The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-31
25O, 900 MEN AFFECTED
 BY COAL STRIKE
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CContinued from Page One) - The International Executive Board between operators and miners based on instructions issued by the United Mine Workers of America today will continue from April 1, 1910 until Mar. 3l 1912. An increase of five cents a ton on inch and a quarter lump coal must be demanded in western Penn sylvania, Hooking, the Easing district, of Ohio, and block and bituminous dis tr1cts of Indiana, and an increase of cents ton in the Indiana biturninous district. Lewis, while denying there will be national suspension of work, says Pennsylvania and Illinois fields will be tied up, affecting 1900 men fields in the country. He believes the Ohio situation will be adjusted without a strike.
 Pittsburg. March s1-A joint confer ence of miners and operators of the Pittsburg district will be held here the first part of next week to anego- t1afe a new wage scale in accordance with the recommendations made at the Cincinnati convention.
 meeting of the operators has been the joint conference will be discuss ed. Tomorrow is holiday among the miners and the inauguration of the eight hour day will be celebrated throughout the district Forty thou sand miners are affected.
 The miners, however, will suspend OkeSIdLIO1lS cdL H1IQnlSnL LOn1R1TE D6nQ1nGy the settlement. Officials on both sides declare that the men will likely be out week Or two.
 President Francis Feehan, Of the district, said today that some of the operators had expressed a willingness to sign the miners wage scale. He neearea ,9sf e fed ehae the n te PoWdsr Ter question would be compelled to furnish miners the new explosive at the same cost as the black powder. He also said f11o in %I,,o 11 s1ve is used, a run of the mine rate of 61.39 cents per ton must be paid while in other mines the rate demand ed will be 95 cents for. coal passing over a 1 1-4 inch screen. The present run of mine rate is BY cents a ton
 Several operators today declared between the miners and operators thev do not expect trouble in making an agreement.
 Chicago, March 31.-A sharp ad- vance in the price of coal is expected to be the immediate result of the fields which will begin tomorrow
 Meanwhile both operators and min CTS in Illinois are bending their ef- forts to adjust the existing difficulties
 SeventX-fve thousand miners will quit work in Illinois tonight.
 The 12,0OO miners in Kansas have fciais to strike tomorrow and all will go out.
 In Iowa a Joint conference of min CTS and operators is still trying to avert strike. The miners demand an increase of 10 cents ton.
 number of Illinois concerns which operate their own coal mines are seeking permission to continue the mines at work on condition that they use all the coal themselves. The Western Brick Company, at Danville and the Hedelier Glass Plant at La Sale, have been granted this permis- sion.
 The Bunsen Coal Company, which controls most of the mines in the Danville sub-district and is itself own ed by the Illinois Steel Company to- day applied for the same permission The officers told the miners officials close down unless the Bunsen Com pany were permitted to operate it's mine. The company agreed to payl whatever the new scale may be be- ginning April 1.
 Simultaneously the steel company received an offer from a non-union West Virginia coal concern to supply all the coal needed on a longtime contract. If the Bunsen Company is denied the permission it is believed cept the West Virginia offer and close the Bunsen mines.
 Bay City, O., March 31.-At mid district will quit work pending a set 1 clement of the questions in which the conference failed.
 Although the Ohio miners accept ed the five per cent. raise in pick | and 5.55 per cent. raise in day |