Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as real and grim as the shutdown was the dispute. John Lewis insisted that every miner over 60 with 20 years of service should be paid a pension of $100 a month. The operators' Ezra Van Horn insisted that to finance such a plan the present 10?-a...
The fiction of a "vacation" was maintained because Lewis could not legally order a strike. In Washington he stalked in & out of conferences while outsize Cyrus Ching, the Government's chief conciliator, beamed on him hopefully, tried to drag him into a meeting with the coal operators.
Familiar voices repeated an old and threadbare lie-the miners were merely on a vacation. But almost every one of 400,000 soft-coal miners had left the pits. Blast furnaces had begun to shut down. An anxious government ordered railroads to cut their coal-burning passenger service by 25...
As paralysis spread, the Administration considered the next move: using the emergency machinery ultimately to get an injunction, force Lewis to keep the mines operating until every possible solution had been explored. This machinery was provided by the Taft-Hartley Act, which Harry Truman once denounced as "cumbersome and ineffective...
Students may come and go, and to those who intend to go home for the Easter recess the railroad companies send their blessings. Despite John L. Lewis and his string coal-miners, trains will be leaving regularly today and tomorrow.