U.S. MINERS’ STRIKE FOR PENSIONS
WASHINGTON, March 25. President Truman invoked the TaftHartlev Labour Act in an attempt to end by a court injunction the soft coal miners’ strike which has crippled the nation’s railway and steel operations for nine days. Mr Truman has established a three-man fact-tinding board to investigate the dispute and report to him by April 5. Under the Act. he could then instruct the At-torney-General to seek a restraining order' forcing the miners to return to work. The United Mineworkers’ president (Mr John L. Lewis) earlier rejected (lie Government formula for settling the strike. The formula proposed a fact-finding board to investigate the dispute over miners’ pensions which caused the strike. The Government insisted that Mr Lewis recall the men to work before the plan went -into effect.. The union, in a letter to the Government mediator (Mi' Cyrus Ching), said that the Government’s offer wa.s “grotesque".
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Grey River Argus, 27 March 1948, Page 8
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