Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Senate Labor Committee launched an investigation into the administration of the fund by its three trustees, Ezra van Horn, representing the owners, Lewis for the UMW, and Senator Styles Bridges for the consumers. The Committee brought out the fact that Bridges had been paid $12,000 by the Fund...
Meetings between John L. Lewis and representatives of the nation's soft coal producers will be resumed tomorrow at Charleston and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. These meetings will be the resumption of efforts of Cyrus S. Ching, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, to settle the coal...
The strike was 100 per cent effective among Lewis's miners, and there were some instances of violence at non-union mines which continued their operations. The anthracite welfare fund, administered separately, had to suspend payments on September 30, since its reserves were dwindling.
Although there has been no public statement of the Union's requests, Lewis has reportedly injected a whole set of demands into the mediation talks. The Union conditions are said to include an increase in average daily pay from $14.05 to $15.00; a reduction from eight to seven hours a...
So the CIO president cannot give in on pensions: to keep his standing in union circles he will have to hold out for a plan entirely financed by industry. Should he do otherwise, Lewis and Reuther will be on his neck. If he does follow this course, industry and the...