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May 26, 1943

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WLB Wins New Coal Talks; Grants Gains, Bars $2 Rise; Union Accepts Remanding of 'Portal' and Some Other Issues and Will Meet the Operators Again Today WLB RULING BRINGS NEW COAL PARLEYS

By Louis Starkspecial To the New York Times

WLB denies $2 rise, Sunday double pay and guaranteed 52-wk work yr, approves increased vacation allowance and occupational expenses; remands portal-to-portal pay and 6-day wk back to direct negotiations; recommends comm of experts be set up to work with Ickes on some of problems; directs parties to submit agreement within 15 days and to continue output under terms of expired contract; miners and operators reaction favorable; Northern and Southern Appalachian operators to conf for 1st time in 2 yrs; Lewis conf with his assocs; negotiations to be resumed

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