| Show joe martins coup canny joe martin speaker of the house I 1 took the play away from the white house when he argued john lewis into accepting sen styles bridges rep N H as a third member of his pension board and ended the coal strike and the speaker is taking bows thank you this column reminded you months ago not to sell joe martin short as a presidential candidate but with speaker martin getting the applause it was the administrations trat ions move to cite lewis for contempt that really made him move for lewis actually got less for his miners out of senator bridges on the pension plan than was offered by thomas E murray the neutral member of the board who resigned he cost his miners four weeks work at 75 a week a total of million dollars he put them in debt to company stores for six months he denuded the nations coal stock piles and he made thousands of other workers jobless |
