The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-28
ANTHRACITE
men WILLING
TO NEGOTIATE
Miners Prepared to Continue
Strike or Enter Conference,
Chairman of Union Scale
Committee Says.
SOFT COAL STRUGGLE
CBy Associated Press)

HAZELTINE, Pa. July 2S.-Anthra-
cite miners are prepared either to con-
tinue the present status for an indef-
mite period or are ready to enter into
looking toward a settle
r1ent based on progress" as suggest
ed to the operators by President Hard
ing. Thomas J. Kennedy, chairman OF
the union scale committee, said today.
Kennedy said that the history OF
the joint conferences in the anthracite
region since 1912 show that the anthra-
cite operators never offered a settle
E1ent to the miners until they learned
first the basis of settlement in the
bituminous region.
A call will be issued in day or two
for a joint conference in the central
competitive field for an adjustment of
the bituminous strike, he said. At the
same time a call will be sent to the
policy committee of the United Mine
Workers to hold a meeting in the city
where the interstate joint conference
will take place.
CHICAGO, July 2S.-Coal operators
today were continuing to deny knowl-
edge of any scheduled peace meeting
such as mentioned by John L. Lewis,
head of the United Mine Workers, and
the strike seemed little nearer a
! settlement.
Mr. Lewis statement that he had
every reason to believe that an inter
state joint conference of the central
competitive fields will be arranged
within a few days" was discounted by
! officials of the national coal associa-
| ton at Washington. They said that
the decision had been reached to make
no move in the central field.
Meanwhile Secretary Hoover was re
ceiving assurance from the governors
of various states that the federal gov
ernment would receive every aid from
them in preventing retail profiteering
in coal during the strike emergency
! Governor Shoup of Colorado indicated
that he would today add his assurance
to that of the governors of Iowa, West
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota
and Kansas, already received by the
secretary Of commerce.
Sees Enchoachment.
Governor Morrison of North Caro-
lima, however, declared that the fed
eral government is engaged in {
i steady encroachment upon the right:
of the state, in an address before the
convention of the state press associa
tion before the convention of the state
press association.
! 1t was expected that the president:
coal committee which has been work
ing to perfect an Organization to carry
out the coal control program would b.
ready to function by the first of mex
week.
More than half of the state railroad
and public utilities commission havt
: assured commissioner Atitchison o
the interstate commerce commission
; and representing that body on tn
: presidents coal committee, of thei
cooperation in carrying~out the pri
ority orders.
At Muskogee, Okla, contracts wit
miners supplying coal to public utili
ties and institutions, Cancelled by tn
: United Mine Workers, were renewed
Report Violence.
Violalce increased in connection
with the coal strike in Kentucky, Wes
: Virginia and Pennsylvania, six point
: being affected
A clash between state troops an
: strike sympathizers was thought to b
: possibility in the Middleborougf
| KY, mining district Twenty-Five il
l fantrymen and their officers were O.
, their way to the Yellow Creek mine:
? where strike sympathizers were re
2 ported to have fired on miners goin
to work and strike leaders here sal
if the troops arrived at the mines trol
BILE was almost certain.
Troops were sent to Clarksville, v
: Va, where mine operators had aske
additional protection.
State guardsmen were sent to se7
eral mines in the vicinity of Eden!
: burg, Pa, upon request of operators.