Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-10-26
u. 5. MAY SEIZE
MINES AND DRAFT
WORKERS SOON
Garfield Indicates Government
Will Use Force.
END OF STRIKE NEAR
END OF STRIKE NEAR
Unless Men Return to Work Fuel Ad-
ministrator May Refuse to Approve
Proposed Wage Advance-Sends
Telegram to Miners and
Operators.

JOler, ILL.,, OCT. 19.-Erank Earring
ton, president of District No. II, Union
Mine Workers of Illinois, issued the
following official statement: Reports
indicate that the men are beginning to
ping work to force Doctor Garfield
more promptly on the proposed wage
increase and they are gradually return
ing to work, with every prospect that
by Monday all men will be back to
work.
U. S. May Seize Mines.
Washington, Oct. 1S.-Uniess Illi-
nois striking coal miners return at
once Fuel Administrator Harry A.
Garfield may refuse to approve the
proposed wage advance.
Furthermore, he will resort to dras-
tic measures to keep the mines going.
What steps would be taken is not
stated. The presumption is that the
mine yabor would be Communicated by
the government and troops employed
to enforce the orders.
eff the need arises, shall act" said
Mr.. Garfield. There are certain
things that the government can do in
times of war which it could not do in
times of peace"
The telegram sent to miners and
operators in the Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio districts, where strikes have Oc-
Cured, follows:
American citizens engaged in the
mining of coal, whether operators or
miners, are, for the most part, mind
full of the fact that the burden rests
upon them to produce the coal needed
without interruption.
But there are evidently some who
fail to understand the gravity of the
situation and who do not hesitate to
excite strikes at the present time as
means of forcing the government to
at once decide whether the wage in
crease agreed at the meetings recently
held at Washington by the operators
and miners of the central district
should justly be covered by an adj
vance in the prices fixed by the presi-
dent.
Warns Against Pressure.
'The matter has been submitted to
me and all concerned are expected
to cooperate. / am giving immediate
and close attention to the question and
hope to reach a decision at an early
date.
"The only circumstance within my
control which will delay that decision
will be the violation of the spirit OF
the arrangement between the operat-
ors and miners, which was that I'M
der no circumstances should the pro-
duction of coal in the United States
at the present time be allowed to dimin-
ish.
eff either the operators or miners
attempt to bring pressure upon me to
reach a decision shall postpone it and
use whatever powers are necessary TO
compel the production Of coal to meet
the country'S needs"
White Goes to Indianapolis.
Washington, Oct. 49,. 2. White,
president of the United Mine Workers
of America and adviser of the national
fuel administrator, FASTENED to Indian
apolis to attempt to induce the miners
in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to re-
sung work.
Strike of $4,000 Called OFF.
Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 19.--The
strike of $4,000 coal miners in the
southwestern district, embracing Mis-
souri,. Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkan-
sas. which was to have begun Friday
morning, has been deferred pending
negotiations between representatives OF
the Southwestern Coal Operators as
ISOLATION and the men.
800 Miners Return to Work.
Danville, Ill.,, Oct. 2O.-Thirty-one
hundred employees of coal mines in
the Clinton and Jackson districts re-
turned to work These mines produce
465 cars of coal day.
Harrington Warns Leaders.
Springfield, H., Oct. 20.-Threats OF
drastic action against miners local
unions were made by Frank Earring
ton. Illinois president of the United
Mine Workers, in an effort to get the
men back to work and break the fuel
famine confronting the entire middle
West. Mr.. Harrington sent kilograms
RI heads of all the locals, declaring
tho+ their charters would be revoked
If the men were not back at work by
next Monday.