Arizona republican., 1919-11-30
COA[ SITUATION
 LEFT IN HANDS
 OF LOCAL GOVT,
Federal Agents Drop from View to Give Operators Chance to Resume Work -Dr. Garfield Submits New Figures on Wage Question Raised by the Miners
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Develop- ments in the government efforts to insure an adequate fuel supply for the country awaited tonight the out come of attempts of soft coal operat ors to induce miners to return to work for a wage advance of 14 per cent and assurances of federal pro- lection
 Notices of this wage advance, sug- gested by Fuel Administrator Garfield. were posted at the mines. How far this will aid in inducing miners to re- turn to work cannot be learned until next week
 Expect Many Miners to Resume
 Operators here expected Monday to see many of the miners, in districts not in the central competitive terri | tory, back at work.
 Standing firm on their announced intention to spare neither operators or miners who interfered with the restora- tion of production to normal, Dr. Gar field and Attorney General Palmer awaited developments. It was indi- cated no further steps were conten plated while state and local officials 1 handled the situation satisfactorily. Assurance that the government would not tolerate any attempt to destroy l trade unions or the principal of col | lective bargaining on the part of the employing interests wishing to take advantage of the present situation was | given today by Dr. Garfield, before leaving for Williamstown, Massa- chusetts, where he will spend the week end
 Production Gradually increasing
 Official statistics showed production to be approaching 50 per cent of normal at the end of the first month of the strike as compared with 29 per | cent during the first week and 8 per cent the second week. The weeklv re- port of the United States geological survey today showed that 44.S per l cent of normal was produced during the third week. Dr. Garfield also is- sued today an analysis of the figures on which he based his conclusion fol a 14 per cent wage advance. Explain ing wherein he differed with Secre- tary Wilson, he called attention to ''tht
 fact that the principle involved is oi far greater importance than the fig ures arrived at
 ''The principle applied in arriving a IA per cent is different in kind ant
 character from that applied in arriv
 ing at 31.61 per cent and hence any
 attempt to average the two or to com
 promise the results is impossible" Dr
 Garfield said
 A wage advance of 31.61 per cen
 as suggested by Secretary Wilson
 would give a total advance since 1e1
 Of 107.4 per cent as compared with
 maximum advance of 79 per cent il lao IA1 Miners are paid by the ton" h. said"
 Past increases Big
 Other mine workers are paid by tn , day. The day laborers generally hav ; received advances of wages since 191 , equal to and, in some instances, in ex l cess of the increase in the cost o
 living l The proposition that general in 5 crease of 31.61 sjer cent be given ' simply 8 proposition to give to all min : labor the percentage of increase re quired to bring the class of labor tha ! has received the lowest per cent up { !. the present level of living costs eve though that advances the other grou r far above the amount necessary. q pr. Garfield pointed out that statis tlcS or the ndtlonai lnduSlflai conIef 8 ence board showed only a 73 per cer s increase in the cost of living and ths t on this basis the miners would l y entitled to only nine and eight-tent e per cent wage advance.
 7. On an annual output of 100000. .0( a tons, Dr. Garfield said the additioni e wage bill would approximate s2ss.O00 1T 900 with a 21.61 per cent advance e s107.ooo,00o with 14.1 per cent 1T g crease and s74.0o0.0o0 with a 9.S p,
 cent advance.
 The average earnings of all mil
 workers in 1918 was s1,55o.56 or $6.
 per day worked. Dr. Garfield sai
 This conclusion was based on inform; ton taken directly from the month ,a cost sheets on which the operators r ~ ported to the federal trade commissio