Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-08-16
MINERS ORDERED
BACK TO WORK BY
OFFICIALS OF UNION
TWENTY WEEK STRIKE CLOSED
OVER LARGE AREA -- ILLINOIS
SITUATION STILL IN DOUBT -
10000 REPORTED READY TO-
WORK.

Cleveland Aug 16.--tAP0-Fo
the first time in twenty weeks strik
ing soft coal miners 1T scattered
| points in seven states were today un
der orders to begin coal Production
This result of the part settlement o,
he strike, however, affected only
= small minority of the 400. 900 sof:
coal diggers who threv Down their
picks last March 81, but uniCn Off.
citis were on their wa back home
to seek to make peace with other
employers
President John L. Lewis of the
miners, who remained ere for sa
day 5 rest before entering the peace
negotiations at Philadelphia tomorrow
With the anthracite operators, pre-
diCted that soft coal operators gencr-
ally would accept the agreement
made here and held out hope for an
early quantity production. He also
said he was hopeful Of the result of
the conference with the anthracite
District union officials before leav-
inG here for home sent invitations
for five meetings of operators with
the view of concluding peace.
The general agreement concluded
here and adopted by the union as a
basis for supplemental agreements
throughout the coal fields, continues
the old wages and working conditions
including the check Of oi union dues
to Atrii /, 1923. and provides machin
cry for negotiating but hot arbilrdt-
Ing hest years scale rhs agree-
nent also calls for \ 1dtiolal cDu-
Nent-on OF operators AMI aincrs of
tha tituminous TERRITORY tc be held
trc leXt October for sh!- ti"t a.
fact-tinding commission to investigate
tAH coal ilGdstry.
10000 to Return.
Benton, ILL.,, Aug 16(APD Sixty
thousand bituminous coal miners of
southern Illinois today were gather
ing their tools and preparing to en-
ter the pi which have been id'a|
since the nation wide STRIFE became
effective on April / on a few hours
notice in expectation of the ending of
the strike in Illinois by the signing
of agreement between Illinois oper-
ators and miners at a conference to
be held in Chicago Friday. Although
most of the striking miners are jubi-
liant at the propect of returning to
work the prevalent opinion is that
they would prefer national agree
ment with the operator instead Of
individual and separate agreements
which they think will result from the
partial breaking Of the strike by the
Gle veland agreement. Renewed ac-
tivity in putting the mines in condi.
ton for resumption Of work is re-
ported from the entire district The
work of cleaning out the pits, oiling
machinery, rekindling fires and low
ering mules into the mines has been
in progress for the last week.
Miners Threaten RaiIman
st Louis, Aug .-(APl-- e. JI
Wallace, member of the Missouri
fuel commission, has written to Gov
ernnor Len Small of Illinois, calling
his attention to the actions of strik
ing miners in southern Illinois, who
he stated, have prevented the deliv.
cry of coal consigned to Missouri pub
lie utility companies
In his letter Wallace claimed that
the railroads were unable to move
coal in southern Illinois because the
miners have warned railroad workers
not to transport scab coal.
Wallace wrote another letter to
Frank Harrington, president of the
Illinois miners, requesting him to do
what he can to stop interference with
the delivery of coal
Predict Ind. Mines VIII Run.
Terre Haute Ind, Aug 16-ln ad-
vance of the meeting today of the
scale committee of the Indiana btu
minous coal operators association
several prominent operators pre-
dicted that the Cleveland agreement
would be accepted and that by the
end of the week there would be
generally resumption of mining in
this state.
harrington Peeved.
West Frapkfort, Ill, Aug. 16.-(By
the a. P)-"You and Your friends
can go to hell" This was the text
OF telegram made public last night
by A. A. Pearce, miner official of
Johnson City, near here which he
said came from Frank Harrington.
president of the Illinois miners in
reply to a resolution adopted by
several thousand miners at a mass
meeting at Johnson City Yesterday
demanding that Harrington resign
because Of his action favoring a
separate wage agreement.