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ROSEBURS NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 194.
Contempt Citation for
Lewis Is Prepared
(Continued from Page One)
John Sonnett awaited only the
word from Attorney ricneral Tom
Clark before presenting the con
tempt citation before Judge
Goldsborough.
In all-out action, the adminis
tration waa reported also pre
paring to seek punishment for
any lornl union lenders or others
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Eastern Oregon
Faces Problem in
Soft Coal Strike
(By the Associated Press)
The coal miners' walkout to
day, with Its threat of a critical
national coal shortage, presented
many Eastern Oregon plants and
Institutions with an almost Im
mediate problem.
Western Oregon, where little
coal is used, had onlv Isolated re
ports of lmoending shortages.
Two hosnltals had the most
nresslng problem. St. Elizabeth
hospital at Baker, the only hos
pital In the county, reported that
It would be out of coal tomorrow.
Eastern Oregon state hospital at
Pendleton 6aid It had a 10-day
supply. It was assumed that
loans and purchases from deal
ers' stocks would avert any Im
mediate crisis.
Baker reported this supply sit
uation: Schools in city, several
months: schools outside city, a
month or two; hotel, one to three
months; courthouse and city hall,
15 days; creameries, one month;
dealers' supplies cleaned out to
day; power and light plants use
sawdust fuel.
Pendleton dealers reported
1300 to 1!S00 tons of coal on hand
which under normal conditions
would carry the city for three
weeks. Dealers are rationing coal
one ton at a time to all having
less than 10 days' supply. Schools
and flour mills have about a
month's supDlv at hand. The
scnool superintendent estimated
that the fuel could be stretched
to about Feb. 1.
At Gresham, nee? Portland,
the area's largest brick plant re
ported that it had about a week's
supolv on hand and that if It
were forced to close, a month
would be required to reheat the
kilns. The plant produces 1,500,
000 bricks a month.
No state Institutions, other
than the hosuital at Pendleton,
burn coal. The university and the
who are found to be encouraging
a strike.
Others May Be Prosecuted
If Lewis should be found In
contempt for non-complaince with
a court order, he could be fined
or sent to Jail to stay until he
purged himself of contempt, if
the judge so ordered.
It was Goldsborough who on
Monday Issued an order directing
Lewis to recall his "termination"
of the United Mine Workers
(AFL) contract, effective last
midnight. Lewis did not recall
it.
Evidence Is being collected with
a view to prosecuting under the
Smith-Connally act anyone, from
Lewis on down, whom the gov
ernment may contend is en
couraging a strike. The Smith
Connally law forbids encouraging
or Inciting a strike in a government-operated
mine or plant.
Conviction carries a penalty of
$5,000 fine or a year in jail.
May 'Freeze' Union Fund
Study Is being given to the
possibility of "freezing" the Unit
ed Mine Workers S11.500.0lX)
union fund, and this will be done
if a way can be found around
"legal technicalities."
In the mounting crisis, U. S.
troops stood ready to move into
the coal fields to prevent vio
lencebut not to mine coal. Unit
commanders were alerted.
Government officials also kept
an anxious ear to the ground for
any manifestations of a general
upheaval hy labor. The AFL
with its 7.1.")0.000 union members
and the CIO with Its 6.01X1,000
had already thrown their moral
support behind the UMW chief.
By resolution at its Atlantic
City convention, the CIO termed
Goldsborough's order an attempt
to lmxse "economic slavery" on
the miner.
state college use hog fuel and
sawdust.
CIO Wants More Pay,
Disclaims Strike Threat
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Nov.
21 t.-V) The CIO convention to
day adopted unanimously a reso
lution calling for "substantial"
wage Increases but there was
no definite Indication just how
much ol a wage hike the dele
kates would consider "substan
tial." Walter Reuther, president of
the United Auto Workers, said
In a speech that the "real" earn
ings of American workers in
terms of purchasing power had
been cut 20 per cent since Jan
uary, 1945.
But when questioned later by
reporters he said he did not
mean to imply that 20 per cent
would be the amount of the wage
increase which his auto workers
will demand this winter.
Wintry Wave Retains
Its Grasp on Northwest
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"" A, J, AS ADVERTISED IN
ditch or skidding across the road,
they blocked those following.
With the roadbed blailed and
sanded, the marooned motorists
finally were sent on their way.
Telephone Co. Plans
Building In Roseburg
(Continued from Page One)
county bulldozer crew and rang
ers. Hardship Widespread
Briefly the picture looked like
this as the northwest went into
its fourth day of storm:
British Columbia Cranbrook
reported coal supplies at "des
!erate stage" as deliveries failed
to arrive; government ferry
serving west of Kootenai Lake
sank at Nelson landing from un
known reason; domestic and com
mercial gas supply off for several
hours by storm damage at Vic
toria and plea for 10 per cent cut
in gas consumption made in Van
couver; string of abandoned autos
reported all along east Kootenai
roads.
Seattle Air travel still ham
pered but attempts were being
made to get out south and east
bound flights; trains arriving be
hind schedule; city bus operations
almost normal; public schools re
opened but University of Wash
ington students continuing an
indefinite vacation because of
shortage of coal; repairmen had
restored 1.500 of the city's 8,500
impaired telephones.
Phone Service Disrupted
At nearby Beaconsfield, near
PesMoines, approximately 40
familiei have been without tele
phones, electricity and water
since the storm broke Monday.
Five thousand telephones still
were out of order In Tacoma. At
Lakebay, across the bay from
Tacoma, wireless voice-path serv
ice was initiated to replace
broken-down telephonic communi
cation. Snow continued to fall af a
late hour last night In Spokane
with four inches on the ground.
Busses were maintaining sched
ules but police reported the num
ber of minor traffic accidents re-;
ported was double that of any
day in recent years.
Yakima was blanketed beneath
five inches of snow, Pasco report
ed two and Wenatchi-e reported
ice-covered streets and highways
veiled by snow.
additional, manually operated
equipment now being Installed,
will permit service to some 400
more telephones In Roseburg by
next spring.
Following completion of the
present installation, additional
equipment capable of handling
approximately 1500 more tele
phones will be Installed.
Henwood said that the present
installation of manual equipment,
at an estimated gross cost of
S118.000, is being "pushed ahead"
to meet the unprecedented de
mand for telephone service here.
Average daily calls have soar
ed from 7,058 in October of 1941
before the war to an all-time
high of 10.386 in October of this
year. Daily long distance calls
alone, have jumped from 258 to
920 over the same period.
More than 840 Roseburg fami
lies now are waiting for tele
phones, Henwood added.
"Installation of this additional
equipment is proceeding as rapid
ly as problems of supply will
permit," Henwood declared.
"Basic materials still are critical
ly short and dates of manufacture
and delivery are not too firm."
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Paralysis Hits Soft
Coal Industry of U. S.
(Continued from Page One)
miners walked off jobs at 605
commercial pits in the nation's
leading coal state. The Chesa
peake and Ohio Railroad expect
ed to reduce shifting crews as
soon as all coal is pulled from
sidings.
Pennsylvania All 100 OAn soft
coal miners In western Pennsyl
vania idle. Walkouts spread to
antnraclte fields employing 80,
000 in eastern' Pennsylvania.
Kentucky All the state's 50,
000 UMW miners were idle, clos
ing 2U0 large mines. Approxi
mately 1,000 Progressive Mine
Workers were still on the Job in
four large mines and about 5,000
Independents were working 1,250
small truck mines.
Illinois Ail mines employing
UMW members closed, Idling 20,
000. About 850 Progressive Mine
Workers also did not report for
work. However, other Progres
sive mines operated. The Progres
sives have about 18,000 members
in the state.
Alabama UMW mines In the
southern steel state were down
100 per cent, Idling 20.000. Some
2,000 men kept working at non
union operations.
Maryland 100 per cent walk
out in western Maryland's two
coal-producing counties, normally
employing 2.o00. A spokesman
for one group of miners said they
would be permitted to dig coal
for a miners' hospital and local
schools if fuel supplies ran out.
Other states reporting complete
walkouts, included Ohio, 20.0IX)
miners; Virginia, 16,000; Indiana,
8,000 and New Mexico 1.300.
The nation-wide shutdown of
soft coal choked off the flow of
vital fuel to Industries and homes.
Truman's Aid Advised in
Plan to Prop Labor Code
(Continued from Page One)
will point toward "constructive"
changes.
"I would welcome any bill that
would tend to establish perma
nently the no-strike, no-lockout
agreement which was reached by
labor and management in 1941,"
he added in an interview. "We
should set up the machinery for
peacetui Bargaining wnicn win
make strikes unneressirv."
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Note change in date to accommodate
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GRANTS PASS. Ore.. Nov. 21
(.T Overland motor traffic to-1
tlav was petting back to normal
following the early season snow
fall that struck the Giants Pass
area Wednesday.
Redwood Highway motonlsts
ran Into the most trouble, the
road being closed most of Tues
day night on the California side.
1 here was 18 Inches of snow at
the Siskiyou summit. Two plows
were sent from Grants Pass to
Hayes Hill between here and
Cave Junction to clear the snow
th it had blocked vehicles.
Maintenance officials of the
State Highway Department here
said scores of cars, many with
trailers, tried to make the grade
withnut rh;i'ri Coin" into the
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