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—s i: Lo + a * : E- ri lA. or the courts to decide questions of lav and fact pendins final jucicial determinavion. Bitusinous coal, richly »bestoved upon America, is the life or our present-day industry. It is the creat fountain-head of the \‘'ation's industrial energy. The flow of soft coal—without interruption--from the rich seans underground to the furnaces is the life-line oF our industrial micht—almost too far-reaching and intricate for one man to *rasp in its entiret,. The industrial life or the Nation depends upon the steady, plentiful, unfaltering supply of soft coal, The characteristics of our | econowy wake it caspletely vulneranle to a stoppa-s in coal procuction In a normal wee!: some tvelve and one-half million tons ere produced by seme 400,000 soft coal miners. The court below found that aonroxinately 43% of all energy produced in the United States cass from bitwiinous coal. In our machine age—and during this vital period of reconversion—to lose this much energy would be catastrophic. it would mean, accordin>s to the evidence here, that in sixty cars~and this strike continved for 17 days after the restraining order vas issred—over €0% of our Class i railroads would be in the yards--stopped - idle-~and over 60% of our public utilities and steel milis shut covm. In fact, over 4/5ths of the enerm™ used in operatin~ such trains and in runnin: the steel mills coses fron soft coal, practically all of which is mined by the mervers of deSendant union. Half of the energy developed by public utilities for lichting our citles—offices anc hones--and for other purposes-——cones fron coal. What would happen to employment during a 60 day coal stoppage? Tt. would male idle some five million of our workers; the national income would drop 20 a lion dollars, and wages paid to workers would decline by the