AMERICAN COAL STRIKE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27254, 3 December 1949, Page 7

AMERICAN COAL STRIKE

Miners Ordered To Return

Mr Lewis Intervenes

NZPA—Copyright NEW YORK, Dec. 1

The miners’ leader, Mr John L. Lewis, to-day ended a 'coal strike, which began last night, by ordering his union members to resume work on Saturday on a three days a week basis in both bituminous and anthracite mines throughout the country. The miners will work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, as they did throughout the summer. Mr Lewis authorised the making of separate contracts with each coal company, thus abandoning his* recent policy of striving for national contrscts* Mr Lewis and the unions’ Policy Committee had allowed the three weeks’ truce to expire at midnight last night without moving to stop the miners’ walkout. The Associated Press' called Mr Lewis’s strategy a compromise, adding: “It keeps the miners at work before Christmas, thus reducing the threat of revolt among them about meagre earnings in 1949. He also staved off G6vernment intervention, because as long as the mines produce coal for three days a week the chance of creating an emergency is remote.”

INTERNATIONAL SOCCER

LONDON, Nov. 30. England beat Italy by 2 goals to nil in a Soccer match played in London to-day.