| Show Mine Mine W Walkout Brings Cut Cui CutIn In Rail Travel WASHINGTON March Mach 18 UP UP- UP The The gover government ent Thursday ordered a cut In train service and a ban banon banon banon on coal exports because of the tho mine shutdown The office of defense e transportation tation directed a 25 cutback in coal-burning coal passenger train servIce service sery- sery ice effective at midnight next Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day March 21 21 The 0 O D T acted under wartime powers it still re re- re Shipments of coal coat abroad will win be stopped at t the same time This action was taken by the commerce departments department's office of international international lonal trade The office controls foreign shipments through its export export ex ex- port license powers Shipments in transit will not be affected Both steps arc being taken to conserve domestic coal stocks reported reported re- re ported at dangerously low levels The steel industry already has cut down dow on operations because of the miners' miners work stoppage On another front the government government government govern govern- ment a acted ted In an effort to bring he the c old four tie up to an end Cyrus Ching federal concilia- concilia ion Hon chi chief t met separately with John rohn L. L Lewis president of the i United Mine Workers and Ezra Van Horn Ham spokesman for tor the mine operators None had anything an thing to say afterward afterward afterward after after- ward although Van Horn told reporters reporters reporters re re- re- re porters coal operators might have havea a statement later The operators met after fter Van Horns Horn's conference with Ching and then scheduled a second session f The 0 DT said the cut in coal- coal burning train service is necess necessary ry railroad coal stocks t today to to today day ar are considerably lower than they hey have been beer on previous occasions occasions occasions occa occa- when stoppages In coal production pro pro- have with railroad railroad rail- rail road oad operations The old four-day-old walkout has idled died nearly soft coal miners min min- ers rs and andin in Pennsylvania the steel comp companies nies kept close tab on ebbing ebbing ebb- ebb ing ng coal supplies A pension for miners is Is' the point in dispute between Lewis and the thc operators Both Lewis and Van VanHorn Horn are trustees of a welfare fund set et up under the contract signed last ast July and financed by a lOc a aon aton ton on coal royalty An estimated already has been colle col- col le |
