COALMINING INDUSTRY.
UNION LEADER'S CHARGES.
ATTACK ON NOTABILITIES.
(Received March 8, 6.40 p.m.) A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON, March 7. The Resident of the United Mine Workers of America, Mr. John Lewis, made charges of a grave nature against the operating authorities in the bituminous coal industry of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. In a speech, which lasted four hours, he placed much of the blame for unemployment, pauperism, and the encouragement of radicalism upon the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. A. W. Mellon and Mr. John Rockefeller, general attorney and president of the Pennsylania Railway Company. He stated that they and others were responsible for the usurpation by the coal companies of the powers of the Government and of the Federal Courts, also for the issuance of "unfair" injunctions against the mine unions and the collapse of the Jacksonville agreement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19891, 9 March 1928, Page 9
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