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...Senate Labor Committee launched an investigation into the administration of the fund by its three trustees, Ezra van Horn, representing the owners, Lewis for the UMW, and Senator Styles Bridges for the consumers. The Committee brought out the fact that Bridges had been paid $12,000 by the Fund for legal expenses, and had sided with Lewis in every one of the 28 disagreements to date...
...September 16, the capital of the Fund had dropped to $14,000,000, and it was forced to suspend all payments. Three days later, the nation's 480,000 hard and soft coal miners left the pits in what the UMW called a "spontaneous" walkout. The immediate reason given for the walkout was the default on fund payments by the Southern operators and the new slogan, "no welfare, no work," was conceived. The walkout, however, included the Northern and Western mines which sent their regular monthly payment of $3,000,000 to the Fund on September...
...position of the UMW was not as strong as it had hoped, since summer demand for coal had dropped considerably, negating the effect of the three-day week. Early last week, the anthracite miners ended their sympathy strike, perhaps to persuade their home-heating customers not to switch to oil. Next day, the 22,000 soft coal miners west of the Mississippi returned to their jobs...
...Wiped out the lower court's fine against UMW...
...coal situation in recent years and a presentation of the conditions which exist in the mines today, Laidler offered a three point program for resolving the main difficulties. The solution lies through the effective application of public pressure to make management negotiate in good faith, to democratize the UMW, and to force the government to adopt a positive approach, such as more effective mediation, in strike situations, said Laidler...