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Coal Miners
To Decide on
Strike Tuesday
Advance in Wages Must Be
Made Retroactive to Avert
Walk-Out, Is the Warn
ing GrVen to Operators
170,000 Men Affected
Sub-Committee in Parley
Over Pay Lose Hope of
an Early Settlement
The threatened strike of anthracite
coal miners came a step nearer reality
yesterday when the general scale com?
mittee served notice on operators that
a final decision on a walkout would he
made on Tuesday. The committee did
not term thc possible action of thc men
a strike, but cierely referred to it as
?'a suspension of work" pending the
outcome of the negotiations for a new
wage gcalc.
The immediate danger of the strike
was made manifest in yesterday's meet?
ing of the scale committee. The men
were in session for three hours and
were almost unanimous in the belief
that the miners should quit work when
their present agreement with the opera?
tors expires on March 31 unless what
ever wage scale agreed upon is retro?
active. More than 170.000 mine work?
ers will be affected by the committee's
final decision.
Hasty Action Combated
There might have been final action
on the question of a strike yesterday
by the committeemen had not offieials
of the miners' union urged them not to
be "too hasty" in deciding the question.
It was decided to wait until Tuesday in
the hope that in the mean time some
definite action will be taken toward an
award to the bituminous workers.
Thomas Kennedy, president of District
7, I'nited Mine Workers, presided at
the meeting.
When the ultimatum of the scale
committee was announced at the meet?
ing of the sub-commiitee of miners
and operators appointed to negotiate a j
new wage scale the operators would j
make no comment upon it. Mine own- !
ers, it is understood, are solid in their j
epposition to the entering into of any ,
agreement with the workers to make I
the award retroactive if the men re- j
main at work.
"If we give a wage advance to them," !
one of them said yesterday, "we will
have to raise the price of coal Jo grant j
it. And we can't make the price of coal
retroactive."
Members of the sub-committee said
yesterday that they had abandoned all
hope of reaching an agreement on the
award by April 1. Their progress, it
was said. has been slow to date and
held up by much lengthy argument.
Important Problems Ignored
Questions of wage increase, shorter
hours aiui recognition of the union
have scarcely been touched on yet, and
tho Rub-commktee is waiting for a de?
cision in thc bituminous situation be?
fore launching fully mto debate on
these problem:-.
"We will wait till Tuesday for the
bituminous award," Philip Murray, in?
ternational vice-president of the United
Mine Workers, said last night. "If
nothing comes out of Washington by
that time it will be up to us to make
our own contract and forget about the
soft coal situation."
Operators are planning to insist that
no alteration be made in the working
hours for the anthracite industry, say?
ing that change of working schedules
would mean more overhead charges and
in other ways affect the cost of pro?
duction.
At the close of yesterday's session
the subcommittee issued the following
.:.; tement:
"The subcommittee of anthracite
opi ratore and miners met to-day and
continued the consideration of thc
mass of tigures presented by the miners
covering the increase in the cost of
living and its relation to the request j
of the miners for increase in wages.
a m m ^
T?4? - ?H.na"' representatives argued
the figures presented by them to Bub
stantiate their claim for higher wages."
Socialists Will Parade
1,1 Effort to Free Debs
Demonstration in Washington,
Wlth Plea to Wilson for Am?
nesty, Planned April 13
CHICAGO March 20.-A "spectacular
but digmfied" effort to obtain the re?
lease of Eugene V. Debs from the At?
lanta penitentiary will be made in
Washington on April 13, National So?
cialist Headquarters here announced
to-day.
Debs, who probably will be the next
bociahst Presidential candidate, was
convicted under the. espionage act and
put "into the prison April 13, 1919.
Delegations of socialists and radicals
fro,5' all parts of the country will go
to Washington on special trains and
march up Pennsylvania Avenue carrying
pincards and headed by a brass band
according to the plan.
The procession will go to the White
House, wher? it is planned to have a
pre-arranged conference with the Presi?
dent. General amnesty will be asked
for all socialists and radicals confined
under prison sentence under espionage
act convictions.
The committee which will address the
President probably will include Morris
Hillquit, of New York; J. H. Maurer,
head of the Pennsylvania Federation
of Labor; Alfernon Lee, New York So?
cialist alderman, and Rabbi Judah
Magnes, of New York.
Prosecution of
Coal Men May
Tie Up Mines
Shut-Down of Shafts April
1 Is a Possibility Unless
Conferences, Said To Be
Ulegal, Adopt New Scale
U. S. Held Inconsistent
Statement Asserts Presi?
dent Has Urged Idea
of Collective Bargaining
INDIANAPOLIS, March 20.?Possi?
bility of another tie-up of the nation's
coal industry, beginning April 1, was
declared to cxist as a result of the
government'* prosecution of operators
and miners for alleged violation of the
Lever fuel control act, in a statement
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Indianapolis. Mr. Logsdon is one of
five coal operators arrested to-day by
Federal officials and one of 125 men
operators and miners indicted bv a'
Federal grand jury here for alleged
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conspiracy to enhance the price of I
coal.
Mr- Lodsdon's statement decjarcs
that, according to information received
by the operators, the government is
proceeding on the hypothesis that joint
wage conferences are and have been i
Ulegal, and that this theory forms thc
basis for a part at least of the charges
against the coal men. If this is true,
he said, it is probable that conferences ''
to estabhshe a new wage scale, effective !
April 1, will be postponed until after
that date and possibly indefinitely, and '?
that miners will refuse to work after ;
April 1, when tho present contract
expireB, unless a new scale is acreed
upon.
Thc statement asserts that the gov
ernment's action is inconsistent with' a
statement given out by President Wil?
son yesterday, when he urged operators
and miners to get together under the
majority report of the commission
which investigated the coal situation.
The President. in this statement, in
effect prave sanction to the idea of col
lective bargaining in the coal industrv,
Mr. Logsdon said.
Federal officials to-night asserted
that they had authorized no statement
art to the theory on which the govern
ment is proceeding in its prosecution
of the miners and operators and de?
clared they would not divulge the
charges against those indicted until all
of them have been arrested.
Besides Mr. Logsdon, those arrested
to-day were George A. Vandyke, B. E.
Neal and W. H. Tobin, of Indianapolis,
and William Zeller, of Brazil, Ind. Mr.
Logsdon and Mr. Zeller surrendered to
the officers, while capiases were served
on the others. Carl U. Fletcher, of
Indianapolis, surrendered to the United
States marshal yesterday. Each of the
operators furnished bond for $10,000
and was released pending arraignment
on May 4.
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Legislature Will Get
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Sub ? Committees Representing'
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