U.S. Miners' Strike May Be Extended
Received Sundav, 9.50 p.m. NEW VORK, Uct. 29. The soft coal strike would continue umil the battle over the welfare fund was won, the president of the Mineworkers ' Union, John L. Lewis, dee.Jarfd tonight. Ile added that he might call (oi 80,000 unthraeite ooalminers who returned to the pits a few days atier the coal strike began to join the strike for a seeond time. Mr. Lewis, who was speaking at a dinner in Scranton, Pennsylvania, ternied tlie Taft-IIart iey law as a "ctespicable, danmabie and vieious siave siatute and a blow at the inher©at principles of f reedom. ; ;
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1949, Page 5
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105U.S. Miners' Strike May Be Extended Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1949, Page 5
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