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John L. Lewis won a famous victory last week when the Southern coal operators agreed to wipe out the 40?-a-day differential between day wages in the northern and southern Appalachian coal fields. It was a famous victory because John L. Lewis, backed up by the National Defense Mediation Board, got a concession which the Southern operators had stubbornly fought three months to deny him. But his victory did not mean quite what appeared on the surface...
...there were still some subterranean blurps and rumbles. The soft-coal squabble smoldered into its fifth week and Southern operators split from the Appalachian wage conference. United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis and the Northerners had reportedly agreed on a new wage rate of $7 a day, but Southern operators refused to budge from their offer of $6.21. Reopening of Northern mines, strike-shut for two weeks, would return two-thirds of the nation's soft-coal fields to production. A few steel plants, which use soft coal converted into coke, had already had to shut down some...
...YORK--Negotiators for 12 southern soft coal operators withdrew today from wage-hour discussions between Appalachian bituminous operators and the United Mine Workers and asked that the National Defense Board undertake to settle the 12-state bituminous mine shutdown...
Thirty years ago, snowshoeing was one of the most popular winter sports in the U. S. Colleges in the snow belt staged intercollegiate snowshoe meets. The Appalachian Club promoted mountain-climbing on snowshoes. Cross-country races, hundred-yard dashes and hurdle races were the nucleus of every winter carnival, and many a web-footed sportsman went home with a severe case of mal de raquette (lame ankles...
...courts had agreed with the power company that it needed no license for its dam, since the New was unnavigable in fact and thus in law. By a 6-2 decision* stated by Justice Stanley Reed, the Court reversed these previous findings, held that the New was navigable, that Appalachian was subject to license and regulation...