Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-25

Monday. Fun cooperation has been
assured at the miners headquarters.
The third conciliator and President
Frank harrington We're both expected in
Springfield tomorrow.
Conditions in the mine fields were liz
tie improved today. All of the mines
In central Illinois, including the four
which worked yesterday, are reported
shut down. Operators here said only
twenty five of the 700 mines Of the state
were working.
Coal is becoming increasingly scarce
in Springfield. One of the two largest
hotels in the city lacks sufficient coal
to keep its refrigeration plant running
for five days more
Iowa Miners Want Raise.
DES MONIES. Iowa. July ga
formal request for a joint conference
TO consider revision of the wage
scale for bituminous miners in Iowa
is contained in letter written TODAY
by J. C Lewis, president of District
%, United Mine Workers of America
to D. C. Gushing. president of the
| Iowa Coal Operators Association
The fuel situation is serious. Mr.
Lewis says. and he calls attention to
what he terms the "inadeouacy" of
the findings of the coal commission
and INEQUALITIES" between the wages
OF coal miners and those paid other
workers
instead of the normal number II 900
miners, being at work in Iowa now,
Lewis says, but about 1900 men are
employed at the mines, the others
having quit for other work.
| Attention is called to the fact that
the Iowa mines will be able to pro-
duce only about so per cent of the
demand in the state, and that Illinois
shipments practically are shut Of
! Arkansas Strike Ends.
! INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July "a
| Eight hundred coal miners in the
| Hartman and Spadra field, in Arkan-
sas. were ordered to return TO work
! following the signing of mutual
! agreement reached here today. The
strike had been in progress since July
B. and was due to charges made by
the miners that the coal companies
| were chan ring the miners exorbitant
prices for supplies.
| In the agreement reached at the in
| ternational headquarters of the United
Mine Workers of America here the
price of these supplies is left blank
! and is to be the subject of an inves-
/ LEGATION, at which the price will be
| fixed, later.
The order calling off the strike was
sent out by John Wilkinson, president
Of District No. Fl. which includes Ar
kansas. to the district secretary, E. F.
Ross, at Muskogee. Okla The latter
will notify the local unions in the
two fields
Kansas Miners Threaten.
PITTSBgRG, Kan, July "a. "A
strike of the Kansas coal miners next
week is impending, Alexander Howat.
president of the Kansas miners, as
serted today.
He said the miners would start a
cleanup of the mines Monday pre-
| paratory to q walkout The strike,
he said. would be a protest against
fines levied against the miners for
refraining from working on Saturday.
Virginia Operators to Meet.
+ ROANOKE, Va, July 24.-Coai op-
orators in Virginia and West Virginia
hayes been asked to meet in Lynch
burg July 20. The executive commit
tee OF the state fuel committee is to
discuss the coal situation in Virginia.
John Wood. secretary of the fuel COM
nlttee, announced here today The
Lynchburg conference will be pre-
paratory to the appearance of the
fuel committee before the Interstate
commerce Commission. when the
| commission will be asked to make a
more favorable ruling regarding the
shipment of coal in Virginia" Mr..
Wood added