Evening star., 1922-07-29
MINERS GET RAISE
UNDER AGREEMENT
-
Pact Signed in Three Small
Fields Restores 1920 Scale,
Union Men Declare.
WORK WILL CONTINUE
Men Affected Did Not Join Ma.
tion-Wide Strike, Remaining on
Job With Understanding.
By the Associated Press.

By the Assocat ted Press
CHICAGO. JUL 29.-Coal mining viii
be continued in three small fields. con-
trolled by the Kentucky Tennessee Coal
Operators Association under an agree
| ment said to be the first reached be-
tween the unions and operators since,
| The coal strike began.
Miners Of district 19 did not join the
strike. The new contracts provide an
increase in pay.
District 19 headquarters, United
Mine Workers, announced the agree
ment as restoring the 1920 scale, but
as given out by the operators. the
agreement is with "individuap' mIn-
ers and does not recognize the
unions. The mines are in the PIuc-
vile district, along the Tennessee
Central railway and near Nashville
and they employ 5000 men.
Miners and operators Of another
Kentucky district, around Middles-
pectation of signing a similar agree
ment.
Plans Being Pushed.
In the chief producing districts INC
central competitive field, there was u"
4. immediate sign of agreement, al
though union leaders insisted that
plans were going forward for a gen
eral conference toward reaching iae
only kind of an agreement the NM
! ers will accept-one covering lHe
whole field
| Federal and state officials continued
preparations for distribution Of coal
under government supervision.
Appointment by President Hardin;
! of Henry B. Spencer as federal iIrl
| distributor and the appointment -
were taken by coal men here TO mean
! that the federal government would
not halt Its plan TO control distr5ou-
! tion of foodstuffs and fuel. despite th
| fact that the outlook of peace WAS
considerably brighter.
States Must Try First
Oficials at Washington have ind =
Gated that states which have large
coal deposits viii be expected to cN-
haust all efforts to dig their own coal
federal government.
The administration believes that
there will be settlement of the
strike and that the countrys fuel
needs will be supplied. No special ef-
forts are being made to supply any
particular section, according to Of
| ficials, who declare that the federal
governments task is 10 see that the
nation as a whole does not suffer
from lack of fuel
Declares Peace in sight.
Frank harrington, head of the
United Mire Workers in Illinois, was
in Philadelphia today for confer
ence with John l.. Lewis and other
union conferees. Mr.. Lewis, who IS
international president of the miners
union. was still insistent that peace
was in sight. and again said that
! powerful influences We're at work
10 end the walkort. He also declared
that no settlement would be made in
the anthracite fields until an agree
ment had been reached in the contral
competitive fields. which included the
! mines of Illinois, Chic, Pennsylvania,
Michigan and Indiana.
Mining of coal has been resumed IN
mines OF Washington county, "a, ana
| in Indiana Gov. McCrac asked that
sufficient number of men be permitted TO
return to work to provide coal Tor state
institutions and public utilities.
Gov. Taylor of Tennessee was asked
for troops by the sheriff of Claiborne
| county. The sheriff said that striking
miners were terrorizing citizens.
Officers of the Kentucky National
| Guard detachment sent to the Yellow
| Creek mines. in Bell county. to pre-
vent a threatened clash, reported that
all was quiet.
Four Homes Dynnmited.
| A report from Walsall, Pa. said
/ that the homes of four working min
, ers there had been dynamited.
! The Federal Reserve Bank at St
Louis reported that continuance of
the coal strike for a much longer pc
riod would result in serious incon-
venience and higher costs.
| The Wisconsin state fuel committee
! today issued it's first priority order.
/ Priority orders will proba bly, be is
| sued today, members of the committee
said, permitting cheese factories and
creameries to obtain coal. IT is SAID
! that the important dairy industry
! would be injured unless coal could be
obtained with which to operate the
| plants in the big milk-receiVing CEN
! ters.
| CONFER AT PHILADELPHIA