BIG COAL STRIKE
AMERICAN WORKERS 500,000 IDLE ANTICIPATED TRANSPORT SERVICES SUFFER Independent Cable Service (Received May 6, 12.15 a.m.) NEW YOBK, May 5 The vast subway and elevated tram lines system has been ordered to curtail its services by 25 per cent after to-night because of a disastrous fuel famine caused by the failure of the soft coal workers and operators to settle their strike. Protracted negotiations have taken place. The chief of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, Mr. John Lewis, said an additional 126,000 miners would strike at midnight, bringing the total out of work to nearly 500,000, and virtually shutting down the United States bituminous coalfields.
* Large consumers are frantically ordering coal from England.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 13
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116BIG COAL STRIKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 13
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