MINERS’ STRIKE
IN THE UNITED STATES CALLED OFF FOR FORTNIGHT. NEW 'NEGOTIATIONS PROPOSED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 5. The United Aline Workers’ Association has called oft its strike, and all hard and soft coal miners are to return to work on Alonday, states a Washington message. The president of the union, Air John L. Lewis, said that the miners placed the nation’s Avar time interests above their own ungranted and long-de-ferred claims for justice.
The union announced that the 530,000 members on strike have been ordered to return to work till June 20, pending new negotiations with the operators. Earlier, Mr Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and Fuel Controller, sent a terse message to Mr Lewis saying that he expected Mr Lewis to send the men back. He told the men that they would find a 30-dollar rise in holiday pay and allowances awaiting them when they returned to work.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 3
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152MINERS’ STRIKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 3
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