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Lewis, Operators Meet for Negotiations as Coal J. Truce Expires.

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Miners of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and the outlying states re- : sponded by following the union’s traditional policy: “No contract, no work.” Operators and union officials agreed to resume negotiations today and it was possible that those conferences might produce at least a temporary settlement. . The full effect of the stoppage was not apparent early today, but even before the truce expired last midnight some miners failed to report for work.

5 Quit at Midnight

At Pikeville, Ky., union officials said 4000 men in the Big Sandy mines were out. In Harlan County, . Kentucky, another 1400 quit work before midnight. District U, M. W: officials in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Utah, Wyoming and Alabama said no miners would report after midnight.

The disclosure that the working _ truce would not be resumed came three hours before the deadline in a terse, matter-of-fact announceqaent from a union spokesman: “There will be no statement from us tonight.”

Lewis later left a Washington hotel for his home at Alexandria, Va., brushing aside questions with “I'll have no statement- tonight.” n

F. D. R. May Appeal

In failing to renew the truce, the U. M. W. defied President Roosevelt, who had said there must be no stoppage of work; Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who said yesterday that it was imperative that an agreement be reached speedily; and the war labor board, which repeatedly has ordered the union’s old wage contract extended until a new one is negotiated. Government leaders now must determine how they can get the miners back in the pits if Lewis does not relent. might appeal again to the patriotism of the miners as he did a month ago. Troops might be dispatched to guard against violence if some miners were willing to work. But the U. M. W. always has prided itself on the strength of its discipline. If the miners heeded their union leaders, troops probably couldn’t make them dig, coal. A clear test was avoided last month on a response to Mr. Roosevelt's appeal because Lewis ordered a truce 20 minutes before the president's radio address. However, relatively few miners answered the president's plea by returning to work the next day. Most of the mines reopened a day later—the day set by Lewis.

Conference Called Off

The work stoppage affected the U.M.W.s 80,000 anthracite miners as well as the 450,000 miners in the bituminous fields. A bargaining conference with anthracite operators was canceled at Philadelphia late yesterday, but Ralph E. Taggart, operators’ spokesman, said the negotiations would be resumed at New York today.

The mine work stoppage came less than a week after the war labor board had issued its order denying the U.M.W. demand for a general $2 daily wage increase. The board made a major concessiog,’ however, in recognizing the union’s portal-

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to-portal pay demand for time spent traveling from the mine entrance to the place of work, and back again. Merely by recognizing that demand, the WLB seemed to have assured the miners of a wage increase of. at least $1 daily. The board ordered the union and operators to resume collective bargaining on the portal-to-portal issue and some minor union deniands.

Ickes Appeals

Those negotiations began last Wednesday. Since then there has been no indication that the conferees were approaching agreement. The operators submitted no concrete proposal but discussed a formula which would have offered the miners no more than 80 cents daily for portal-to-portal pay. The union demanded $2, claiming that - the average miner spent 90 minutes daily in travel. The negotiators met for two hours yesterday morning and recessed without an announcement. They met again in the afternoon with the same result. Meanwhile, Ickes sent a telegram to Lewis and Ezra Van Horn, chairman of the operators’ conference, urging an agreement. Neither Lewis nor Van Horn publicly acknowledged Ickes’ message, but it was believed Ickes had conferred privately with representatives of both the union and the operators.

Talks With Chiefs

Lewis met with district U. M. W. presidents last night at the union’s international headquarters while members of the U. M. ‘W. policy committee waited in the corridors. An hour later, a union delegation headed by Percy Tetlow, union technical adviser, and J o h n O'Leary, U. M. W. vice president, left to confer with the operators. A union.spokesman said an unidentified government official had said an operator had announced the union had refused to meet with the operators last night, “So we're going to meet them,” he said. Van Horn apparently denied the charge. He was heard telling Tetlow that he" reported - only that

for reconvening the conference this morning. If the stoppage is 100 per cent effective, only the 25,000 Progressive Mine Workers (A. F. of L.) will ‘be at work today. The Progressive union has agreed to abide by the A. F. of L. no-strike pledge, which Lewis contends was nullified when the WLB adopted its Little Steel wage formula.

A. F. of L. Works

Lewis has battled the WLB from the start. After direct negotiations with the operators first broke down at New York six weeks ago and the case was referred to the board, Lewis repeatedly defied the WLB. He charged the board had prejudged the case against the miners and refused to participate in its proceedings. After the stoppage May 1 and the government seizure, Lewis ordered a 15-day truce at the request of Ickes. He renewed it May 18, again at Itkes’ request. Both times Lewis obviously hoped that Ickes would intervene, but Ickes disclaimed authority and the case remained in the hands of the war labor board.

May Strikes Worst Since Pearl Harbor

WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P.). —The most serious outbreak of strikes since Pearl Harbor hampered war production in May, la-

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Although May figures are incom-

|—in coal mines, in Chrysler plants {at Detroit and in four rubber plants at Akron—apparently boosted the figure for idle man days above the April total of 675,000.

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Byrnes Serves Notice That Critical Period Has Arrived.

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to fight, to sacrifice together as we have never done before. We must accept willingly and gladly a selfdiscipline to which we are not by tradition accustomed.” As bad news for “Cpl. Hitler” and his axis partners, Mr. Byrnes announced that the 100,000th airplane of the three-year building program rolled off the assembly lines yesterday; that 100 fighting ships had been built in the first

five ‘months of this year and that)

during the year the size of the fleet will be doubled, and that we have built 1000 cargo ships and nearly 100 tankers in the last 12 months.

Has Wide Power

The tremendous aircraft production, he said, will. enable allied forces to “drive the axis from the skies ‘and hold a protection umbrella over our ground forces as they triumphantly march to the roads that lead to Tokyo, to Berlin and to victory.”

Mr. Byrnes’ command of the home-front war effort means that Mr. Roosevelt has given him this sweeping authority in order to devote more of his own time to the increasingly important problems of global war strategy. This does not mean, however, that the president has relinquished any of his wartime powers; he has merely delegated them to Mr. Byrnes, subject to the chief exective’s final approval if necessary.

Many people here believe that Prime Minister Winston Churchill's recent conferences with the president had an important effect on his decision to make Mr. Byrnes war mobilization director.

Talked for Government

Churchill, these semi-official quarters said, has frequently expressed amazement over the fact that the president devoted so much of his time to purely domestic matters. Churchill leaves most of these matters to Clement Attlee, his deputy, and, for practical purposes, Mr. Roosevelt appears to have done the Same sort of thing with Byrnes.

Byrnes talked last night as the full-fledged spokesman for the government. The scope of his address and the authoritative figures he fubied made this point unmistakable,

Not only did the soft-spoken South Carolinian paint an unusually complete picture of the war production program and discuss allied strategy for the future, but he promised to put the civilian phase of the government’s war program on the same basis of efficient co-ordina-tion “that exists on the military fronts.”

“The American people on the farms, in the factories and in the mines, as well as at the battlefront, must work together as one team,” he said,

“Your government has no right to call upon you to work as a team if it is not going to demand of government officials that they work as a team. The people have a right to expect government officials to sacrifice all pride of opinion and co-op-erate just as officers of the army and navy are required to co-op-erate.”

Depressed Optimism

Byrnes said he would meet later this week with his war mobilization committee.

“Until that meeting I can make no statement as to our plan, but I pledge you that I shall do all in my power to bring about the same coordination of efforts among the civilians in governmental agencies that exists on the military fronts,” he said. Several times during his speech Byrnes felt it necessary to depress any undue optimism over the way the war is going. At the same time, however, the Spesch was full of good news. The success of the anti-submarine campaign in May was greater “than we dared to hope for,” he

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Isaid. He reported that merchant ships are being built four times as | fast as they are being sunk and ithat fighting ships were turned out |the first five months of this year at {a rate of one every 36 hours. ’

Calling for still greater plane production “to keep up day and night bombing against the Nazis and the Japs,” Byrnes went into lengthly detail on the plane production program thus far. Almost 60,000 planes were built in the 12 months ended yesterday and he said this rate would continue to increase, Byrnes reported the allies girding “not for a single attack on a single front, but for many attacks on many fronts in the European theater of war and in the Pacific.”

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FORTS BATTER FOGGIA AGAIN

100 Planes Blast Junction 80 Miles From Port

of Naples. (Continued from Page One)

islands of Sardinia and Pantelleria. The Fortresses flew 1300 miles ver water in the attack cn Foggia, 80 miles from Naples, which felt the weight 'of their bombs just an hour after American bombers from the Middle East command had battered the same target in a stiff “one-two” punch. “There wasn’t much opposition for my squadron and our bombing

‘|was accurate,” said Lt. Marion D.

Jones of Memphis, Tenn. “Old Musso can’t use that airdrome for much any more.”

Hangars Damaged

In addition to smashing the air field, the bombers started big fires in the railroad yards. Photographs showed that two hangars were heavily damaged and the rail station, box cars, warehouses, barracks and other buildings were hit hard.

The Fortress crews, swinging up the coast, saw fires still burning and smoke arising from the Naples area, which was previously bombed. (The Italian compumunique today said that Foggia, Pantelleria island and the towns of Augusta on Sicily and Cagliari on Sardinia had been bombed. The axis radio reports claimed that 20 allied planes were shot down in the Italian theater, presumably on Monday, when actually only two were lost. This exaggeration apeared to be an effort to persuade the Italian people that axis airplanes were defending Italy, although the allies have encountered less and less air opposition in recent days. .One German report said it was “estimated” that the allies lost about 80 planes in attacks on Italy recently whereas the entire May total for the northwest air force was 108 planes. Italian reports admitted heavy damage in the Foggia sector.) Bomb-carrying Lightnings again attacked Pantelleria island, reporting that no enemy fighter opposition was encountered.

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ENGLISH TOWN BOMBED A SOUTH COAST TOWN, England, June 1 (U. P.).—Nazi fighter bombers this afternoon bombed a hotel on the south coast, causing a number of casualties and some Joma. Other buildings also were hi

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place a majority of the nation’s 44,000,000 income taxpayers on a largely current basis. If this happens, and the senate follows suit, the measure will go to President Roosevelt before the end of the week. The measure would forgive all of a year’s income taxes for persons whose 1942 tax bill does not exceed $50. Persons whose liability last year was $66.67 or less also would be forgiven a flat $50. Others would be forgiven 75 per cent of a year’s payments on 1942 or 1943 income, whichever is lower, and granted two years to pay the remaining 25 per cent. - Current taxes would be collected through a 20 per cent withholding tax on wages and salaries, to start July 1. Opposition to the plan will come from a small group of Democratic members of the house ways and means committee who are opposed to forgiveness in any degree. Reps. Wesley E. Disney of Oklahoma, Jere Cooper of Tennessee and John D. Dingell of Michigan plan to speak against the proposal during the two-hour debate permitted opponents of the conference com-

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was unable to determine the source of the policeman’s screams because the two prisoners had thrown a blanket over his head. Miss Porter placed her foot against the barred door and frantically clutched the knob to keep it closed. Harris threatened to strike he knuckles with a bottle. ‘When the men finally shoved her away he struck her and knocked her against the wall. The two men again threatened Miss Porter and Pennick and took keys from Miss Porter to unlock a hallway door. Keys which had been taken from the policeman failed to open it. While in a nearby office Miss Porter attempted to use the telephone to call for help, but was orderéd under threat not to put the call through.

Rip Off Door Lock

The two men made their way into the hall, ran to the northwest corner of the hospital, ripped off the screening and lock from a first floor door and fled. Harris was dressed in pajamas and a robe, but Richardson was attired only in a regulation. hospital nightgown. Patrolman Gibbons was wearing his glasses when attacked and they were broken. It is feared that his eyes might have been cut. He is in the hospital for treatment for cuts on the head and face and observation of his eyes.

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India, China, Egypt, North Africa and England. He recalled that Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney, commanding allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific, with cargo planes and bombers, had carried thousands of troops several hundred miles from Australia to their jumping off positions in New Guinea. “He not ,only carried the men,” Arnold said, “but he also transported their artillery, the prime movers, the crews, the camouflage nets and ammunition.

Supplied a Division

For several weeks, he fed and supplied, by air, an entire division operating on the north side of the 15,000-foot Stanley range. The same method of transportation has been and is being used between China and India, where the planes must cross the 18,000-foot southern spurs of the Himalayas.” Last month, Arnold said, 1800 planes were dispatched over the Atlantic and Pacific with the same

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the dispatch of 100 planes from § |New York to San Francisco five years ago. Despite his optimistic forecasts of the use of air power, Arnold said that Germany and Japan remain mighty military powers, t; desperately, and that the country’s best efforts will be required to win,

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