THE COAL INDUSTRY
CONDITIONS IN AMERICA. UNION PRESIDENT’S CHARGES. (PreM Aftsaciation— Ry Tplocraph -Copyright.) WASHINGTON. March 8. Mr John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, made charges of a grave nature against the operating end of the bituminous coal industry of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, during a speech occupying four hours. He placed much of the blame for unemployment, pauperism, and encouragement of Radicalism upon Mr Mellon, Mr Rockefeller, the General Attorney, and the president of the ePnnsyhania railroad. He staled that they and others were responsible for the local companies’ usurpation of the powers of the Government and the Federal Court’s issuance of “ unfair ” iniunctions against the mine unions and the collapse of the Jacksonville agreement—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20354, 10 March 1928, Page 11
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