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Lewis and UMW Pay Large Contempt Fines
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers paid 1.42 million dollars in contempt fines for defying a 1948 strike order. Judge Goldsborough’s earlier order added 710,000, bringing total penalties to 2.13 million. The payment split included 1.4 million for the union and 20 thousand for Lewis personally, with 60 percent of the total allocated to the District of Columbia government.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Welly Hopkins
Harry M. Hull
U. S. District Court
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Supreme Court
Lewis
T. Alan Goldsborough
Goldsborough
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National Savings and Trust Co
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