Government To Take Firm Hand In Coal Dispute

Northern Advocate, 20 November 1941, Page 2

Government To Take Firm Hand In Coal Dispute

(Rec. 3 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 19. Developments in Washington indicate that the administration is preparing to take a firm hand in the coal strike. As the situation on the coal fields hourly grows more intense some observers believe that outside workers will be brought into ‘•captive” mines under army protection. Walk-outs in sympathy with the “captive” miners closed 12 additional commercial mines in Pennsylvania. At least 15 commercial mines in southern and west Virginia have closed in sympathy with the captive miners. It is believed all will shut down after tomorrow. A spokesman for the industry estimated that sympathy strikes had already reduced coal production by 75.000 tons a day. Roosevelt Endeavours President Roosevelt is seeking to avert a threatened strike of railwaymen. He invited the leaders of the employers and workers, also Government executives, to a conference at White House, but the meeting was adjourned without reaching any conclusions. A report from Kirkland, on Lake Ontario, says the executive of the United Mine Smelters' Workers Union has ordered 4300 gold miners to strike in the northern gold mining area, as a result of the operators’ refusal to recognise the union as the sole collective bargaining agency. Willkie’s Views In a speech accepting the Church- j man award “for the promotion of goodwill and a better understanding between all people,” Mr. Wendell Willkie urged to delay its fight for a closed shop, but said that President Roosevelt was mostly to be blamed for the labour crisis because he had failed to enunciate a clear, open policy. Mr. Willkie urged labour to clean its own house by throwing out racketeering leaders. He said labour should be represented directly in the “very marrow of our Government in the small group upon which is placed the responsibility of winning this war.”

A handsome lectern for use in the Boys’ High School assembly hall was presented to the school yesterday morning. Made by tire woodwork instructor (Mr. A. T. Smith), the lectern is finished in fine oak, plain and serviceable in design, with appropriate wood carving on its base. Representing many hours of painstaking labour the lectern is finished with a high polish and is a valuable acquisition to the school. Mr. Smith’s gesture was greatly appreciated by masters and pupils alike.