On May 13, the Salt Lake City Tribune newspaper reported that the C. W. Mining Company had settled its defamation lawsuit against the United Mine Workers Union of America and the Socialist Workers Party newspaper, The Militant. The Militant had run 54 articles over the past three years about a labor dispute in a Utah coal mine. The owners of the coal mine, and the company union, had filed a federal defamation lawsuit. On May 1, U.S. District Court Judge Dee Benson had refused to release The Militant from the lawsuit, but since then, the case has been dropped, and the United Mine Workers Association will not try to organize that mine. IAUWU v UMWA, 2:04-cv-901.