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Intervention on the part of the Roosevelt administration and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins resulted in a settlement being reached on 19 July, the strike's 109th day. The key issue was union security, which Harlan officials conceded. Operators recognized the UMW as sole bargaining agent for all employees, and strikers were immediately rehired. The agreement covered forty-eight hundred workers at twenty-four mines. The 1939 agreement, aided by the wartime coal boom, ended the ten-year struggle in Harlan County and brought a new balance of power in the county.
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