Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-07-07
NINE WORKERS DO
NOT SEE THE POINT
OPERATORS AND WORKERS ARE
IN AN APPARENT DEAD
LOCK OVER SITUATION
Meetings Are Being Held Daily In
Order to Find If Possible, Means
of Getting Men Back to
Work

Washington.-All hope Of getting
the striking coal miners back to work
this week was abandoned by admin
istration leaders Sunday when the
joint conference of operators and
miners adjourned in what appeared to
| be hopeless deadlock.
The rock upon which the conference
again split. was the fundamental point
for which the miners are contend
ing, namely, that the new contracts
shall be based on the central compe-
titive field at once. The conference
has not progressed in it's deliberation
beyond the consideration Of the basis
of settlement. Tie miners positively
refuse to bulge from their position
in the matter of contract, insisting on
interstate contract instead of indie
pendent district settlement
Sunday, however, there was a show
down in both camps. the operators
voting against conferences based on
the central competitive field and the
miners. voting against the proposition
of Independent conferences in, each
district.
At the close of the coference, Sec
rotary of Commerce Hoover and Sec |
rotary of Labor Davis ISSUED this
statement:
Upon suggestions for further sep !
arate meetings of the operators and |
miners for further consideration of /
-,,o+boJe +Io oo-foronoa odtor,.-,a1
Immediately after adjournment the /
miners were called into executive ses-
sion by President John L. Lewis and
remained behind closed doors for
nearly two hours. The operators adj
iourned to the roof of the Hotel
Washington and both sides reviewed
the deliberations to date.
Whether or not the government has
submitted a counter-proposition was
rot announced. nor was it denied.
That there had been general discus
sion of other ways and means IN
achieve the purpose of the conference
WIS admitted.
AS Secretary of Davis left the Red
Cross building he laughingly remarked
that "both sides have voted on their
own separate propositions and each
KS rejected the others plan, so it is
now probable that they can agrees
upon"
That was the only note of optimism
IN Sundays proceedings. The confer
,nce was enlarged by the inclusion OF
Joseph Purseglove, an independent
,perator who has been openly in IA
-or of settlement on the interstate
,asis and James Morgan, district sec
'etary of the Wyoming district.
Following the conference of min
RS representative 1t was reported
hat the miners contended that if they
lbandoned the question of contract
hey would weaken their cause.
Only directly has the economic
question teen touched upon. both sides
linging tcnaciously to the question
f settlement as being paramount.
Action by the conference to he
hiding on either side must he by
unanimous vote AS organized. the
perators have slight numerical adj
antage in the conference. but this is
ut considered imDortant because of
le necessity of unanimous action.
The miners are also proceeding on
he theory that another conference
Ill follow in the event the confer
1ces succeeded in "devising the agen-
for affecting a solution" of the pro-
ems, as President Harding expressed
A so-called independent group of
1erators. claiming to represent 20
1000 tons production, forced the
,erators previously accredited To
q conference to recognize them.