A BLACK OUTLOOK
AMERICAN COAL INDUSTRY STOPPAGE NEXT WEEK WASHINGTON, (Rec. 7 p.m.) Mar. 26. Mr John L. Lewis, representing the United Mine Workers of America, has notified the bituminous coal operators that their contract will be ended on Sunday at midnight. Four hundred thousand miners will remain at home with their families next week. Mr Lewis told reporters that miners’ blood will not be spilled next week. Lives will be saved and injuries averted. Mr Lewis’s termination of the contract is not a strike, says the correspondent of the New York Times, but
the chairman of the Owners’ Negotiation Committee insisted that it could not be characterised as anything but a strike.
The cleavage of the negotiations, it is believed, arises from the miners’ demand for a health and welfare fund. The owners said they were completely in the dark about what the union demanded in specific terms. The owners offered a wage increase of 18£ cents an hour and other concessions.
A temporary order freezing all coal deliveries will probably be issued soon pending the issuance of a plan for the rationing of coal among the neediest industries.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26113, 28 March 1946, Page 7
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190A BLACK OUTLOOK Otago Daily Times, Issue 26113, 28 March 1946, Page 7
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