U.S. MINE STRIKE SETTLED: MEN WIN INCREASES IN PAY
WASHINGTON. Mar. 5. Representatives of the United Mine Workers Association and the mine owners today signed a contract ending the strike in the soft coal mines. The owners’ representatives said they were sure that most of the 370,000 strikers would return to work tomorrow. The miners, under the contract, got a wage rise of 70 cents daily and an increase of 10 cents to 30 cents in payments to the union’s welfare and retirement fund for each ton of coal mined. The contract will be effective until 1952.
The union president. Mr. John L. Lewis immediately ordered the strikers to return to work.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23196, 7 March 1950, Page 5
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