Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1946 — Page 17

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TRE MAY 5 1946

By RADFORD MOBLEY Times Special Writer

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when 23,024,000 man-days were lost, Second was 1043, when the | total was 7,510,000, Last year 5,007,000 man-days were lost. The 1927 strike was over wages, It | I was. unsuccessful after severa)| months of idleness. The miners re- | turned to work under agreement

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Authoritative sources here develop this information: In the period after world war I there were general strikes in the soft |’ coal industry in 1927, 1935, 1939, 1041, 1943 and last year. Number of workers involved was ‘highest in. 1941 when 593,400 were

employers,

Data on Coal Strikes Reveals Most 'Man-Days' Lost in 1927

WASHINGTON, May. 10.—<What are the facts and figures about

John idle was'L. Lewis led the strike at the time highest in the giant strike of 1027 land went down to severe defeat. Not Concerned at First Lewis finally told his local lenders to get the best terms pics

The public was not too concerned |

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{were not organized as they are | today and continued to produce. There was no threat of a shutdown in essential estimated that three-fourths. of the] nation’s needs were being met de-! spite the prolonged strike. The 1935 strike of about 400,000 | workers lasted only a week when a new agreement providing for an increase of 9 cents in tonnage rates] went -into effect. The union con-

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The 1939 strike involved 355,000 miners, and a loss of 7,303,000 manwhen a wage increase of $1 a day and elimination North-South. differential was demanded, union and manage- | weeks but finally signed an agreement | providing the wage elimination of the differential. Portal-to-Portal Issue In 1943 coal mining came to a virtual halt on May 1 when Secretary of the Interior Ickes took mines.

increase and

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pay was a principal issue. The war labor board stepped in with an increase in vacation pay, the cost of safety equipment. The board denied portal-to-portal pay but a truce permitted mining to go ahead. Work stopped again in mid-sum-mer, but the union issued a backprovided the government continued to operate the

bureau

The strike last fall was over the issue of collective bargaining rights for supervisory employees. | The following table by the U, 8.

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- strikes and lockouts in the bitu- \ Here are Smart minous mining industry, 1927 to 1945: } No. of Workers Man-days 2; Bopp ages Involved Lost ec 4 1927 . 22 176,000 23 024.000 1328 . 20 "63.300 5,941,000 1929 ...... 58 18,000 182,000 WI ...... 52 26.800 383.000 . 23k. .... 57 52 In Brown and White 1032 43 #2 £00 5.914 000 1933... 102 142.200 3.211.000 1 1 1934 78 109.8 Combinations 0 2 420.600 2,971,000 1936 38 19.500 533.000 1937 . 54 99.300 1.925.000 1938 17 500 133.000 1939 25 355.400 7,303.000 | 1940 . 34 4,400 153.000 S 1941 . 5 503,400 6.748 000 ee 1942 .. 96 3.800 264.000 1943 . 400 487.500 7.510.000 1944 ..792 230,000 1.056.000 These 1945... 808 581,500 §.077,000 Grand SUBSIDY ON CORN @ Values TO END TOMORROW With the government ending its Tomorow ’ 30-cents-a-bushel corn purchase .

at midnight tomorrow, total delivery of grain by Indiana farmers is expected to reach 4,000,000

state chairman of the production and marketing administration committee, pointed out the Commodity Credit Corp program designed to relieve famine conditions abroad would add ap$1,200,000 to the state farm income for 1946. Deadline for subsidy

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