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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end there was no strike either. Although the old contract had expired and Lewis and the operators were hopelessly deadlocked, a shutdown was averted at the last minute. Both sides agreed to a War Labor Board order to continue under the old contract, with Lewis insisting on a 30-day limitation. The burly U.M.W. boss piously told WLB that, "conscious of the imperative necessity of continuing the production of coal for war," he would accept the order...
...long will it go on? Crosby's current contract with Decca, the latest in a long, profitable series, runs into...
Stories of prisoners enjoying special privileges are mostly baseless. Typical is the widely circulated story that girls from a nearby town went to a dance given by German P.W.s; actually the girls went to a dance held by prison guards. Another story: the Army had let a contract for 200,000 pairs of pajamas for P.W.s; the fact was that the Army ordered the pajamas for its own men in German camps...
...announced that Lewis' demands would cost up to $400,000,000 a year, add up to 65? a ton to the cost of coal. A union spokesman cried "80% wrong," and the soft-coal battle was on. (The anthracite battle will come a little later-the hard-coal contract expires on April 30, a month after expiration of the soft-coal miners' contract...
...special contract with the government empowers the Center to act only in cases referred by the Veterans' Administration. It has not been authorized to serve veterans who apply to it in any other...