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Show LEWIS SAYS FIRMS DEFY WAGNER LAW COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 22 (UP) President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers union (CIO) today charged that the federal government gov-ernment had failed to enforce the Wagner labor relations act by not withholding "fat government contracts" con-tracts" from corporations "who have consistently defied the law." "The Wagner act, generally speaking, has been more honored In the breach than In the observance," Lewis said at a press conference after arriving here to preside over his own union's golden Jubilee convention. con-vention. "Surely It could not be considered con-sidered unlawful for the government govern-ment to Insert a proviso In Its contracts con-tracts that the contractor shall obey the law. "Why pay money to criminal corporations which flaunt the law?" |