The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-12-12
LOADING COAL )
AS SOON AS DUG.
Majority Of Illinois Mines, as
Well as in Other States,
In Operation.
SIX WEEKS STRIKE ENDS

hNio VI Ainerica wednesday night,
were mailed this morning to 1000
localsr They explain the action of the
general committee OF arganization
in accepting the preside ~ aoposal as
basis for settlement q strike and
urge return to the mi = sth the least
possible delay in ordg e the public's
coal needs may be 4 s peedily.
Ears, Cars Ready Z Loaded.
hoisted from the a ity OF mines IN
Illinois today for ~ 1rst time in six
weeks reports rssss 1 at heada,,arters
Of stath the United NJ orkers union here
strikers, who returned to work yes
Ierday. mad cleared away most of the
debris from the mines so that coal
could actually be dug. AS soon as ii
was brought to the surface the coal was
loaded on cars waiting at the mines.
Inc reports at union headquarters
state most of the miners in the state
nave nave gone back to work. A few of
the strikers are still out, however.
These are the radicals" union leaders
say. who they believe will also have
returned by the first OF next week. The
recalcitrants. the reports state, are in
the Peoria and southern fields.
Kansas Situation.
Pittsburg. Kas.. Dec. 12.-What the
Kansas miners will do about returning
to work, whether with the soldiers and
volunteer workers at the mines, or
alone, will be decided here today when
Alex Howat, president of District No.
IA, Governor Henry Allen, Phil Gal
lery, attorney for the miners and
Others OF the miners organization and
associates OF Governor Allen VIII meet.
Howat telegraphed late yesterday to
postpone action until he arrived this
morning.
Meantime the volunteers are not
sitting idle waiting for the settlement.
Yesterdays production was buster"
and plans today are expected to exceed
1t, II possible. Some OF the volunteers
returned home last night, but the great
majority are still here.
20 Per Cent. At Terre Haute..
Terre Haute, Ind. d.-ApproXimately 20
per cent. of the 5000 miners of the
Terre Haute field went to the mines
today, according to railroad officials
operating miners specials
a big mass meeting of miners will
be held here this afternoon at which
ED. Stewart president. and VIM.
Mitch, secretary of the Indiana mine
workers, will explain the action of the
international officers OF the union in
accepting President Wilson'S proposal
at the indianapolis conference eWd-
nesday.
IsfcitnciL fiid' All miners in this field
went to work to-day and it is said 5000
tons of coal will be hoisted before night
in'the local mines, which include three
of the largest in the world.
Peoria stubborn.
Peoria, ILL.,, Dec. 12.-More than 5000
miners employed in the Peoria sub
division refused to return to work to-
day,
The miners held a mass meeting last
night at which several alleged radical
leaders attempted to place the men on
record as repudiating the settlement of
the strike at indianapolis. The men re-
fused to consider a resolution offered
during the meeting but expressed
themselves as opposed to the terms of
the settlement and refused to enter the
mines today.
Moral Advantage.
Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 12.-Rapid re-
storatiOn of conditions approXimating
normal are expected by officials of the
United Mine Workers as q result of
letters, in the nature of an appeal for
the resumption of work, mailed today
to all district and local unions of the
organization.
Fifty Per Cent Normal in Ohio
Cleveland. O., Dec. t2.-Early reports
received from the mines of Ohio today
indicated that a production of so per
cent normal would be reached by night
fall, cutting on quantity scale began
last month and leaders and tipple men
reported in large numbers at the mines
today.
Superstitious About Friday.
Pittsburgh Pa, Dec. 12-Sevcf Il
thousand men went to work in the mines
in the central Pennsylvania fields to
day, Many of the miners refused to
return because of the superstition
about Friday.
When the officials of the Pennsylva-
mia Coal & Coke corporation, at Patton,
failed to open the workings this morn
ing. the men became angry and sent
kilograms of protest to Secretary of
Labor Wilson and Acting President
John l.. Lewis. of the mine workers
union, officials said their mines would
open Monday.