The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-07-01
EFFORT IS MADE
To SETTLE COAL
STRIKE IN MEET
Harding Calls Miner Chiefs and oper.
ators Together for Conference;
viii State Plainly That
Action Due.
PROTECTION OF PUBLIC
INTEREST BE STRESSED
Miners pessImistie; Say Operators
Hand Picked Ones Not Willing
for National Agreement; Are
After Districts.

washington, July /. President
Hiarding today called upon the strlk
ing miners and the coal operators
oil the country to resume mining
operators at once and then adjust
their differences In joint conferences.
Speaking before about fifty chief.
tains Of the United Mine Workers
OF America and leading coal opera
tors at the white house. the presi-
dent issued AN emphatic warning TO
the warning factions that unless the
strike Is soon terminated the fed
eral government In the public inter
est will exert all It's vast powers
TO force an ending of the walk-out.
The president, after referring to
the menace the country faces be-
cause of dwindling coal supplies, in
formed both operators and miners
that the interests of the people must
be protected and that the govern
ment proposes to take steps toward
that end unless the strike is ended
through joint conferences.
Demands Permanent Solution.
Harding also declared that per
manent solution of the frequent
stra$s in the industry must be
found
Labor has the right; capital has
the right, and above all else, the
American public has the right TO be
freed from these recurring anxieties.
no matter what the causes are,
said the president.
"That freedom must be estab-
lished"
Harding made a feryid appeal that
operations be resumed pending ad
justment of the dispute.
with diminishing fuel supplies,
with menacing shortages as we turn
to winters approach, with unemploy
ment visiting it's hardships upon
idle mine workers and with vast |
ownership without return on invest |
ment, it would seem to be the sim
plest common sense to find accepta.
BILE ground on which to resume ac-
tivties, with commitment to accept |
the righteous adjustments which
may well be expedited in common
consent" Har ding said.
While at Tie white house the OPP
orators and miners were assured by
President Harding that during the
conferences here they will be i'm
mune from prosecution under the
antitrust laws. Attorney General
Daugherty was present and backed
up the words of the president.
Washington, July l. President
Hardings move to end the nation
wide coal strike began here today.
Fifty leading coal operators and
union leaders assembled at the
white house to be told by the presi-
dent that the government expects
them to put their feet under table
settle their differences and start the
coal mines humming again.
The coal strike, now in its thir-
teenth week, must be brought to an
end to protect public interest, Hard
ing was to say, although he was ex-
pected to emphasize that the admin
istration is not contemplating the
use of force at least at this time.
From reliable sources, it was
learned there would be no open
threat, but between the lines of the
presidents remarks it was believed
the operators and miners would be
able to read a warning to "get
busy" and to stay busy.
Then the operator-miner represen-
tatives were to meet with Secretar-
les Hoover and Davis and get down
to business. /,
The purpose of today's conference
is to agree on terms under which
the disputants can get together and
finally work out a settlement.
The miners, long willing to confer
with operators, were frankly pessi-
mistic when they went to the white
house. John L. Lewis, international
president of the United Mine Work
ers, and other miners officials,
stated openly their opinions that the
operators called to Washington are
hand picked" lot who will never ;
agree to meeting the miners on
national scale, but will stand pat
for stat or district settlements.