The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-11
MINERS WILL COMPLY WITH
 COURT ORDER
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tNDntlnueQ From PaSe one.J Officials of the American Fedora ] ton of Labor showed surprise but ] would not comment.
 Some administration officers said l the miners action had put the issue 1 squarely up 10 the coal operators. ! Representativ of the operators here,
 however, had no statement to make, 1 explaining that any pronounceent
 would come from Thomas T. Brew 1 ster, of St. Louis head of the scale l committee.
 l Despite the announcement by union | leaders that the strike would be call i ed off, the railroad administration l coal distributing organization will 1 continue to function until majority | of the strikers return to work off 1 cials of the central coal committee 1 said explaining that SC far as the 1 work of the distribution organiza- i tion was concerned, the strike would 1 not have ended until something like normal production had been restor- 1 ed.
 Officials gave the first intimatfon l of the reserve coal stocks after hear ! ing of the announcement by the
 miners officials. Director General
 Hines estimated that the coal held ! O4ANACI Su pei N494O1l O4 LIIS CIllLIdl COsLl 1 commission aggregate about 15,OOO,- 1 coo tons.
 The general committee, composed l of international officers, district presi- 1 dents and members of the executive 1 board and scale committee, reached l it's decision at 4:10 this morning and 1 adjourned five minutes later to recon 1 yene at o'clock this afternoon. :'Gentlemen, we will comply with 1 the mandate of the court. We do i it under protest. We are Americans . We cannot fight our government. i That is alI'
 i This was the statement of John L. i Lewis, acting president of the Mine i Workers, announcing the decision, ] and other members of the conference ! apparently worn out by their long | hours of discussion declined to add 10 1 the statement of their chief and soon dispersed.
 i When the order, calling off the
 strike. will be drafted could not be learned early today, but, under the
 order of Judge Anderson, it must be submitted to the court for his ap- proval at 10 o'clock this morning and be on it's way to the membership by
 six o'clock this evening. So far as 1 could be learned no committee was appointed at the conference to write the order.
 During the day approaches to the entrances of the conference hall. were
 carefully guarded by a sergeant-at- arms and during recesses a man re- mained on guard in the hall, but in the later hours Of the conference the
 ergaant-at-arms disappeared.
 The speeches at times were impas- sionel and voices from the hall rose above the hubbub of the hotel, in which the conference was held but only a word now and then was dis tinguishable. It is understood that all phases of the question were argued and the effect various actions might have on the organization en- tered into the discussion, but accord ing to members not a vote was taken on any subject until the action today
 was decided upon.
 Shortly before the conference ad- 1 journed, President Lewis and William Green, secretary-t treasurer, held Q 1 long conference in the parlor of the ! hotel Developments after this con ! ference came rapidly.
 The recall of the strike order will
 open the way imm ediately for a re- 1 sumption of the negotiations between 1 tine miners and the operators, as the l operators have announced that they ] would be ready to consider a new 1 wage agreement at any time the strike
 order was withdrawn. It is also un-
 derstood that the question of arbitra-
 ton entered largely into the discus | sion in the final stages of the meet
 ing, but the miners position on this
 subject was not announced.