U.S. MINE WORKERS

Grey River Argus, 18 May 1943, Page 2

U.S. MINE WORKERS

MR LEWIS HOLDS OUT ON WAGES CONFERENCE. NEW YORK, May 16. Mr Lewis announced that the United Mineworkers’ Union would not be represented at the meeting called by the War Labour Board at Washington, to-morrow, to discuss miners’ wages. Mi’ Lewis declined to say whether the miners would continue working after midnight next Tuesday, when the fifteen-day truce expires. “The War Labour Board demonstrated the malignity of its purpose to block the new wage agreement,” said Mr Lewis. “The miners feel their case is now outside the Board’s jurisdiction. We believe that jurisdiction and responsibility rest with the agents of the Government now in charge of the coal mines.”