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Show STRIKE IN COAL MINESJMPENDS WASHINGTON, Jan. (UP) A threatened strike of approximately approximate-ly 25,000 coal miners, led by John L Lewis, headof the committee for industrial organization, today further fur-ther complicated the increasingly critical labor problem harassing the administration. As Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins searched for a new plan to bring peace In the General Motors controversy, a disagreement between be-tween the union and ateel companies controlling so-called "captive" mines appeared moving toward a possible walkout Points to Trouble Representatives of ateel corporations corpora-tions and Lewis' United Mine Work-era Work-era admitted that union insistence on applying the existing check-off system to additional assessments of U, M. W, members is "leading to trouble." The check-off consists of a deduction deduc-tion by operators from miners' sal-ariea sal-ariea which is paid Into union treasuries. treas-uries. It has been used by Lewis to build U. M. W. into a powerful organisation. The controversy, It was learned. I exista at present only between Lewis end ateel companies operating "captive" "cap-tive" (term used to denote a mine operated by an Industry entirely for it own use. Ed.) mine In which U. M. W. claim 28,000 members. Independent operators thus far have not protested the increased checkoff. check-off. DETROIT, Jan. 29 iJPl A petition peti-tion aeeking a court order for eviction evic-tion of "sit down" strikers from the two Fisher body plants at Flint, Mich., revealed today that General Motors corporation no longer considers con-siders the men to be employes. The bill of complaint with the Injunction In-junction petition referred to the "sit down" strikers as "former employes" and aaid "they are no longer employes em-ployes of the plaintiff and have no right to remain on the premises." Company Demand Evacuation of the strikers has been demanded bv General Motors before it would meet with the union to settle the widespread strikes. The department of justice as-j as-j aigned operatives of the federal bu-i bu-i reau of investigation to ascertain whether strikebreakers were sent across state lines to the scene of a strike at Anderson, Ind. The La Follett civil liberties committee com-mittee ordered a senate agent to Anderson to investigate union allegations alle-gations that strikers there were victims of violence. Secretary of Labor Perkins dispatched dis-patched a representative to Anderson Ander-son aim, under instructions to determine de-termine whether General Motors instigated in-stigated raids on a union meeting and the U. A. W. A. headquarters there, a alleged by strike leaders. |