The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-08
Ray Rohwer in action.

, coal operators who have been IN SeS-
sion as wage negotiations commit
tee. suspended their conferences to-
day and returned to their respective
districts. 1t was announced that they
would resume sessions Tuesday when
their efforts to bring about a settle
ment of the strike will be renewed.
The basis upon which operators will
conduct their fight for wage reduc-
lions were outlined today by S. d..
Warmer, president of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation company. He assert
ed however that the operators had
not yet decided what percentage of
reduction they will seek to incorpor-
ate in the new anthracite contract.
"The price of coal has reached a
point where the market is threatened
| by the competition of such substitutes
as coke, gas, certain grades of btu
minous coal, wood, electricity, which
can now be burned more cheaply than
anthra cite coal,'' said Mr. Warmer
What we must have is a wage
structure by which we ca7 produce
anthracite and deliver it to the public
at a reasonable cost. Unless people
! buy our coal the mines will be idle
part of the time. A good market will
| mean mines in operation the year
round. We believe the miner ought
to be equally interested in producing
coal at reasonable prices and in keep
| ing the mines operating, for then he
is assured full-time wages and high
er standard of living"
| John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, and
Vice-President Philip Murray will con
tinue to maintain strike headquarters
in New York during their presence
here, they announced today.
Both officials declared that, in view
of the governments failure to draw
the bituminous operators into a wage
conference with the miners, they were
"entrenching themselves for long
drawn out battle."- Although reports
of violence were beginning to come in
from the West Virginia field, their
organizers would continue ito invade
the enemy territory to form new I'm
ions and close down more non-union
mines" they said.
PITTSBURGH, April S.-Earnest eff
forts to paralyZe non-union operations
in the most eastern regions of District
and the western part of the central
Pennsylvania district are being push
ed by union leaders, reports from
Westmoreland, Fayette and Somerset
counties indicate.
officials of the miners organization
last night invaded the Zenor coal field
in Somerset county and enrolled 25t
of a possible 400 miners on strike
against a reduction of wages. The
miners employed by the Imperial Goa
Mining company at Seward, also mum
bering about $50, were organized at &
meeting last night.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, April s.
Union leaders of Districts II and 90
7 United Mine Workers, We're devotint
their efforts yesterday and today tt
personal inspection tours of the south
: ern West Virginia fields and to organ
ization mass meetings. They reported
that mine at Matewan had been clos
ed by the walkout of non-union work
ers. Williamson operators claimed /;
: production of 10000 tons yesterday
with all mines working at normal ca
! pacity.
CUMBERLAND, Md, April S.-Rep
resentatives of the miners of the Mary
land and Upper Potomac (West Viz
ginia) coal fields who were requested
| to meet in conference with a humble
of operators, have replied to the oper
ators declaring that nothing can b,
- done until a basis is established in TIL
Y central competitive field, necessary il
: order to stabilize the coal industry
: Labor is not losing its grip in thi
l.. section, Notwithstanding reports to tn
r contrary, declared President Frank
t Dru moi the Union district
Miss Sarah Smith, a public schoo
teacher, of st. John, N. B., has re
p signed her position after forty-fou