Show LEWIS A Fine Largess John L. L Lewis president of the United Mine Workers of America a a labor union which does not pay its members strike benefits benefit and which subjects them to untold misery misery mis mis- ery err and hardship during strike per was Pods was offering a victory victory flush flush flush- ed eY one dollar one dollar loan to the I CLO United Workers Worker union THE TIlE PURPOSE of the loan would be to help the win new contracts from Chrysler and General General Gen Gen- eral Motors Lewis wrote Walter Reuther head of the giant auto workers union that wage welfare improvements in the coal Industry Interests i were fought by money linked with the financial group which dominates car He lie added that this aid is la needed so 10 o your union may be beyond be- be yond of success in Reuther was its present struggle in the midst of a long strike for pensions at Chrysler corporation At the time of f Lewis' Lewis offer it was estimated workers had lost 36 35 million dollars in pay and the company million dollars Help for Reuther was authorized at a jubilant meeting of Lewis with his top union aides where Lewis was Wal said ald to have boasted that he had licked the strike-emergency strike Injunction provision of the Taft Taft- Hartley artley law Inasmuch as a federal court injunction issued under the x law failed to halt the coal strike MOST of the big US U.S. industrial concerns feared that Lewis' Lewis victory over the coal operators in the matter mat ter of wage Increases and additional addition al health and welfare benefits would touch off oft a series of ot strikes as s other unions sought to do as aswell aswell aswell well for themselves Coal Coat was being mined again and ln industry's wheels were wert turning but the immediate future appeared grim and uncertain The question seemed to be When and where will the next strike erupt It seemed Inevitable to even a casual observer that another round of wage hike fights was wu In the making |