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PRESIDENT WILL
ASK COAL MINERS
TO RESUME WORK
Is Considering Report on Situa-
ton and May Reopen Wage
Award.
OPERATORS COMMITTEE
MEETING IN CHICAGO
by As.o eiated Press to Every Evening


Washington, July 30 President vii
son today had under consideration the
report on the coal situation made 30 him
yesterday 10y Secretary Of Labor Wilson,
who recommended reOpening of the wage
award Of the bitnminous coal commission
so that IL would include wages Of mine
laborers. Dissatisfaction of the lahorera
over their wage scale has resulted IN the
strike in the Illinois and Indiana coal
fields which has greatly c,rrtailed produc-
tion.
II was said today that the President
might appeal 10 the miners who arc on
strike in Illinois and Indiana ~ return 10
work pending aulicable settlement u
their grievances Their demands for an
increase IN wages probably will he dis
cusse6 at a conference m New York
Monday between representatives ~ -four
government departments and committee
from the nonl industry
Prosecutions ON charges Of profteoring
IN coal sales have been instituted against
about twenty coal mino operators and
brokers IN Fast Tennessee, the Depart
msnt Of Justice il advised The men
have been selling hitnminutls coal N
~ ~ So 30 per ton, II e stated
indianapolis, July 10 Most coal mines
III the Indiana field continued idlo to-day
as the result n strike Reports from
the Terre Haute district stated Ig5 mines
were closed and more than q. 900 men were
out. Nearly all Of the 30 mines IN the
Evansville district were closed
Chicago, July 30 Members II the
bituminous coal operators scale eoul-
mttee ri the central competitive field
met here today 10 act upon the invitation
Of President John l.. Lewis IF the United
Mine Workers Of America to confer with
the miners scale committee
Chicago members Of the committee
who went 10 Washington recently 10
present information On the strike If 1ay
laborers in Illinois mines declared then
that they could not undertake 10 change
the wage agreement with the miners
signed last April unless the government
reopened the coal commission hearings
which drew mp the wage scale
Some members Of the committee have
declared their willingness 10 adjust the
increase granted the day laborers by the
coal commissions award, to make IL
equal the increase granted other miners.
but not until governmental permission
u received. The day laborers who struck
announced their dissatisfaction with the
difference IN increases.
Pittsburg, Kansas, July 30--AIexander
liowat, district president Of the United
Mine Workers, today wired John L.
Lewis, international president. that
Kansas miners would ''use all the power
ut their command to compel the opcrat tors
to return every dollar that was stolen
from their wages.
Several thousand Kansas miners are
idle IN pro test against fines imposed by
operators because the miners refused to
work Saturdays
Howat's declaration was regarded bv
operators as tantamount TO defiance Of
the international president Lewis in n
recent telegram TO Howat took the stand
that the five day week instituted bv the
miners which resulted in the fines levied
by the operators was a violation Of the
union contract.
Washington, July Chairman Clark
OF the Interstate Commerce Commission.
today sent to agents appointed By the
commission 10 supervise emergency move
ment of coal to Lake Erie ports and New
England estimates Of the amount needed
for those localities and the car movement
required
In his letter to H. NJ. Griggs, Of Cleve-
land the chairman estimated that 20
/ 100000 tons, 1000 cars moving 80 tons
per car for 100 days, could be moved
from Ohio, Pennsylvania and West
Virginia fields to Lake Erie ports during
the remainder OF the navigation season.