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FOR WANT OF COAL

STEEL PRODUCTION IMPEDED IN UNITED STATES

BLAST FURNACES BANKED IN PITTSBURG. THOUSANDS OF MINERS REFUSE TO RESUME WORK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, June 24. Thousands of American coal miners refused to obey the order to return to the mines, issuing a new threat to production, states a New York message. Only 20.000 of 125,000 miners returned to work in the Central and Western Pennsylvania fields, which produce coal for bulk use in steel manufacture. Many of these miners voted to remain idle until a contract has been negotiated embodying their wage increase demands. The miners’ action has reflected immediately on the Pittsburg steel industries, where the Carnegie and Shenango Furnace Company has been forced to bank blast furnaces.

ACTION BY PRESIDENT CONGRESS ASKED TO RAISE AGE. FOR NON-MILITARY SERVICE. (Received This Day. 12.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 24. President Roosevelt has announced that he intends to ask Congress to raise the age for non-combatant military service under the Selective Service Act to 65 years, as a means of meeting any future threat of interruption of work in plants, mines and establishments owned or operated by the Government.

President Roosevelt said that before the United Mine Workers’ Association leaders ordered the miners back to work, the Government had taken steps to install machinery for the induction into the armed services of all miners subject to the Selective Service Act who absented themselves without just cause from work in mines under Government operation.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430625.2.46

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1943, Page 4

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249

FOR WANT OF COAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1943, Page 4

FOR WANT OF COAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1943, Page 4

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