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yh =~} co 13 0 =o. bine ~ = ~ ~ For Iron Ore Miners of Alabama By LOUIS STARK { By Cable to Tar NEW Yori Tuas, WASHINGTON, March 27—Un- coal-mining industry, which has derground travel for tron ore min-) two suits affecting “portal-to-por- ers constitutes working time and|*# tone A Contract providing F | ‘portai-to-po “pay fer coa must be paid for unde © Fair mines ts before the National War| Labor Standards Act, th Supreme . Ahr Raord far anna! [resi today. Philip Murray, president of the! High Court Uphold Portal Pay | owe see AOE BP PlOVal, | Justice Frank Murphy, writing|CIO, which joined with the miners the majority opinion in the case of|in initiating the iron ore case in three Alabama iron mining compa-|1940, hailed today’s decision as re- nies, upheld rulings by two lower flecting “a great and epochal vic- | courts favoring pay on a portal-to- tory for underground miners who ‘ portal basia. A sharp dissent was|have fought for many years to es- , 4) l- voiced by Chief Justice Harlan F./tabliah the Principle of payment t Stone and Justice Owen J. Rob-|for underground work, including ‘2 erts, the latter writing the opinion. / travel time.” Justices Felix Frankfurter and _frampton Harris of Bitming- Robert H. Jackson, who were partinam, <Ala., who represented the of the seven-man majority, wrote!/iron minera in the and who is — concurring opinions. also counsel for eneigunited Mine The decision may be construed - - ea, , as a ‘PFEteEM applying to the| Continued on Page Fifteen = | sor Thal NOP REC RbDwD - ~ ) ” TNJEARE 87 APR 181944 This is a clip re from page / of the’ Hew York Times for wade AE [0d Clipped at tis Seat or government. ae f=