U.S. MINEWORKERS PAY HUGE FINE
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (Recd. 8.20 pm). United Mineworkers today paid 1,420,000 dollars in contempt fines for failing to obey the Court order to end the 1948 coal strike. The union was fined 1,400,000 dollars and its president, John L. Lewis, 20,000 dollars. It was said to be the largest fine ever paid by a union. Lewis and the union in 1946 paid a total of 710,000 dollars for not obeying a similar order.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 17 November 1949, Page 5
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