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With the toughest half of the double-header strike in steel and coal out of the way, the U.S. turned optimistically to idle soft-coal fields. John L. Lewis, who had been waiting for steel and the Steelworkers to settle, was expected to have his 380,000 United Mine Workers back in the pits in short order...
...pension and insurance agreements with the steel industry and metal fabricators. Bethlehem Steel and Jones & Laughlin had been paying the full cost of pension plans for more than 20 years. Fairless' U.S. Steel itself had been an important party to the royalty-pension contract which operators of soft-coal mines had signed with John Lewis (see below). A steel spokesman said: "The Government forced that down our throats." Nevertheless, there it was in Big Steel's throat...
...West Virginia, striking soft-coal miners roamed the countryside in automobile caravans to make sure the mines stayed closed. In Glenridge, Ill., 145 miners showed up briefly but did not even change into work clothes. A few Pennsylvania hard-coal miners turned up at tipples, chatted awhile and then headed back home; most of the 80,000 anthracite miners were also out on a sympathy strike. Nearly everywhere the U.S. digs its coal, mining operations creaked to an almost complete standstill...
Strategic Errors. That was John Lewis' way of repairing some grave errors in his own strategy. When the miners' contract ran out nearly three months ago he had modified the traditional "no contract, no work" policy by ordering all his soft-coal miners east of the Mississippi on a three-day week. But that strategem had fizzled...
With an air of pained surprise, northern and western soft-coal operators fired crusty, aging Ezra Van Horn, an executive of the Ohio Coal Association, from his six-year-old job as the operators' chief labor negotiator. They also tied a new demand to the contract they are negotiating with John L. Lewis. If Van Horn was not relieved of his trustee's job, they would not sign a new contract with the union...