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John Lewis, who had ordered a spectacular "memorial" strike in all the soft-coal mines after the Centralia disaster in March, had little to say this time. He said morosely: "I'm here to facilitate payment of benefits to the dependents...
Almost all of John Lewis' 400,000 soft-coal miners were back at work this week with the best contract in their history. His 75,000 anthracite miners had revamped their own unexpired contract to bring it into line. Not only had Lewis won more than twice the wage gains of other labor leaders, he had also punched a yawning hole in the Taft-Hartley...
After three days they had had enough. They were good miners, said their boss, but they were soft-coal miners in a hard-coal mine and they seemed "as lost as a lobster in an Alberta lake." Said one of the Capemen: "We want no more of it. It's too hard work...
...coal miner and his family expect to be healthy? Into drab soft-coal towns all over the country, from Virginia to Montana, five teams of Navy doctors and their helpers last summer went to find out-the first such medical study in the nation's history. Last week the doctors brought in their report: a majority of U.S. mining towns are "a menace to healthful living"; some are "a disgrace to the nation...
...soft-coal dispute, frozen by John Lewis' gruesome "memorial" strike, melted this week like an April thaw. Lewis' miners, losing millions of dollars in wages and gaining not a thing, had been drifting back. Secretary of the Interior Julius ("Cap") Krug had thrown responsibility for mine safety right back at Lewis himself. Then Lewis' old nemesis, Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, melted the last block...