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...blame? United Mine Workers' President John L. Lewis and Northern operators had agreed on a new wage scale: $7 a day (up from $6). This caused neither of them any pain, for the union got a pay rise and it cost the Northern operators nothing, since under the Guffey Coal Act their increased labor cost would be passed along to the public as part of the Government-fixed price of coal...
...Signed a bill extending the 1937 Bituminous Coal (Guffey Coal) Act two more years...
...Freer competition should be guaranteed by 1) elimination of interstate trade barriers; 2) repeal of the Miller-Tydings Act (which gives Federal blessing to State minimum-price laws); 3) elimination of basing-point price systems. The price system for soft coal set up by the Guffey Act was found to contain the "germs" of Fascism. (Congress renewed it for two years last week...
Coal has been No. 1 horrible example of industrial overcapacity since 1920. Yet coal last week was hard to get. The reason is political: this week John L. Lewis, back from Florida, began negotiating with the mine operators for a new contract. Question before the operators was whether the Guffey-Vinson Act, which gives them a price compensation for all proved cost increases above 2? a ton, would be renewed by Congress before it expires April 26. If the Act is not renewed in time, a strike is certain; even if it is, Lewis may pull a strike anyway...
...teaching job last February. One day her voice was exhibited to Samuel Rosenbaum, president of the Robin Hood Dell concerts. Mr. Rosenbaum, after launching Soprano Lewis in the Dell, vowed to get her what he called "visibility" at the White House. He got it through Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey's sister Emma. Soprano Lewis journeyed to Washington, sang songs and spirituals to Mrs. Roosevelt and 300 guests. Said she afterward: "Everybody was so nice to me. Mrs. Roosevelt thanked me and predicted a fine career...