Evening star., 1943-05-08

participate In an unauthorized
strike. Thus Jones & Laughlin
sought to assess employees of its
captive" mines IS each for five days
they were out. Refusing to pay the
1,400 men at Vesta No quit work.
This pit, largest of j. & LIS four
mines, is located about 80 miles
south of Pittsburgh.
Calls Fines Illegal.
Similarly. the Hanna Coal Co. at
st. Clairsville, Ohio. imposed 50 fines
resulting in walkout at the Willow
Grove mine, one of the largest in
Ohio. with about 780 on the payroll.
Adolph Pacifco, vice president of
UNIV District 6, contended the fines
we're illegal on grounds that the
contract was abrogated before the
men quit April 90 About 100 men
also we're idle last night at the Pow
hatan Point mine, in Ohio. A COM
pany spokesman says the fines go
into charity fund.
The third strike, at the Kind mine
near Princeton, Ind, was blamed by
Mine Supt. David Jones on a two
week-old wage dispute. He said 200
men on the night shift failed to re-
port for work last night when they
found themselves "docked" for time
lost in an April walkout, which CEN
tered about work days lost during
mechanical trouble
Twelve hundred anthracite miners
we're scheduled to resume work at
Glen. Lyon, Pa, Monday, after a
weeks idleness, pending negotiation
of local grievance with the Sus-
quehanna Collieries Co. The UNIV
did not authorize the Walkout.
Presidents Stand.
The soft coal walkouts were the
first since the Government took over
operation of the mines last Satur-
day. President Roosevelt said at his
press conference yesterday that the
miners now are Government en-
ployes. He remarked that in his
many years of Federal service he
could not recall any strike by Gov
ernment employees against the Gov
ernment.
Meanwhile the first specific threat
that miners would not work without
a contract after their truce expires
May l8 was issued by John P. Busa-
relic, president of UNIV District 5,
which includes about $4,000 of West
ern Pennsylvania 117,000 bitum-
anous miners.
Mr.. Busarello said the district
board adopted this resolution at
Pittsburgh
The officers and members of Dis
trict will carry out the traditional
policy Of no contract, no work,
effective as Of midnight May 10,
1e43."
WLB designations Rumored.
The announcement that the WLB
intended to stick to the Little Steel"
formula followed reports that labor
members were preparing to quit the
board in the absence of some relaXa-
tion-reports that Mr.. Roosevelt said
yesterday should be discounted.
The board statement said that on
March % the AFL petition to raise
the ceiling Of this formula was re-
jected.
The board" said the statement,
"has not considered any change in
the formula since that time and is
not considering it now. The current
discussions of executive order No.
1928 president Roosevelts hold
the line order) have nothing to do
with any change in the Little Steel
formula for correcting cost of living
Embellishments.
Supports Roll Back"
"The board is unanimous in its
support of the current plans of the
administration to roll back food
prices and other prices that criti-
cally affect the cost of living of the
lower income groups" it continued
During the past two weeks the
board has had many conferences
with the director of economic stabili-
cation looking toward the solution
of. concrete problems which have
arisen as result Of the boards
effort to administer executive order
No. 1928 Of April 8. The board has
told the director that it is unanimous
in its conviction that this order
Is unavoidable without further clari-
fication OF points which are either
not clearly covered or are not Gov
cred at all by the order.
THE board unanimously believes
that these points can be clarified
within the framework of a realistic
and effective wage stabilization pro-
gram which is In full harmony with
the administrations determination
to roll back the cost Of living"
Representative Rowe, Republican