NO AGREEMENT WITH COAL MINERS
. •' Reeeived Sunday, 7.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 25. Goyarnment negotiatqis aghin^ f ailed to rehch agreeinent With the soft eoalminers' representatives. Mining under the twelve day truee ended at midniglit and the Government appealed to the niiners to say 011 the job Monday morning but whether tlie^- will do so is a question that cannot bc answered until Monday. Mr. J. L. LeWis cancelled a meeting of the United Mineworkers Association policy committee. He says that "the Government seizurc of the soft coal mines invokes the punitive provisions Of the Sntith-Gonnally Slave Statute, thereby iinperilling tlie liberty of indlvidtial members of the union. Therefcre, until a further clarifieation of the national policy, the committee will not be meeting.". ......
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 May 1946, Page 8
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