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r Salem, Oregon, "Thursday, October 4, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL" Section 1 Page 13 Lewis Jumps Gun in Wage Boost Report Mine Owners Balk Over Vacation Pay, Hold Up Signing . Br NORMAN WALKER CINCINNATI UV-John L. Lewis an embarrassed man today he announced a new wage deal to his United Mine Workers conven tion only to have the mine owners' representative refuse to sign it. Lewis told his 3,000 convention delegates assembled here that the UMW he heads had initialed aeon tract agreement calling for a $2.40 daily boost in wages and other benefits. Delegates cheered and eventual ly ratified the deal after some debate. But a scheduled signing of the new wage pact a few hours later failed to come off. It developed that Edward G. Fox, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Assn. who had penetrated a close fog over Cin cinnati in a private plane to come here to sign a contract, als left .through the haze, without putting his signature to the final deal. Fox returned to rinsDurgn ior a meeting with BCOA directors. He said the - purpose of the ses sion was to clarify an issue that developed over an additional $40 annual vacation pay. Fox said the chief question arose over whether the $40 should be paid separately at the start of the Christmas vacation period or be covered in a total lump sum of sio at tne siart oi me regular vacation period in the summer. Fox said UMW officials had un derstood a lump payment was to be made at the beginning of the summer vacation.' He said there was no question that the total va cation payment' would be $180. Few expected the Impasse would last long. The significance of the situation was that Fox recently drafted from a labor role In the anthracite or hard coal phase of the coal business had apparently reached a misunder standing with Lewis. Fox just a few weeks ago took over the main labor bargaining job for the soft coal industry as president of BCOA, which repre sents principal northern coal mines as well as mines owned by the steel industry and utility concerns, known as "captive" mines. ' The UMW delegates cheered yesterday when Lewis and other UMW officials related that the new wage agreement called for $1.20 daily wage boost effective Oct. 1. dIiis an additional 80-cent daily increase effective next April 1, or a total of $2 a aay. This would boost the basic daily wage for miners from $20,25 now to $22.25. ' The additional tents per day, ai estimated by the union, appar ently would come from the extra vacation and holiday 'revisions, plus overtime and double time for Sundav provisions.. These were mcified in the prospective agree ment approved by the union con vention. ' Lewis, before his breakup with Fox, had hailed the tentative agreement as a con'muation ot forward-looking labor relations in the coal industry that has pro duced six years of peace, without maior strikes and without govern ment interference in coal labor re lations. Death Claims Movie 'Heavy' Bancroft, 74 SANTA MONICA. Calif. W George Bancroft, one of the rough est and toughest of Hollywood's "heavies," died in a hospital Tues day after an illness ot tnree weeks. He was 74. Bancroft was an actor most of pis life. Even when he served for many years in the Navy he set up portable stages on deck and served as the impressario of all manner of programs, usir.g Navy went. He went to sea as a t-en-ager an merchant ships, later joined me Navy and was a gunner aboard the cruiser Baltimore in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. In 1900 when the USS Oregon struck a submerged rock off the China coast, Bancroft swam be neath the hull of the vessel to learn the extent of the dam- ace. For this feat of daring and skill he received an appointment to Annapolis, but when he found restrictions there too confining he resinned and headed for Broadway. For 15 years he played impor- iant roles in many siiccessiui shows, and in 1922 launched his movie career. He became lamou: 'or his rueeed characterization: nd for 20 years was one of Holly woods busiest actors. He nlavnt in "Tho PonV Ex Press," "Underworld." "The won "I Wall Street." "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," "Submarine Patrol, 'nd mmv others. His last movie whutung in Dixie, was maoe in 1942. Bancroft was born in Philadel Phia, and was married in 1913 ir Buffalo, N.Y.. to Edna Brothers. n actress. Three years later he was wed to Octavia Broske, musi cal comedy star, who survives him. 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