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...Washington, portly Robert Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, tried to stop John L. Lewis with the Taft-Hartley Act. He went to court at the urging of the operators to get a court order against the three-day week. He got little thanks for it. As a West Virginia miner said: "Paper don't cut coal." Said Harry Truman: Denham is on his own. Said Robert Taft: "We didn't intend to give anyone the right to send people back to work-except when there's a national emergency-when no contract exists...
...segregation practiced in East St. Louis and neighboring counties has been against Illinois law since the 1880's. The grimy industrial town where race tension has long been a tradition (in 1917, 39 Negroes and eight whites were killed in a three-day race riot) got away with it until this year. Then the legislature tightened up the law and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People promised injunction suits if the law was not enforced. Threatened with the loss of some $680,000 a year in state funds, East St. Louis finally gave...
...Lewis, unable to beat the ganged-up might of coal-industry leaders, was trying to pick them off, company by company. Actually, John L. Lewis was winning nothing but minor skirmishes, which he proclaimed as victorious battles. Most of his 480,000 miners were still working a three-day week. By week's end, barely 2% of the nation's soft-coal mines had surrendered to his terms...
...difficulty was not all of his own making: the industry was sick; it could no longer sustain all its mines working full-time all year. The question was whether John L. had found the right answer: in effect a three-day week only divvied up the distress...
...given up. The three-day week had saved him from a possible Taft-Hartley injunction, would keep the rank & file quiet and keep the coal stockpile down to a size where he might be able to use a coal shortage as a bargaining weapon. Lewis had also gained time in which to try to divide management by making separate agreements-a strategy which Phil Murray had used successfully against the steel industry. He badly needed...