Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-06
GOVERNMENT ASKS
FOR PEACE FARLEY
IN COAL SITUATION
House Labor Committee In
vites Miners and Operators
to Meet at Washington on
April 10

WASHINGTON, April 5.-The
house labor committee today await
ing responses to it's invitations TO
operators Of the central competitive
fields for a conference in Washing
ton April 10 to end the coal strike
gave notice to the country through
their leaders that it will not cease
it's efforts until a settlement OF the
dispute is effected.
eve are going to stick to thls
thing until we have reached solu'
ton, whether it comes through TINS
first effort or not" Representative
Bland, Republican, Indiana, trainer
of the resolution which the commit
tee is studying, declared today.
Representative Nolan, Republican,
chairman of the committee, eX-
pressed a similar determination. lie
was the originator of the plan toward
which the country is looking today
for a solution.
NEW YORK, April 4.-Strike
leaders announced here today that
the anthracite miners general scale
committee would meet in New YORK
tomorrow to act on the reported Of
fer of several independent producers
TO grant the strikers nineteen wage
demands Immediately if they would
return to their jobs. Acceptance OF
these offers, hailed by the union men
as "the first break in the ranks OF
the OPERATORS may result in the
negctiation Of separate contracts
and the reopening of the mines al
fected, according to district presl..
dents of the United Mine Workers
international.
Some of the foryt delegates OF the
three district unions composing the
policies committee arrived mere TO-
day. G.. J. Golden, president OF
district No. 9, at Shamokin, said that
at least one anthracite mine in the
United States is operating regard
less Of the strike. 1t is the mine OF
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
company at Locust Gap, Pa., where
for three months thirty men nave
been digging frantically in search
of a miner, Stanley Zulisk1, VINO
disappeared under an avalanche OF
hard coal early last January.
Knowledge of this violation of the
suspension order became general
when Mr.. Golden, before the wage
negotiation committee asked the
Joint consent of miners and opera
tors to continue the rescue work
while the strike is in progress. w.
J. Richards, president of the COM
pany which controls the mine, said
he would make the necessary ar
engagements with his superintend-
ents.
According to Mr.. Golden, Zuliski
was working a shaft with man
named Barrett. when the walls OF
the shaft collapsed. Barrett said his
partner was buried beneath the tons
of coal with which the opening be-
came INSTRUCTED.
Nine hundred tons of anthracite
have been removed from the scene
of the collapse in the effort to un'
cover Zuliski's body. Mr.. Golden
estimated. If the work goes on, he
said, shipments Of coal removed in
the rescue work would continue at
the rate of about twenty tons a day.
Union leaders here today elabo
rated on the United Mine Workers
program for naturalization of the
coal industry, as it was preached
before the house labor committee
yesterday by John L. Lewis, presf
dent of the international union.
The first step, according to Mr.
Golden, who is a member of the
union committee which is drafting
the naturalization legislative pro
gram, will be the introduction in
congress of a bill providing for ap
pointment of a government fact
finding committee" This body, he
said, would be charged with making
thorough investigation of mine
development, alleged waste, profits
working conditions, wages and mar
kets.