The Washington herald., 1919-11-06
GOVERNMENT ASKED
TO RUN COAL MINES
UNTIL CRISIS PASSES
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TRAITOR shall. as occasion may re-
Quire. restore. change or make such
rules. regulations. orders and procla-
nations fixing the prices or regulat-
ing the production. sale. shipment,
distribution. apportionment. storage
or use. OF all coal or coke as in
his judgment"
This gives DR.. Harry Garfield, Fuel
Administrator the power at any
time to extend his Jurisdiction to
anthracite coal. DIR. Garfield has re-
established Offices in the Interior
Building. and has placed Cyrus Gar
sey. jr.. his former assistant. in
charge, so as to meet emergencies
at all times.
DR.. Garfield was visited yesterday
by a delegation of Kentucky opera
tors who asked him about the pos
sible use of troops. DR.. Garfield re-
tion Of coal fields should be taken up
with other departments.
Reports favorable to the mine opera
tors were brought here by a delega-
tion from the smokeless field of West
Virginia. who called on DIR. Garfield.
They reported, that the release of coal
cars caused by the curtailment of
operation of union mines was giving
the non-union mines all the cars they
need and that the non-union mines
are showing a 100 per cent output
30 Per Cent Moro Miners mt Work
Department of Justice reports from
Colorado yesterday indicated that so
per cent more miners worked Monday
than the day before in Las Animas
and Huerfano counties. Quite an i'm
provement was reported in the La
fayette district and at Forbes in Las
Animas County. Gunnison County
mines were reported as running at
full strength and the Victor American
mines were running full. it was said.
From the coal operators headquar-
ters here the following report were
given out:
I'm Huntington. w. Va, thirty one
union mines working today. In the
New River district ten union mines
went over today. four of these as non
union. one as open shop and five on
the old wage scale.
I'm Northern West Virginia eighteen
union mines reported at work. a gain
of three.
In Kanawha three more mines re-
sumed work.
west Virginia will produce 900 900
tons of bituminous coal today.
"All non-union districts reported
running with full cars and full COM
plement of workers"
Steel Workers Quiz Palmer.
The Allied Steel Workers of Joliet.
ILL.,. asked Attorney General Palmer
why the government is trying to force
hn r71tto to oyhf
try to force Judge Gary to arbitra
with the steel workers.
THE law does not prohibit the
strike of the steel workers." replied
Mr.. Palmer while it does expressly
prohibit any concert of action to re-
duce the output OF coal.
"If there was any law being violated
in the steel strike. l should not hesi-
tate to act against either the Steel
Corporation or the strikers"
The statement issued yesterday by
the executive committee of the btu
minous coal operators of the Central
Competitive Field replying to the
statement of Mr. Gompers, charges
that he Goes lightly from one in
accuracy to another"
Representative Gilbert fCurrie, of
Michigan, gave ont an open letter to
the coal miners of Bay County, Mich
igan. urging them to return to work
on patriotic grounds.
Your controversy is no longer with
the mine operators" says Mr.. Currie
THE President has declared the coal
strike 'unjustifiable and unlawful
The conspiracy of your leaders will
be reviewed and passed upon by the
courts. Your conduct will be judged
by public opinion everywhere"