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COAL FIELD SURVEY.
Executive Board Of Mine Work.
ers Meets to Discuss Pres
ent Conditions
VOTING FAvORS WALKOUT
by the Associated Press

Indianapolis. Ind, March 7.-Faciny
many problems arising particularly from
the threatened coal strike on April 1,
the Executive Board of the United Mine
workers of America met here today
win members expecting to confer again
on conditions prevailing in various coal
heids throughout the United States and
Canada.
No decisions affecting the strike pos.
SiDl!itles were expected TO be made by
the board. whose members said all such
matters we're to be referred 70 the
union $ policy committee. which is now
being formed. A meeting of this COM
nittee probably will be called before
April I.
Inc strike vote. which is to be COM
pleted by the miners next Friday. is
SAID 70 indicate n heavy vote favoring
Il walkout unless new wage agreement
Is reached. No figures were available.
but the board members referred TO what
they termed the general sentiment among
the workers.
Pittsburgh. March 7.-(By A. P.D-
Coal operators of the Pittsburgh dis
trlct Will meet their miners. union or
non union. to discuss working scale.
W. IL. Fields. president of the Pitts.
ourgh Coal Company, said today.
we have no objection to meeting
our men and preparing working
scale, said Mr.. Fields. but we don't
want TO meet the operators and miners
OF the central competitive field the
states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Our interests are not mutual. and IL
would be unfair to the operators and
miners of this district to try to force
situation which is not warranted by
SOUND economic principles. We are
not hghtng the union. We are simply
trying to put our business on a basis
that VIII be better for all concerned"
Washington. March THE National
Grange. through S. ]. Lowell. of Ere.
donna, \. T., master Of the organiza-
tion. composed of more than a million
farmers. launched here yesterday a ma
ton wide movement to arouse public
sentiment against coal strike.
In an open letter to be read at meet
lngs throughout the country this week
Mr.. Lowell warns the farmers that Il
coal strike. carrying with 1t the posi-
bility of railroad strike. would work
tremendous harm upon the agricultural
as well as other industries of the
country.
Harrisburg. March 7.-Miners and
employees in and about mines of Penn
sylvania who may be affected if n strike
Is called April l by the United Mine
Workers of America, although scattered
through thirty five counties. are more
concentrated in the anthracite than in
the bituminous regions.
Employment figures made public by
the State Department of Mines show
that three counties-Lackawann Lu-
zerne and Schuylkill--in the hard coal
region have large part Of the 40. III
anthracite workers within their bound
aries. In the Central and Western
Pennsylvania bituminous districts, how
ever. the 1S4.16S workers are more
evenly divided, one county, Fayette,
having more than 10000 employees,
while each of three others-Cambria,
Washington and Westmoreland - have
more than 10000. The others are scat
tered through the remaining twenty
one bituminous- producing counties.