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Argued the U.M.W.'s frog-voiced little Lawyer Welly Hopkins: it was not unreasonable at all. Each miner, sore at the operators' refusal to come to terms with Lewis, had simply laid down his tools and refused to work. As for complying with Judge Keech's order, the U.M.W. was also "disappointed" when the men didn't do as Lewis had twice told them and go back to work...
...U.M.W. had shown only "token compliance" with Federal Judge Richmond Keech's order to send the miners back to work. It was self-evident that the strike was inspired and directed mass action. "It is simply unreasonable to assume that 372,000 men in 28 different states could have acted as individuals in exactly the same way and at exactly the same time...
...Judge Keech decided that the union was innocent...
...waited so long before acting-until Harry Truman could bring himself to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act-moved laboriously along the legal front. This week, in the ultimate stage of the crisis, the United Mine Workers' bow-tied, bass-voiced Attorney Welly Hopkins appeared before Federal Judge Richmond Keech. In obedience to Judge Keech's Taft-Hartley order, the union had twice instructed its 370,000 idle miners to go back to work. They had disregarded the instructions. But the Government maintained that the union was still responsible for their actions. The judge had ordered the union...
Federal Judge Richmond Keech, who had ordered Lewis to send his men back to work, ordered the U.M.W. into court later this week. The union would have to show why it should not be held in contempt of the Taft-Hartley injunction that its men were defying. With his two instructions on the record, Lewis himself had an obvious defense. In any case, that argument might drag out. Meanwhile, what about the coal? What was the country's defense against a strike that brought about economic paralysis? Harry Truman had declared that he had no right to seize...