New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-15
A dded Subway
Service To Be
Delayed a W eek
Wo0din Asks Transit Conn
mission TO Retain Present
Schedule While He Inves-
tigates the Fuel Situation
Increase Trains Sept. 25
Warriner Refutes Charge of
Gompers That Operators
Profiteered i'm the Strike

Increases in service ON the INTERIOR
ough and the B. r. r., which were to
have become effective on Monday, have
been postponed for a week to Septem
Der 25, at the request of William II.
Woodin, State Fuel Administrator. The
Transit Commission granted the extern
sion in response to a letter from Mr..
Woodin in which he pointed out that
the service increases would entail a
substantial increase in fuel consump-
tion and, although the companies have
adequate coal supplies for present re-
quirements, he desired an additional
week to complete his investigation into
the regularity with which future coal
shipments can be obtained.
With both the anthracite and the
bituminous mines going full blast Mr..
Woodin said in his letter there may
be some difficulty in insuring regu-
lar deliveries of coal owing to the
drain on the fuel handling capacity
of the railroads. This problem and the
question of just to what extent the
stocks of bituminous will have TO be
drawn on for household purposes are
being studied. Mr.. Woodin asked for
the delay of a week on the service
orders SO that the investigation could
be completed and an opportunity af-
forded for comforting with the Transit
Commission.
Companies Are Notified
Transit Commi ssioner Leroy e..
Hardness replied that the commission
considered the request entirely rea-
srnable and had notified the companies
Of its action. A conference between
members of the Transit Commission
and Mr.. Woodin will probably be held
within a day or two.
Blame for the five months anthra-
cite coal strike was placed squarely on
the shoulders of officials of the miners
union, in a statement issued by Samuel
D. Warmer, spokesman for the anthra-
cite operators, in answer to President
Samuel Gompers of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor In speech at At
lantic City on Wednesday Mr.. Gompers
had assailed the operators and had
charged that they were using the strike
to profteer and liquidate surplus
stocks.
Says Operators Protested
The cessation of mining on April /,
while negotiations between the union
and the operators were still in prog
ress, was protested against by the
operators, Mr.. Warmer declares in his
statement.
"The facts with regard to the be-
ginning and continuation of the anthra-
cite strike wholly refute Mr.. Gompers' s
assertions" Mr.. Warmer insists in his
statement. "At our very first meeting
with the miners on March 81 last to
negotiate new wage scale there was
presented to us a notice of suspension
of mining on April l. We protested
against this action as unnecessary and
wholly unjustiied in view of the fact
that we were then entering upon nego-
tiations during which mining could and
should be continued.
"Our protests were ignored, as were
also our proposals for arbitration and
mediation. In like manner the pro-
posals of President Harding to end
the strike were rejected by the miners,
although accepted by u.s.. 1t was not
until the bituminous strike had been
settled that the miners representatives
evinced any disposition whatsoever
seriously to discuss a settlement Of the
anthracite strike.
AT time when the anthracite in
dustry and the public are brought face
to face with the enormous cost of five
months idleness in the anthracite
fields it is outrageous that any one
should contend that the responsibility
for this idleness and loss rests upon
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