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T o ProsecuteFor InducingMine Striket;;nishr• C‘cor UMRUS O Apnl ,f-The first federal prosecution infnarSOhio under the Smith Connaily La- f:i.bar Dispute Act developed todav d j ixi indictment of eight. Belmont 1 county miners, on charges of *niducmg a strike at. two governrnurit-operated coal mines A special federal grand jury re : turned indictments against eight .employes of the M A Hanna Coal company s Dun Glen and Pmev Fork.? mines m what Ray O Don nell assistant district U S prosecuting atturnev said was the first ^ Ohio case under the act althoughthe third major action nationally Th* government took mcr the mines bv presidential order lastVox 1The stnki involved about yt)0 men at the two mines last Dec IS 'ind 19 in protest against \ hat unionists claimed was n companv practice o£ lvirig them off durmg the v eek and requiring Sundav work at regular pav Ihev claimed contracts for six consecutivedavlt;; of pmplovmentAttv Gen Biddle said in Wash ington lhaL at the time of the strike the issue was being n^gotia? ed between the Dniled Mine Workers and the government Thp mat ter was decidpd m favor of the ; miners in Januarv EidJJe said th»»' mor the «t**.ke endedBiddle said that although the r‘ t vjn involved m i n ** mechanics,throughout the nation Dun Glen and Pinev Fork were thr onlv pitsj v1 here strifes developed ove- thrjnntlf rIndicted specificallv for inlpr-fer^ncc with government operation of coal mines’ were Thomas Vit Tr Rush'll \\ Gatchel Michael A Cirhon Toiv Doncmrk Wins jo w Burger r ^ancis E reU c Dawrcnc'- E Mcdlrv and Joc,,ph P Fihppi th'' latter bran of tr.e Fork unon Joral The justice d^nrm'm^nt m Washington said *h° ' others woffjciaR or ^o' I MU loraRO Dor.n'dJ said \ alter v^s \n* oMv Dun G^n cmplov*’ t^h^rs jvnng Pn*1* Fork n*m w 0-0accused of going 1i Psn°v For* da - after Dun Glpn jrp^fXc and urging Pnc\ rolt; sworllt;n to qtiif The PImrT, - n~kV stoppage de-voTop^d D^r ^Adniph Par f-cn d str \ MW fVCe e rjr*-- ^ r»--j1 *4^n grn-'d irx a-1 on
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Zanesville Times Recorder
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Fri, Apr 14, 1944
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