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...Lewis agreed with me and said he would be in my office at 11. Then I called Ezra Van Horn [the operators' representative] and gave him the same spiel. He said he would see me at 11. When they arrived I took them into my office and said, 'Gentlemen, this thing has got to be settled. I understand that the whole dispute hangs on getting a referee-a third trustee for the pension fund...
...said, 'Why sure, Joe, I told you last night I would take the job.' Then and there Lewis and Van Horn elected Styles Bridges the third trustee. It was agreed that the three of them would meet the next...
...distributing the pension fund. His plan: $100-a-month pensions for miners over 62 with 20 years' service, who retired after May 28, 1946. Lewis had wanted to give $100 pensions to all miners over 60 with 20 years' service, no matter when they quit. Van Horn had never made any proposal; he had simply maintained that Lewis' plan was not legal and could never be supported on the 10? royalty which the operators are required to pay on every ton of coal mined...
Lewis "somewhat regretfully" accepted the Bridges plan. Van Horn voted Nay. Bridges announced: "We have solved on a temporary basis the differences, subject to further review." Lewis wired his miners: "PENSIONS GRANTED," which was taken to be a signal to go back to work. Lewis still had Judge Goldsborough angrily hovering over him, but he hoped that the sunshine of temporary peace would dissipate that cloud...
...Kuniyoshi looks rather like a prematurely aged Japanese schoolboy. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and a porkpie hat, smokes a pipe, and says he has "no time" for golf any more. He is too busy working, nine hours a day, on the sorts of pictures that fill most of his Whitney show: ragged, melancholy still lifes, Western landscapes and dusky figure paintings. Each painting begins with a detailed charcoal drawing from the model, which he modifies from month to month as he sees fit. "I play with my paintings," he says, "and I sometimes have a dozen of them going...