INCREASE IN SALARY FOR MR LEWIS: U.S. MINERS’ ACTION
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.
The annual conference of the United Mine Workers of America at Cincinnati, to-day voted its president, Mr John L. Lewis, a salary increase of 25.000 dollars, bringing his total salary to 50,000 dollars a year, and making Mr Lewis the second highest paid labour leader in the world. Mi’ James Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicans is the highest paid, with 54.000 dollars a year. The salaries of the two vicepresidents of the union were raised from 18,000 to 40,000 dollars a year. Executive board members will receive 1000 dollars a month. - The conference rejected a proposal that Mr Lewis be made president for elected in December should serve for four years.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1948, Page 9
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