The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-01
MORE THAN HALF
MILLION MINERS
OUT ON STRIKE
coNrINunD rnoM 80 ~.

NOT be assembled until the country
has endured tho agony aud con
vuisiOus involved iu uu iudusttla
strife on such gigantic scale. II
the present issue tho public has beer
lullcd 100 a. stusc ul .Ilso security uA
the soothing statements Ut those
who will profit through a strike.
"The mluy workers repeatedly
hdyo called Hiioutluu 60 those facts
and our statements have gone uu'
needed. Tho responsibility muH
therefore, np with those who have
forced th. present situation and are
seeking 100 beat he miners back.
wards.
"As s,lf-rospcU citizens we are
resolved 90 stand In opposition to
those who deny us "a living wHgo and
our proper aspirations for am Amer.
lean standard of living
WASHINGTON. March 3i.-Con-
WINGED that every reasonable effort
has been made 90 prevent a. national
coal strike in anthracite ana bitumi-
nous coal mines tomorrow, bur be-
licviug that although these efforts
havc been without avail existing
conditions md surplus coal assure
price protection and current supply
for tho general public, official WASH
ingtOn settled back tonight 20 await
the event with considerable calm
ness.
Intervention Futile.
In n final White House discussion
10 was said that the governments
long negotiation with the parties TO
tho controversy and continuous
study OF tho industry's production
volume had convinced the admins
tratlon that Immediate Intervention.
iu legal or extra legal ways, would
be fulilc and unnecessary, and that
while tho future might sharpen tho
breach between employer ana cm-
ploye in the mining camps, FOR the
present even action looking 10 the
preservation of peace was unnocoH-
sary.
President Harding was urged dur
iug the day by delegation repre-
senting the protestant federal wei
fare council of Churches of Christ
ana tho national Catholic welfare
council 60 make % further attempt tu
got operators and miners together
aud 20 set up % commission TO adjust
their differences. AZ tho White
House, however. II was said laior
that no action was advisable at this
time.
a house committee was also told
by Edward &. Tyron, coal produc-
survey. that $4,000. 600 tons Of coal,
equivalent to a 5t-dny supply for
every consumer, was In storage nt
this time These stocks, officials es-
innate, will be supplemented IN
definitely by large outputs from nom
union fields In West virginia and
elsewhere. whore operators asserted
today that miners would pay no at
tentlon 60 the union attempts TO
have them cease work.
Labor department officials also
were Interested In reports from
union fields In western Kentucky,
where II was estimated that approx
matoly 5000 miners were consider
Ing staying on the job under n local
wage contract. notwithstanding the
national orders for walking out.
President IN Accord.
Tho white House Views Of the ad-
miulstration decision 10 withhold |
present action, II was reiterated, I
have been formed by tho closest OF |
contact and study on the part OF the |
president and his advisers which he-
gan long before general recognition
of tho strike danger, However, the
whose delegation includ-
ed among others Rev. Worth NJ
Tippy of the federal council and
the Reverend Father John a. Ryan,
for the National Catholic council
faid they had found President Hard
Ing sympathetic and consideracd he
would support any stops congress
might be induced TO take TO set up
the machinery for settling the strike,
Since last October, President
Harding personally ns wei ~ Sec
retarles Hoover, Davis and Mellon
and other cabinet officers have an
ticipatcd tho break and there have
been intermittent negotiations In
the endeavor to bring the mine
workers and the mino operators,
particularly I'm the bltuminous
fields, into a conference to discuss
wage agreements.
In October, operators I'm the CEN
tral competitive bltuminoua fields
agreed after "a meeting with Presl- 4
dent Harding 10 so INTO such a con-
ference with the possibility OF pre-
venting a general suspension OF
work
Officers OF tho United Mine
Workers, the union directly con-
ccrned, were, however, unable TO
agree to confer at that time he
cause a national convention Of tho |
union had TO be assembled 20 give |
them power 10 act.
Later. the convention was as
sembled. but thereafter operators |
OF the coal mines in western Penn
sylvania particularly refused TO go |
forward with the conference plan |
for reaching a new soni-natiOnal |
wage agreement, Although II Is
considered by tho administration |
that while tho mining interests OF |
Indiana and Ohio, the 9TH |
er states In the central fields, might |
have been induced TO enter another
national wage agreement the refusal
Df the Pennsylvania contingent was
sufficient TO block the conference
plan.
large Surplus OF Coal
This refusal when was persisted
IN 20 the point OF "obduracy." u
was said at tho white House, had
eft the government with nothing
more TO do than the general welfare
demanded. Existence OF largo SUR
.lus stocks OF coal, with the likeli-
rood that neither shortage nor price
disturbance would eventuate from
he strike for sometime now has re-
ulted IN the governments determi-
lation to refrain from any sort OF
orcihle Intervention in the industry
NTH and unless need for such action
becomes evident.
Federal reserve bank and geology .
cal survey statements were issuedN n
oday bearing upon the recent a
'yer- production OF coal which has
ulhed largely IN Waite House ana