Evening star., 1943-06-27
$1,000 Miners Quit
After Curb on Strikes
Is Voted by Congress
Outlook Is Held Bright
For Nearly Normal Output
This Week, However
BY the Associated Press.

TOT tNeuTly I<oTHui Outpul
This Week, However
BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, June 26.-
Mounting signs came from the
Appalachian coal fields tonight
that nearly normal production
might be resumed next week, al
though the situation in Pennsyl-
vania remained uncertain after
a day which saw the closing OF
more mines even though anti
strike legislation has become law
Foremost in the back-to- work
movement were reports that more
thousands of miners returned to
their jobs in West Virginia. Ken
lucky and Virginia, but 10000 quit
work in Pennsylvania and 5000 in
West Virginia.
Coupled with this development
were the almost general predictions
by United Mine Workers district
leaders that most of the men would
be back in the mines Monday morn
ing, even in Pennsylvania.
AS against this, large proper
ton of the men continued to remain
away from work today in large pro-
ducing States like Pennsylvania,
Alabama and Ohio.
Idle Estimated at 10000.
Although absenteeism at many
working mines prevented an accu-
rate estimate of how many men
were back, information from union
and operator sources indicated a
larger number worked today than
yesterday, despite the additional
walkouts in Pennsylvania. Roughly
the number Of idle appeared to be
around 10000, most of them in
Pennsylvania. This would mean
that majority of the men-over
300,0o0-were back in the mines.
A late development in Kentucky
sent 4,500 UNIV members in Dis
trict % on vacation" District
President Ed Morgan announced
they left their jobs and will be
of 10 days because they received
only $40 instead of $50 vacation pay
as stipulated in their contract. Mr..
Morgan emphasized the action did
not constitute strike. 1t affected
mines in five counties.
Nearly 10000 more miners lett the
Pennsylvania pits and, although
four days have passed since the
Policy Committee of the United
Mine Workers issued its back-to-
work order, estimates from coal
producing States indicated produc-
ton still far below normal.
BY contrast, the back -to-work
movement gained big headway in
West Virginia ano prospects ap-
peared bright there for a general
resumption among the 10000 min
ers in the biggest bituminous coal
producing State. Similar hopeful
signs come from other producing
States. 5S -.
$4,000 on Job in Kentucky.
Return of 21.5o0s men to the pits
In Kentucky brought the number or
the job in that State to $4,000 out
OF $4,000 employed.
The new walkouts came unex.
pectedly in both the anthracite and
bltuminous fields in Pennsylvania
where the trend against return has
been strikingly strong among the
states 100000 miners during the
week.
About 1900 hard coal workers in
e stern Pennsylvania revolteo
against the back-to-work order this
morning and approximately 120C
quit work at soft coal mines around
Pittsburgh, some of them under the
urge of picketing.
Several UNIV district leaders have
predicted prompt return of the
majority OF the miners Monday. In
West Virginia the trend gained such
momentum that estimates indicated
not more than 1000 men were idle in
wholly closed mines and the rate
OF absenteeism at working pits i'm
proved sharply.
Tonight the Winding Gulf Opera
tors Association reported 5000 of the
men out in West Virginia had quit
work at its Is mines in the Beckley
w. Va, area this afternoon.
In Ohio workers at one pit voted
unanimously to return Monday. an
action which Adolph Pacifico, vice
president of UNIV district No. 6
interpreted as forerunner for SIM
liar action by other local union units
in Ohio over the week end.
Captive Mines Output Increases.
Also, in Pennsylvania, at Union
town, capital of the captive-steel
mine industry, mines of the United
States Steel Corp. produced more
coal but still turned out only about
10000 tons, compared to normal out
put of around $4,000 tons daily.
Although the new walkouts in
Pennsylvania today came on the
heels of enactment of the new anti
strike legislation, there was nothing
official to relate them as protests to
the action of Congress in overriding
the presidential veto.
Some mine leaders, however, were
bitter in assailing the new law,
William Plizzard wire y,rac;rJeyt -.