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Coal Contract Scrutinized

WASHINGTON, October 25--The Justice Department started an intensive scrutiny today of the government's coal contract which John L. Lewis says will be void next Friday unless Interior Secretary Krug starts talking pay raises.

Also, implications of an election-eve walkout of 400,000 coal miners came up at the President's cabinet meeting and Lewis' mine workers journal proclaimed: pay controls are doomed.

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