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————— ys fe on = = eps ‘ ” we, From Pare i wy vA cents an hour ‘with the owaers, who were going to to TTR glint 728 cel out ith orn, she brought up soon, ~*. fae . hours overtime; yearly vacations, ‘Lewis then called of the Krug- The Supreme Court order yes-]8 Federal safety code and a welfare Cewls agreement. wae A Aninistr terdgy made sure that nearly the)fund kept up by a charge of 5 cents/,, ang went to court for a ruling whole coal strike injunction case/on all coal mined. | on this point. would be heard at once, at the hear-| Lewis asked In Getober. for! Justice T. Alan Goldsborough of ys ba for muesday January 14. better term, which have not oeen the District Court ordered Lewis President Lewis and See-|Mmade public. They inclu a ~fetary of Interior Juliug A. Krug! 40-hour week with the same take- and the UMW to let the agreement lat spring signed an péreement home pay and price as much for D. im wages, bours and welfare which|the welfare fund, Krug refuse Cc. to Get $2,106,000 “ended _ the spring strike. The bargain, sayin Lew! 3 ; ca ng garike, The bargain, saying Lewig inustieel! te ru W Fine Is Upheld . The District of Columbia gov- | _ ernment probably will get the ; Hion’s share of the $3,510,000 In fines which John L. Lewis and | Ld eS a inhi) ai - + his United Mine Workers may have to fork over... If the Supreme Court upholds the conviction of Lewis and the UMW for contempt and the fines are collected. The financially hardpressed District stands to get $6000 out of the $16,000 that Lewis neraonally was fined—and oe rt ee $2,100, 006 out of the UMW levy-— or a grand total of $2,106,000, The Revenue Act of 1939 pro- vides that the District gets 60 per cent of all Gnes paid into Distri ; Court. tide and to head off a strike un he ruled, but 400,000 soft coal a : walked out just tre same. a The justice fined the UMW three dia a half million dollars, and i wis $10,000, for civil and crimi- : 1 contempf of court. They ap-; aled, and the Justice Department 2 sped the case through te the Su- 3 preme Court, which set a hearing 2. # for next month. This hearing was 2 et on the one question raised by 2 4 the Justice Department-—whether the Norris-LaGuardia ..ct keeps the 7 Government from fighting strikes ay with court orders. é UMW counsel then - raised 20 points of . their own, saying the, Goidsborough order Was against| the Constitution, the fine was too high and the proceedings were faulty. Attorney General Tom C.: Clark said he did not oppose hav-| ing these questions heard and yes- terday’s order was taken for granted, . After the case was betore the high . court Lewis called off the strike, The Solid Fuels Adutnistratlo d yesterday the 17-day co trike cost the country about 2 fen tons of coal. The 59-d trike last spring cost 90 million tons. ‘ whens Seu en eke eee