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DELAY ANSWER
Harding May Set Reply to;Stf|ks
Settlement Mpndaj.
TAYLOR TALKS TO DAVIS
Labor Secretary Claims Government is
Acting With All Due Dispatch IN
Coal Situation.

Labor Secretary Claims government -
Acting With All Due Dispatch in
Coal Situation.
Washington, July 14.-Eepresenta-
| tiyeS of bituminous coal operators AS
| sociatiuns went into conference Win
| Secretary of Labor Davis, after con
| ferrng with Hugh kerwin, chief OF
| the bureau of Cancellation OF the de
partment Of labor.
| The conference was understood TO
| involve possible interpretations OF
| presiden; Harding's proposal 10 bring
| the nationwide coal strike 10 an END
| The operators included Harry Taylor.
! of Kansas City, president OF the Trans
| Mississippi Coal Association and The
| Southwestern Coal Association which
| embraces Mississippi, Kansas, Oklaho,
| ma. iowa. and Wyoming; ErSkin Ram,
| sew, of Alabama, and Joshua Norwood
| of Iowa Taylor has been the rool
| leader tha bitumnouS operators III
| their various conferences i'll Washing
| ION. since he coal strike situation he
| came acute.
| TAYLOR, after comforting with Secre
| larS Dayis for more than an hour, an
| bounced that the bituminOus operators
| would hold IL meeting Sunday evening
| 70 consider plans drafted by ii conIm.i
| tee designated to study President
| Harding's proposals, and thai rep,
| 10 the president, on behalf of the '.iiu
! min"us operators. would possibly III
| ready by Monday.
The action of tie anthracite oper;!t
| orS in agreeing in principle |" III
| presidents proposals would not, T.lH
| lor added. induce the Judgment or AZ
| ton of the bi1uminous operators.
Secretary Davis replied II critic:
| of The administration, who nave az
| cused federal officials of delay IN hand
| ling the coal strike situation, i'll ;
| letter addressed to Thomas ID. Mullins
! of Pittsburgh, which was made pubic
| al the department Of labor.
| There are those who say hat 9th
ers have acted more quickly. and viii
greater effect, in the past in situation
such as that which has arisen IN th
coal industry Davis said. The "nl
lime in which situation WAS amy
thing like parallel to tht of the pres
ent was during the Roosevelt admin
iStratiOn. and then, ii must be recalled
the, strike had been III progress 70
| twenty-Jhree weeks, with no signs O
relief.
Furthermore, not only was there
coal famine, but action was not take
until cold weather had actually arriy
ed 1t was very different from tn
situation Witch now cOnfrOntS th
country in the early part of July.
Another mitigating factor in tn
present situation was the accumulate
at the beginning of the strike, of
surplus supply of 65,OOOOO0 tons O
coal, which is being supplemented b
weekly production of 5,Oo0.OOo tons
There is no actual famine, and no con
ditiOn Of cold weather cOnfronts u.
and the strike has been in progress
only fifteen weeks. Personally, | fee
very optimistic, and certain that III
crisis has been reached, and that tn
firm stand taken by the president be
fore any suffering has occurred, wi
insure that the operation Of the mine
at full capacity will be resumed il
the near future"