicient than the older methods, has been reported to the Georgia Dental Association. The new method involves the use of three tablets of nicotinamide every four waking hours for four days, and after that smaller doses It is claimed that acute infections are usually cured in six days.

TAXATION PAYMENT

WASHINGTON, May 18.

Fearful of the threatened Presidential veto, the House rejected the pay-as-you-go tax plan by 202 votes to 194. The House twice previously rejected the measure which has Senatorial approval. The House Committee now receives the plan in an effort lo compromise on differences with tne Senate.

FLOOD DAMAGE

NEW YORK, May 19.

Floods are spreading over widelyscattered areas in Indiana and are driving hundreds of families from their homes. Engineers are concerned at the prospect of the Noblesville dam breaking, as it would loose a mighty .volume of water down the White River Valley towards Indianopolis.