MINERS ORDERED BACK

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22619, 23 April 1948, Page 5

MINERS ORDERED BACK

INJUNCTION ISSUED (11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 22. Judge Goldsmith yesterday issued an injunction ordering the United Mine Workers Union to end the soft-coal strike. The injunction replaces a temporary restraining order which Mr. Lewis and the United Mine Workers ignored, incurring a conviction for contempt with fines totalling 1,420,000 dollars. Another development of the coal dispute was an application by Mr. Ezra van Horn, the employers’ representative on the miners’ Pension Fund Board, who asked the Federal Court for an injuction to block any payments under the pensions settlement board. Mr. van Horn’s application declared that the pensions settlement was unsound and illegal. The president of the United Mine Workers’ Union Mr. John L. Lewis, has personally appealed to the miners to return to work. The request was contained in a telegram to district presidents in which Mr. Lewis also stated he was preparing papers for an appeal against his conviction and fine for contempt of court. The district leaders said they were notifying the miners of Mr. Lewis’ request as fast as possible. A United Press survey yesterday afternoon showed over 260,000 of the union’s 400,000 members are refusing to work including 160,000 who walked out on Monday and yesterday following the Federal Court’s conviction of Mr. Lewis for contempt.

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