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...Labor Leader Lewis it was a big and gratifyingly noisy success. To the U.S. it was time wasted that could never be bought back. To the miners themselves it was another weary walkout. Before a truce came last week to the sooty soft-coal hills of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the strike ordained by John L. Lewis had cost some 200,000 miners a week's wages, had cost the defense program at Carnegie-Illinois* some 30,000 tons of steel (enough for 3,000 light tanks or 30 destroyers...
After Lewis had decreed a strike of 53,000 miners in the soft-coal fields, after the President had made two mild, well-mannered pleas for peace, Lewis summoned newsmen to the elegant boardroom of the United Mine Workers to hear his great defiance...
Stockpiles, diminished by last spring's soft-coal strike, were already low, down to two to three weeks according to company estimates...
Still unsettled was the soft-coal dispute, although mines were worked while disputants argued over the question of a 40? wage differential between North and South...
Business headache of the week was the soft-coal strike, with 400,000 miners still idle and negotiations snarled at week's end over removing the 40? wage differential in Southern fields. Coal carloadings dropped to 58,841 for the first week of April (41,785 below the same week in 1940) then skidded to 31,592 the next week, to an estimated 28,000 last week. When the strike began there was enough coal above ground to supply the U.S. for 36-38 days. By this week some industries were only a matter of hours from...