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...steel industry suffered a production loss estimated at 900,000 tons of ingots (equal to about 675,000 tons of finished steel). With about one-third of the 400,000 soft-coal miners still out, awaiting the court decision on John L. Lewis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Iron Age estimated that the loss will reach 1,400,000 tons before normal production could possibly be resumed...
...Wilmington, N.C., 15 Liberty ships, loaded with food and fuel for Italy, remained tied up at the docks. No coal. Around the country, open hearth furnaces began to shut down. Production of pig iron, the raw material of industry, gradually declined. Washington extended its 25% cut in coal-burning passenger locomotives to the country's coal-burning freight engines. Some 400,000 soft-coal miners had already lost $60 million in wages. At week's end the coal strike was in its 14th...
Familiar voices repeated an old and threadbare lie-the miners were merely on a vacation. But almost every one of 400,000 soft-coal miners had left the pits. Blast furnaces had begun to shut down. An anxious government ordered railroads to cut their coal-burning passenger service by 25%. These were the first signs of the palsy which always accompanies a coal strike. It was no nightmare. It was, in fact and flesh, John Lewis again...
...newsmen whom he had summoned to his office, John said: "Your ears will soon be assailed by [the operators'] outcries and wails of anguish. To relieve themselves, they need only to comply with the provisions of the agreement." He had alerted his 400,000 soft-coal miners...
...sign came, strangely enough, from John Lewis' soft-coal miners, who had gotten the best contract in their history under the shadow of the new law. They were now digging nearly as much coal in a 40-hour week (12.1 million tons) as they had before in 54 hours (12.5 million). Another note of cooperation came from A.F.L.'s David Dubinsky. who ignored the tactics of other A.F.L. and C.I.O. strategists and advised his International Ladies' Garment Workers locals to continue writing no-strike clauses into their contracts...