Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-04

guardsmen for duty in zones af-
fected by the coal strike.
Ignite coal miners in North
Dakota did not walk out. Orders
received just before midnight last
dent of District No. 27, United Mine
Workers, countermanding previous
strike orders.
U. S. MarghaIs on Job
Attorney General Pal CT directed
all United States marsh2!S to re
port to him 'any concerted action
by any two or more persons, either
employers, employees or others,
which amounts to an agreement to
limit the facilities for transport
ing, producing, supplying, storing
or dealing in coal or to restrict the
supply or distribution of same. or to
exact excessive prices for coal, Or
to aid or to abet in the doing of any
such act"
A resolution authorizing Presl-
dent Wilson to take over the coal
mines and operate them under an
agreement with the miners as to
wages and hours Of labor until the
dispute between the men and the
opera IOIS 10 ciNJ boICIS "f"'
duced in the house by Representa-
tive Baer. of North Dakota.
The Situation Monday
Developments in the coal strike
Monday were:
Coal shipping operations sare tenn
porarily suspended by the shipping
board because of the coal St e.
With the exception of twenty-five
ships partly loaded, no cargoes of
coal will leave this country at pres
emit, it was announced.
Samuel Gompers declares that he
will use his best efforts to bring
about a satisfactory settlement Of
the strike of soft coal miners" He
refused to state whether he already
has taken steps to hel pend the
strike or to discuss hisp lanS.
Attorney General Palmer has in
formed coal miners who protested
against the strike injunction that the
government stod ready ito do every
thin; in it's power to facilitated an in
1uiry into the merits of the con-
troversy, but in the meantime the
law must be enforced and combtna-
tons to. ,sto pproduction cannot be
tolerated.
Mr.. Palmer's statement, made in
reply to a telegram from the union
local at Glencoe, Ohio. to President
Wilson, was taken to indicate no at
tempt would be made by the govern
ment to settle the wage controversy
until the strike was called off.
Ut fiOiD lc, rsc,l 7Ir Ni o.
that the coal strike was 100 per cent
effective
Reports from important districts
according to the miners leaders,
showed no decrease from the number
of men out Saturday, the first, day
of the strike. The operators had
counted on a large number returnin
today, believing many who failed to
report Saturday were observing a
religious holiday rather than strib-
ing. Most of the operators, however,
refused to make any estimate of the
number of strikers in their respec-
tive districts.
A sharp alignment appeared to be
drawn between union and non-union
miners, and indications were that de-
spite union officials claim. practical
ly all non-union men were at work.
On this basis the number of strikers
would be close to 100000.
Government officials continued to
watch sharply for any radical tend
encies on the part of the strikers,
but no disorders were reported.
More tnan 400 non-union mines in
West Virginia are running on full
time and plans are on foot for in
creased production.
Union leaders claim the strike is
100 per cent effective in Illinois, and
that rs per cent of the men are out
in the Cambria county district in
Pennsylvania. The great Berwind
mines il the Windber coal field,
however, were working with practt-
cally a full force. The Colver and
ReVloc fields were not seriously af-
tected and the house coal mining in
dustry in JohnstoWn was operating
under a very Slight handicap. In
Somerset county only seven mines
are idle and only 700 of the $4,000
employed in the county are on strike
The Missouri fields still are COM
pletely tied up.
No plans have been made by the
operators for the opening of the
mines with imported labor, and the
old men who return to work are to
be treated as though they never had
laid down their tools, according to
a statement given out by Thomas T
Brewster chairman of the coal oper-
ators scale committee. No miner
will be disseminated against, he said
To date no disorders of any char
acter have been reported to Washing
ton.
Agents of the department of jus
tee are busy in all coal regions aa
well as in every large city in the
country watching for any evidence of
COnSpiracX on the nart of Mnrl,ers :