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Looking ahead, steelmen could see the brooding figure of John L. Lewis, and they urged that the biennial soft-coal wage pact discussions start now instead of awaiting March 1, the date now set. The United Mine Workers bided their time...
...fashioned furnace may be bound for the postwar ash heap. Cheap new miniature house heaters have recently been announced by the soft-coal industry and an auto-heater manufacturer. This week the anthracite industry joined in with a pint-sized burner...
Prettiest football coach in the U.S. is 22-year-old Pauline Rugh. When Bell Township High School, in the soft-coal mining community of Salina (20 miles east of Pittsburgh), lost its football coach, the school's comely physical-education teacher persuaded officials to let her take the job. Then she nearly lost it before she started...
...formed a law firm with three friends, specialized in tax, anti-trust and reorganization cases. During the railroad-reorganizing '30s, he came up fast. In April 1942 he landed on the board of directors of C. & O., nation's second largest soft-coal carrier. Last December, only 44, he was boosted to president. As such, he had a big dollars-&-cents stake in the mine dispute, but was neither pro-operators nor pro-miners. In Republican Newton, businessmen agreed that Solid Fuels Administrator Harold Ickes had made a top-notch nonpolitical choice...
Roared John L. Lewis to the soft-coal operators: "Friends, Romans, millionaires...It is a safe assumption that without a negotiated contract the miners will not trespass on your property on April 1." He did not say "strike" -he had joined in the no-strike pledge given by labor shortly after Pearl Harbor. But his meaning was clear: he planned to turn his demand for a $2-a-day wage increase into an all-out assault on the Administration's Maginot Line against inflation. Behind the line the Administration worked frantically on its defenses. First move: a delaying action...