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...union will appeal, but meanwhile further contempt-of-court action can be taken in the same court if Lewis doesn't call off the 14-day old strike in the soft coal mines, now in government possession...
WASHINGTON, December 8--John L. Lewis today was found guilty of criminal contempt of court--with a possible heavy sentence--but the coal strike went on and the Government took drastic emergency action to save fuel by rising in the Federal courtroom and making a bitterly deflant speech. He accused the judge of depriving the coal minors of their constitutional rights. He said he would "firmly stand" on his position...
WASHINGTON, December 2--With testimony that the national income rate will plunge $20,000,000,000 and 5,000,000 persons will be out of work if the coal strike last 48 days longer, the government rested its contempt case today against John L. Lewis...
This week, convoyed by six lawyers, Lewis stalked into Judge Goldsborough's crowded court. The judge listened reflectively to the arguments. Lewis' chief counsel, Welly Hopkins, argued that the court had no right to issue the temporary injunction, therefore Lewis should not be held in contempt. The judge was not impressed. He ordered Lewis to appear two days later for trial. At that time he would also listen to arguments over whether Lewis had violated his contract. The battle between John L. and his Government entered a critical phase...
...Playwright Hellman has drawn. Cruel-cold-blooded, with a sardonic wit and a partly pretentious feeling for culture, he cares only, and then half-incestuously, for his daughter Regina. His treatment of his wife, along with her knowledge of his guilty past, has made her a violent hysteric; his contempt for his sons, the power-craving Ben and the spineless Oscar, has made them bitterly hostile. The fiercest struggle is that between Ben and his father. Constantly defeated, at the moment when he seems finally beaten Ben ferrets out of his mother his father's guilty secret. Being enough...