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Harry Truman: “The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to maintain customary working conditions in the mines and…”

On the recordJuly 18, 1946
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to maintain customary working conditions in the mines and customary procedures for the adjustment of workers' grievances
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Executive Order 9758—Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to Take Possession of and to Operate Certain Coal Mines

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