CANADIAN COAL
United Mine Workers' union has
renewed its effort to force the
Spokane school board to feed the
Spokane school furnaces with coal
mined in Washington state, rather
than with Canadian coal.
By a motion filed in the state
supreme court late Tuesday, the
union seeks to set aside the recent
order of Superior Judge Joseph B.
Lindsley suspending an injunction
the judge granted the union to require the board to use Washington
coal.
The high court will hear arguments on the motion December 17.
Attorney D. B. Heil, representing
the school board, and R. W. Nuzum,
representing the Dave Rich Fuel
company, will resist the motion.
The Rich company holds a contract for sale of more than 4000
tons of Canadian coal to the school board.
Judge Lindsley recently granted
an injunction prohibiting the
school board from buying out of
state mined coal, but suspended the
injunction pending appeal to the
supreme court. The school board
contracted for the Canadian coal
when Rich underbid dealers proposing to furnish Washington coal
under terms of a state law requiring use of state-mined fuel in public buildings.
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