Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-29
OPERATORS REFUSE
FARLEY WITH MINERS
President Wilson to Take Action
After Receiving Report From
Labor Secretary.
~ Associated Press 70 Every Evening

Hr Associated Press % Every Evening
st Louis, July 20 Thomas r. Hrews-
ter, chairman If tho coal operators scale
committee. today called meeting of
operators IN the central competitive field
20 consider the coal situation as a reHult
Of the miners strike The meeting viii
he held tomorrow morning IN Chicago
Washington. July 2g Secretary VIII
son > report on the coal situation IN gen
cral with particular emphasis upon CON
dittons in Illinois and Indiana, was sent %
President Wilson today
While the secretary refused tn discuss
the nature Of the report. il was insinated
at the Department Of Labor thai among
the Recommendation was one thnf the
award Of the bituninous coal commission
be reopened on the ground That an equit-
able adjustment Of the pay Of day lals1rcrs
IN the mines had never been made.
Pittaburg. Pa, July 29.-T-he Pitts
burg Coal Operators Association hiss re-
fused the request of John l.. Lewis, presi-
dent OF the United Mime Workers. that a
joint conference be held by representatives
OF tho men and operators OF the central
competitive field 70 consider the mining
situation The operators telegraphed
Lewis that they regarded the request as
an invitation to reopen the recently con-
Guided wage negotiations.
Springfield. H., July 29.-Shft men
and coal diggers Of the Springfield dis
trict have decided 70 repudiate their
district president and remain on strike
until their demand for 81 day increase
is granted.
They left 4 mass meeting at which
Greeman Thompson, president OF the
Springfield district, urged return 10
work Then they voted unanimously
to remain on strike.
Conflicting statements are made By
Frank Harrington president of the
Illinois Miners Union. and the Illionis
Coal Operators Association as to the
number of mines that have signed TO pay
the 81 increase. The operators say all
mines are holding fast
Miners in the Peoria district numbering
| 400 are the latest TO join the strike.
indianapolis, July 29-With seventy
per cent of the coal mines in Indiana idle,
officials of the United Mine Workers
today awaited reply from Thomas t.
Brewster, chairan Of the operators scale
committee, to the request of President
John L. Lewis of The miners for a Joint
meeting of miners and operators.
Brewster called a meeting of the Opera
tors Scale Committee TO be held in
hicago today.
Harry W Little, secretary of the
Southern Indiana Coal Bureau, reported
that fifty PER cent of the miners in the
southern Indiana coal fields in the vicinity
of Evansville were idle as a result Of the
strike
Chicago, July 20. The executive COM
mittee of Indiana coal operators convened
here today to consider the miners strike
in Indiana Philip Penna, chairman of
the committee, estimated Indiana coal
production at about IS per cent below
normal.
Cumberland, Md, July 29-Three
hundred miners have struck here because
of the discharge of William Downtown,
a motorman. Miners of the Wolf Eden
Coal Company and Emmons Coal Com
pay have returned to work after an UNI
pire decided they were entitled to %
cents ton.