Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-07-22
MINE OPERATORS To
Be GIVEN 10 DAYS
TO REOPEN SHAT is.
OCEAN TONNAGE BEING GIVEN
OVER ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY
TO IMPORTATION OF COAL
FROM ENGLAND AND WALES.

Chicago, July o. Developments in
the coal strike situation today includ.
! ed.
Washington officials prepared to
give miners and operators ten days
to two weeks to try out President
IIardng's plan before taking any dras-
! tic action.
Secretary Hoover expects an opin.
ion from the attorney general tonight
on the legal rights of his plan for
priority orders and price maintenance
Of coal shipments.
Philadelphia utilities are buying
coal in Great Britain.
President Harding conferred with
Chairman Hooper of the railroad la.
Dor board to obtain full information
on the strike
Michigan Central maintenance of
way men obtained an agreement with
the road to restore the wages in ef-
feet prior to July |.
President Gompers Of the American
Federation of Labor sent kilograms
to the striking miners and shopmen's
heads pledging sympathy and coop
Grafton
Devise Distribution Plan.
The federal government concentrate |
ed its activities in the coal strike sit |
uatiOn today in devising means of dis. |
tribution to best advantage the ma
tons dwindling coal supply and of
adding to it in every possible way,
Indications were that steps along
these lines would be continued during
the One-day or tWO-week period which
the government mas decided upon as
a test of the efforts Of the operators
to produce coal in accordance with
President Harding's invitation
Two departments of the govern.
ment, the commerce and justice de-
partments were at work on a plan of
coal distribution thru central com
mttee sitting in Washington and act.
ing thru local committees in the prin-
cipal production centers.
import Coal From England.
Vice-President Smull of the U. s.
board announced that forty
ships with a coal carrying capacity of
10000 tons monthly had been char
cred to import coal from Wales and
he east coast of England. These
'esSels in practically every instance ,
low are in European waters and soon
viii begin arriving in Atlantic ports
With their cargoes. Thirty-one Brit
sh vessels also have been chartered
n the coal carrying trade and should
,e able to bring 100000 tons a month
additional to American ports. Mr..
Snul1'c o1JoJ tI,,+ 8
he government so desired apprOXim-
t"ly 300 ships belonging to the ship
,ing board and now tied up because
If the surplus of ocean tonnage could !
,e placed in operation and thus il the
oal were available bring 100000 I
ons monthly to American ports in adj
lition to the supplies to be brought by
he vessels now in service. e
Farrin1ton Silent on Re-Openinu. +
Springfield. ILL.,. July Ply the A I
, ')-Pre3ijent Frank harrington of d
he Illinois mine workers. who arrived c
~ Srrirofeld this morning, announced I
hat he had not been requested to con b
or with Acting Governor Fred f. Ster. I
ing and that no request was on his
o"t when he arrived here :,
Mr.. Harrington indicated he was =
Wiling to aid the governor in what u
N,r way he could honOrably as state a.
hief of the mine workers a
Regarding the coal strike situation -
nd the possibility Of re-Opening the :,
lines of the state, and the prospect
f a separate wage conference with
illinois operators. Mr.. Harrington q
aid he had mot thing to say" -
Lewis on Secret Mission. -
New York. July 22-John l.. Lewis -
resident of the United Mine Workers -
f America. in New York on a mission q
he nature of which he declined to re- "
cal, secretly left the city today It
'as intimated he had gone to Penn =,
ylvania to confer with mine leaders -
1 the anthracite region. =,
Troops at Cokeburg, Pa. :,
COkeburg. Pa, July 22.-TrOops of u
he One Hundred and Fourth Penn "
ylvania Cavalry arrived here this
lorning. It was understood that fiela a.
would be established / =,
ere. y
Want Mine Law Changed. n
Chicago. July 22.-Thc Illinois Man u
facturers' Association today tele ID ID
raphed Governor Small asking him
D call a special session Of the legis-
lture to amend the state mining code
0 permit operation of mines. and also
ent letters to every members of tho
legislature asking their support fOr "
he move. The manufacturers also al