AMERICAN MINES DISPUTE
» —. MR J. L. LEWIS’S LATEST MOVE. WAGE AGREEMENT SIGNED IN ILLINOIS. ' (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 22. Mr J. L. Lewis announced that the United Mine Workers’ Association and the Illinois coal operators have signed a two-years’ agreement which, if approved by the War Labour Board, will give 30,000 miners 125 cents more a day for portal travel time, and an additional 150 cents a day overtime pay by lengthening the basic working day from seven to eight hours. A correspondent of the “New York Herald-Tribune” says that the deal is generally regarded as an attempt by Mr Lewis to stampede the remainder of industry into signing contracts on terms which the Government will find difficulty in rejecting.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1943, Page 2
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122AMERICAN MINES DISPUTE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1943, Page 2
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