COAL STRIKE IN BACKGROUND.
Recoivod Fridav, 8.30 p.m. i ' XEW YORK, May 23. Seant hopes are enlertained I'or the completion oi the eoal wnge HL'rccinent beiore next Saturday night when the eoal strike truce t-xj'ircs. says the Xew York Times Washington eorrespondent. In any «*ase ihe railway strike makes a continuation oi the truce purely .•ic.-Kjciiiic since thcre will be no locomotive power to shil't the eoal i'rmn ihe mines. The I'ailways handle 90 per eent oi' the eoal iiciulit and unless the strike is settled, eoal production will be Mnuract icable at most mines by toniorrow night. ( '0.11 versal ions between the Solid Euels Administrator, ATr. K : >!«;■. and the miners' leaders, eontinued today and tliey are resimoug lomori'ow. About hali Ihe nation's 400,000 eoal miners oi i- niiw disregarding the truce.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1946, Page 5
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132COAL STRIKE IN BACKGROUND. Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1946, Page 5
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