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John Lewis exploded, termed WLB "that group of little strutting men." But after an order by Franklin Roosevelt, he sent his miners back to work. For 24 hours it seemed that John Lewis had eaten crow. Then he let it be known that he had merely proclaimed another truce. Barring a sudden retreat by either side (in Illinois this week coal operators agreed to a $1.50 raise), Strike III will begin June...
...Government did not mean it. All the ingredients for a full showdown were assembled, but instead of arresting John Lewis, the Government, through another branch (Harold L. Ickes) asked Mr. Lewis not to strike against it. Mr. Lewis, with a great show of patriotism, agreed to extend the strike truce till May 31, sending out 5,000 telegrams over the overburdened telegraph lines to tell his lieutenants the strike was postponed, thus ending two weeks of buildup...
Strategic Truce. John Lewis now had a 15-day truce, in which he was prepared to bargain with his new employer, the U.S. Government. He had successfully bypassed the coal operators and the War Labor Board. As the week began, chances were he would win a guaranteed six-day work week for his bituminous miners ($7 a day for five days, $10.50 for the sixth), and perhaps even a guaranteed annual wage, which was his goal. The Government as an employer could afford to pay any amount, for the Government as a wartime customer needed all the coal the miners...
...truce was a Lewis masterpiece: a piece of tactics no Clausewitz could have improved on. The President had given fair warning that he would address the miners and the nation on Sunday night. Sunday morning John Lewis and three henchmen slipped into Washington, worked out the truce with Harold Ickes, now his boss as Solid Fuels Coordinator. Lewis entrained for New York. Naturally the truce could not be announced until the miners' policy committee had met. And somehow the policy committee deliberated just long enough. Twenty minutes before the President went on the air, John Lewis announced the truce...
When the war began, Labor joined the Liberals and Tories in a coalition Government. Now the Party is thoroughly enmeshed in the coalition web. Apparently, the Laborites are afraid to test their voting strength by ending the political truce which has left Britain without a general election since...