COAL STRIKE
CRISIS IN AMERICA PRESIDENT'S ACTION VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM STERN ALTERNATIVE • ■ y sßy Telegraph—Pres3 Association —Copyright Independent Cabfo Service (Received May 10, 11.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 10 President Roosevelt to-day issued a '-•virtual ultimatum to both sides in the coal strike deadlock urging them to' submit by to-night a plan by which production can be immediately resumed. More than 500,000 miners are out of work, and many -industries are facing disastrous closure.
The President warned the parties of a 6tern alternative unless prompt action is forthcoming.
The vast subway and elevated tram lines system of New York was ordered to curtail its services by 25 per cent from May 6 because* of the disastrous fuel famine caused by tho failure of the soft coal workers and operators to settle their strike. Protracted negotiations have taken place. The strike has virtually shut down the United States bituminous coalfields, and large consumers frantically ordered coal from England. One hundred and thirty thousand western miners struck work on May 7, joining the 340,000 strikers in the Appalachian district, Virginia. In spite of pleas by President Roosevelt, peace discussions remained at a deadlock.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23343, 11 May 1939, Page 14
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189COAL STRIKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23343, 11 May 1939, Page 14
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