The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-10
PARTIAL END OF
COAL STRIKE is
HOPE OF UNIONS
Other Settlements Based on
One Could Be Effected, Belief.
If Cleveland Meeting Is Good.
Others Are to Follow.
WILL TRY TO AGREE, TODAY
This Afternoon Set for Writing
of the New Wage Scale.
International Union Offers No
Hope for Outside Aid.
WILL TRY To AGREE, TODAY
This Afternoon Set for Writing
of the New Wage Scale.
az the AssOciated Pressl


Cleveland, O.. Aug. 1O.-The policy
committee of the United Mine Work
ers of America today voted to pro-
ceed with the negotiations of a wage
scale agreement with the operators
of Ohio and western Pennsylvania,
Inhiana and Illinois who are here for
the joint conference that was called
with the view of breaking the soft
coal strike
In announcing the committees de-
cision. President John L Lewis of the
miners said:
II confidently predict that when a
scale is made here that rs per cent
of all the bituminous tonnage now
on strike will sign the scale and re-
turn 10 work within a week"
Illinois coal operators, who last
night refused to go to Cleveland to
confer with officials of the L. NJ. w.
A. resumed sessions at Chicago to-
day while John L. Lewis, president of
the miners. sought to negotiate a
wage scale with operators who &C
ceptcd his invitation TO the Cleveland
conference.
Cleveland. Aug. IO.-Undeterred by
failure of the majority OF operators IN
Indiana and western Pennsylvania and
all of the operators in Illinois to join
the joint conference here. miners and
operators in the central competitive
field are expected late this afternoon
TO begin the actual work of writing
a new scale which will permit the i'm
mediate resumption of coal mining IN
the union coal mines of the United
States.
About 35 Per Cent of Field.
The meeting of the joint conference,
which comprises the scale committee
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea and operators representing ap-
proNimately IS per cent of the ton
mage in the central field-western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and I'LL
nois-will be preceded by a secret ses-
sion of the policy committee of the
mine workers. This body determines
all matters of general policy, and diff
ferences within the union itself will be
thrcshed out here
Frank Farrington. president of the
Illinois miners wants to go ahead and
sign a contract with the Illinois op-
orators. it was reported. but authority
for this will not be granted, it was
learned, until scale for the entire
district has been arranged There Will
be no difficulty about this, however,
once both sides have agreed upon
wage terms.
No Bar To Success
Both sides admit the representation
ot operators from western Pennsyl-
vania and Indiana is far from repre-
sentative, but this is not considered a
bar to the success of the efforts
Cry the Associated PressD
Cleveland. Au-- 1O--After three
days spent in marking time. the con-
ference of soft coal operators and
leaders of the striking miners was
scheduled today to turn 10 prepara-
tions for negotiating a wage scale
agreement that would end the strike
as far as it affects the operators who
become signatories to the new con-
These preparations included the Sc
lection OF the credentials and other
committees that will consider the de-
tails OF any wage contract
Little real progress seemed in sight
for the conference was not to assem-
BILE until the late afternoon
To Effect "A Settlement.
Before the conference session, the
unions policy committee was to be
asked by President John L. Lewis OF
the miners to authorize the conclu-
sion of a settlement with the opera
tors who had gathered for the joint
peace meeting. The committee also
was asked TO consider changes in the
boundaries of the central competitive
field, which has always been limited
to western Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana and Illinois.
Some operators in northern West
Virginia, in the F'reeport thick vein
of Allegheny county, Pa. and in parts
of the central Pennsylvania field were
willing to join the conference in seek
change that would bring these dis
tricts under a single settlement with
that designed to bind the operators of
the central competitive field would
require approval of the conferences as
well as that of the union committee.
Garry Goals From Newcastle.
San Francisco, Aug. 10.-Four YES
sells arriving here since August l have
brought 22,252 tons of coal from
Newcastle, y. s. w, and Cardiff one
Of he IN
Francisco in nine days since the war
No European Intervention.
Frankfurt-on Main, Germany. Aug
10.-Ali possibility of European labor