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Price Boost Order Prepared for Coal Operators
Washington wage board prepared a price boost order to cover the $1.60 daily wage increase won by John L. Lewis United Mine Workers. Soft coal operators seek 25 to 50 cents per ton. hard coal operators offered no estimate. About 500 contracts affected. 4,300,000 state and local workers exempted from the freeze. An outside chance of approval for a catch-up formula to widen wage hikes postwar. In Murray Utah a police officer vowed to pursue sheep rustlers claiming the animals were his.
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Washington
Michael V. DiSalle
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
Wage Stabilization Board
Philip Murray
CIO
United Steel Workers