STRIKE OF COAL MINERS IN PENNSYLVANIA
NEW YORK, March 15. Dozens of mines in the rich Pennsylvania field were closed today when the miners struck to support the demand by the United Mineworkers-’ president, Mr John L. Lewis, for a miners’ pension of 100 dollars a month. Dy the middle of the morning more than one-third of the nation’s 400,000 soft- coal miners had walked out. The walk-outs are spreading quickly and they threaten to close all the soft coal mines within a day or so. It was reported in Washington that the Government was preparing to act if a general stoppage was threatened. Mr Lewis demanded pensions on a basis of 100 dollars monthly for every miner aged 60 with 20 years’ experience. He claimed that the pensions should be paid out of the Health and Welfare Fund, established in 1946, on the basis of a 5 cents a ton royalty, under an agreement reached when the Government controlled the mines. When the United Mineworkers and the operators signed a contract in .1947 the royalty was increased to 10 cents a ton. Unofficially, it is estimated that the royalties now total 45,000,000 dollars.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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