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Meetings between John L. Lewis and representatives of the nation's soft coal producers will be resumed tomorrow at Charleston and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. These meetings will be the resumption of efforts of Cyrus S. Ching, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, to settle the coal strike which has been continning "unofficially" but effectively since September...
Layoffs & Grocery Bills. John L. Lewis himself was devoting only part of his time to the state of his mine workers. He absented himself from negotiations with the operators at White Sulphur Springs and Bluefield, W.Va., and traveled to Springfield, Ill. to visit his 91-year-old mother who was seriously Ill. But the two-week-old coal strike he had imposed upon the nation-and on his 480,000 coal miners-was clearly not accomplishing its purpose...
Arrogant and imperturbable as ever, Lewis surveyed the idle coal fields and kept his own counsel. He drove his Cadillac over to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. (acquiring a ticket for speeding on the way) to attend negotiations with the northern, and western coal operators. John Lewis had no quarrel with them over the miners' welfare-fund payments; they had paid theirs faithfully, even sending along $3,000,000 last week despite the strike...
...Administration's remedy looked more like sulphur & molasses than penicillin, but it might ease the pains a little. The biggest spending departments and agencies of the Government were ordered to place as many Government contracts as possible in areas where unemployment is chafing the most-when it can be done without hurting any other regions too much...
...leftist regime. Gildo Gasperoni had been heard to say: "If the casino succeeds we will be all right. If it doesn't, then we pack our bags and go." If Gasperoni went, thought San Marinese, Maxim might also go. He might even go in a cloud of sulphur smoke...