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...eight-month battle for higher wages he had campaigned like a Red general, scornful of the cost, his eyes fixed on the final objective. He began with a war of nerves, attacking with a demand for $2 a day more for every miner. He followed up with one strike threat after another-at a time when the U.S. considered a coal strike unthinkable. Three times, by strikes, his forces streamed through the suburbs and stormed the city's gates. Three times he was repulsed...
...final battle last week, Lewis won from Harold Ickes a contract giving the miners an extra $1.50 a day for overtime, plus travel time. This, together with an added 25? a day granted by WLB during an earlier delaying action, actually gave John L. more than he had asked for-a point mainly overlooked by the press. He had demanded a weekly wage of $57.50; under the new and complicated contract, a miner working a full week will get a minimum of $58.87. John L. Lewis purred that it was a "satisfactory wage agreement...
...five weeks. He emerged with proposed Contract No. 3: an intricate formula which cagily skirts any mention of increased hourly wages or "portal-to-portal" pay. But the new formula (chiefly by upping the hours to 8½ per day) finally adds up to $2 more a day per miner...
...sheer mulishness, a resounding victory. If WLB turns him down, John Lewis will be able to point virtuously to his three heaving attempts at a settlement. And his big, meaty finger is still aimed ominously at a deadline: Oct. 31. After Oct. 31, if there is no approved miner-operator contract under which John Lewis' miners can work, the U.S. can do without coal...
Eleven years ago Miner Tucker, was caught in a cave-in. He lay under tons of rock with both legs, all his toes and his pelvis broken, his skull fractured, his left arm mangled. In conscious moments he heard rescuers working to save him. He also asked God to help him, vowed that if saved, he would enter the ministry...