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Significant Fact: Hardheaded, practical Bill Short, whose idea it was, is past president of the Washington State Federation of Labor and a former coal miner who was educated to golf and country-club life through his dickerings with businessmen on wages & hours problems...
Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt directed employers (although he has no power to enforce his directive) not to hire any gold miner unless he was referred to them by the U.S. Employment Service. McNutt promised that the men would be given a choice between the other mining jobs available, would be given every help, including transportation if necessary. If 4,000 gold miners go into copper mining, there should be almost 16,000 tons more copper produced each month...
...Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Coal Co. has had a 35% turnover since Pearl Harbor, needs 400 more miners than it can find-and it takes longer (two years) to train a miner than a soldier...
...Utah and Idaho, WMC recently worked out a voluntary "freezing" arrangement with employers and unions: henceforth no copper, lead or zinc miner can leave his job without permission; to make the agreement stick, the War Labor Board raised wages $1 a day - 25% instead of the 15% formula. Said one mine operator: "This is a perfect case of locking the barn door after the horse is stolen." One-fifth of the miners are already gone...
Died. Myrta Edith Bell Lewis, 62, small, quiet, self-effacing wife of John L. Lewis; in Alexandria, Va. Daughter of a country doctor, she was a schoolteacher when she married the 27-year-old coal miner whose education had ended when he was twelve. As his wife she laid out a program of study for him, encouraged him to read, led him to the classics-subsequently could not keep him from quoting them. Well-informed in politics and labor, she never expressed her opinions in public, took small part in social affairs except as companion to her husband...