John L. Lewis learned in 1947 that it is dangerous to play fast & loose with the courts. The lesson cost him and his United Mine Workers $710,000. Last week, therefore, ordered by a federal judge, he sullenly appeared before a presidential fact-finding board and explained his version of the coal dispute.
The board listened. It decided that John was mostly to blame for the breakdown in negotiations over the pension fund. As for the current strike, which John insisted was not a strike, the board thought it "was more than a coincidence" that after John wrote his miners a...
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