COAL STRIKE IN U.S.
INJUNCTION IS EXTENDED UNION TO ANSWER CHARGES (N.Z.P. A.—Copyright! 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. The United States Government to-day won an extension for 10 days of the Court order banning the coal strike, but 370,000 miners laid their union open to heavy fiitfes for contempt of Court by refusing to return to work.
A Federal Court judge to-day signed an order directing the mineworkers’ union to answer civil and criminal contempt charges on February 24. The union in the interval can purge itself by obeying the Court’s order to return to work.
The Court in the 194 G and 194 S strikes imposed’ on the union contempt fines totalling more than 2,000,000 dollars. The worst cold wave of the winter has gripped the eastern States. The fuel shortage has already made idle 55,000 factory workers, closed schools, reduced train services, and forced brown-outs in some cities.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 110, 22 February 1950, Page 5
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149COAL STRIKE IN U.S. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 110, 22 February 1950, Page 5
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