Arizona republican., 1919-12-16
OPERATE FOUR
 MINES IN FIvE
 SU. 5. REPORT
Eighty Per Cent of Striking Miners Have Resumed Work Advices Indicate Coal Bans Gradually Be- ing Lifted - Statements By Operators Differ
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 15 - Restric- tions on the consumption of bitumin- ous coal continued to go by the board today, as the railroad administration, now in charge of the distribution of supplies, received reports indicating that so per cent of the striking miners had returned to work Orders were issued by Director General Hines al- lowing bunker coal to he supplied 10 foreign owned vessels in American harbors whenever the local supply is sufficient to fill the requirements of coastwise and American owned ships. Foreign vessels had their coal supply shut off early in the coal crisis.
 Senatorial investigation of the strike settlement proposal offered by the government and accepted by the min CTS was temporarily halted today while Chairman Frelinghuysen and members of the Investigating sub committee considered the policy to be adopted. It was said after a long executive ses- sion that the committee had not de- cided as to whether it would formally demand documents in the possession of pr. H. A. Garfield former fuel ad- ministrator, who resigned because Of i'A- NAotA9i VtAiACiiL " 1Lll Aiit SGAA4tI1itlll proposals. or as to whether Attorney General Palmer and other officials would be called
 The committee, however, decided to resume hearings and summoned R. B. Morris, one of the engineers of the fuel administration, to furnish the statistics on which Dr. Garfield based his suggestion that a 14 per cent in- crsa1 ca in, I,a and paid out of the operators profits without raising prices of coal At torney General Palmer, who signified last week that he would appear if the committee permitted him, left Wash ington tonight for the middle west tC continue the governments campaign 1 against high prices and increased cos of living through conferences witt state and federal officials He vii he in Chicago tomorrow and iron 1 here expects to go to Little Rock anC Oklahoma City.
 1 Operators Report Small Return Coal operators of the central com. | petitive field in a statement tonight declared miners in the various field. were returning to work slowly. No more than 40 per cent of the men havt returned in the central Pennsylvania l fields, one of the largest in the coun, 1 try, the statement said, and a yer, small percentage have returned in thu southwestern fields. Indiana reported practically all of the men back at work while in Illinois, it was estimated tha ! less than 10 per cent of the striker have returned in the Franklin count, ! field The statement follows.
 According to the best information
 obtainable by this committee at si
 D. m. today the situation in the variou
 fields is as follows:
 Tn the central Pennsylvania field
 one of the largest in the country, no over 40 per cent of the men on strik
 have returned. Reports from tn southwestern fields, embracing Miss ouri,s Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma indicate a very small percentage c men returning to work. In the field of Ohio and western Pennsylvani
 from 50 to 60 per cent of the men ar back.
 L Indiana makes the best showing with practically all of the men back.
 Tn Iowa, about 50 per cent of tn miners have returned.
 Tn Illinois less than 10 per cent C 1 the men who went on strike have re
 turned in the Franklin county fielC
 while the Saline and Williamson field
 report a slightly greater percentage (
 men back. In the Fulton, Peoria an
 northern Illinois fields, about 10 pc
 cent of the men have returned. Thes
 are the principal fields of Illinois"