The Key West Citizen

JUDGE GOLDSBOROUGH DEFERS IMPOSING OF SENTENCE TILL TOMORROW MORNING

(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers of America, of which he is president, were found guilty today by Judge T. Allan Goldsborough, presiding in federal court here, of contempt of court because they disregarded a restraining order issued by the court November 13, which provided that they not declare a strike in the country's soft-coal mines.

Judge Goldsborough deferred sentence until tomorrow morning.

The court admitted into the evidence, against protests by Lewis' attorneys, remarks Lewis made in a news reel device last May 29, in which he said that disputes in the coal mines had been settled for as long as the government maintained control of the mines.

To remarks by Lewis' attorneys that the statement should be excluded by the court, Judge Goldsborough asked if Lewis denied having made the statement, to which the attorneys replied that he did not.

After the rendition of the verdict, Lewis addressed the court. He reviewed actions by courts in labor injunction cases that went back as far as 1912. He asserted that he and the members of the United Mine Workers of America were being deprived of their constitutional rights by being adjudged in contempt of court.

Authorities in this city reported that they had only a 20-day supply of coal, and news from Denver said that city was without coal and that wood was being burned to keep houses warm. A dispatch from Lansing, Mich., said public schools in that city had been closed for three weeks because of coal shortages. Fourteen thousand students attend the schools.

The White House disclosed that shortly after the eightieth congress convenes on January 3, the President will send a message to congress advocating the outlawing of strikes in industries where their operation is essential to the public welfare.