Evening star., 1922-04-04
SCALES TO BE DECIDED.
Leaders to Consider oHer to Grant
Demands.
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 4.-Strike leaders
announced here today that the anthra-
cite miners general scale committee
would meet in New York tomorrow to
act on the reported offer of several in
dependent producers to grant the strik-
ers' nineteen wage demands Immediately
if they would return to their jobs. Ac-
ceptance Of these offers. hailed by the
union men as the first break in the
ranks of the operators may result in
the negotiation of separate contracts
and the re-opening of the mines affected,
according to district presidents of the
United Mine Workers international.
Some of the forty delegates of the
three district unions composing the poll
,cies committee arrived here today. c. ].
Golden, president of District No. at
Shamokin, said that at least one anttra-
cite mine in the United States is op-
Grating regardless of the strike. II is
the mine of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal Company at Locust Gap, Pa,
where for three months thirty men have
been digging frantically in search of 4
miner, Stanley Zuliski, who disappeared
under an avalanche Of hard coal early
last January.
VIII Continue Rescue.
knowledge of this violation of the
suspension order became general
when Mr.. Golden. before the wage
negotiation committee, asked the
joint consent of miners and operators
to continue the rescue work while
the strike is in progress. W. J. Rich
ards, president of the company which
controls the mine, said he would
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with his superintendents.
According to Mr.. Golden, Zuliski
was working a shaft with a man
named Barrett when the walls of the
shaft collapsed. Barrett said his
of coal with which the opening be-
came obstructed.
Nine hundred tons of anthracite
have been removed from the scene of
the collapse in the effort to uncover
Zuliskfs body. Mr.. Golden estimated
If the work goes on. he said, ship
ments of coal removed in the rescue
work would continue at the rate of
about twenty tons day.
Union leaders here today elabo-
rated on the United Mine Workers
program for naturalization of the
coal industry as it was broached be-
fore the House labor committee yes
terday by John L. Lewis. president OF
the international union
Bill TO Be Introduced.
The first step. according to Mr.
Golden, who is a member of the un-
ions committee which is drafting the
naturalization legislative program,
win be the introduction in Congress
of a bill providing for appointment of
a government "fact-finding" commit
tee. eThis body. he said. would be
charged with making a thorough in
vestigation of mine development. al
legged waste, profits. working condi-
tions, wages and markets.
I'VE are confident" said Mr.. Golden,
that the revelations of such a COM
mittee would cause the public to de-
mand that control of the industry be
taken from private interests and
placed under government supervi-
sion.
"One of the planks in the platform
of the unions when the time. arrives
for legislation toward naturalization
will be for regulatory control of all
mines. This would mean that the
government would forbid the devel-
opment of new fields until the pres
ent fields are worked out. 1t would
halt the existing condition of over
development. bring production to bal
ance demand, and eliminate the eX-
cess labor now engaged in the coal
industry