U.S. COAL MINERS
ORDER TO RETURN TO WORK DISOBEYED NEW THREAT TO PRODUCTION (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) Rugby, June 24. Thousands of American coal miners to-day refused to obey an order to return to the mines, issuing a new threat to production, states a New York message. Only 20,000 of 125,000 miners returned to work in the central and western Pennsylvania fields which produce coal for bulk use in steel manufacture. Many of these voted to remain idle until a contract was negotiated embodying wage increase demands. The miners’ action was reflected immediately in Pittsburg steel industries, where the Carnegie and Shenango Furnace Company was forced to bank blast furnaces.—B.O.W. FUTURE TREATMENT OF U.S.
STRIKERS
London, June 24. President Roosevelt announced that h.e is going to ask Congress to provide machinery whereby men participating in future interruptions of work in plants, mines or establishments owned or operated by the* Government, can be inducted into the Federal service.— P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 25 June 1943, Page 5
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