Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-08-28
P|NCHOT HEARS
COAL TROUBLES
Second Day of Intervention
Brought Leaders of Opera
tors Into Conference
MAY OFFER COMPROMISE
Expected to Meet the Repre-
Sentatives of the Miners
Late this Afternoon

HARRISBURG. Pa, Aug. % (By
The Associated Press). - Governor
Pinchot's second day of Intervention
in the threatened anthracite suspen-
sion today brought him into execu-
I tive session with the employers in
the industry which is threatened
with shutdown September /.
Miners union officials who have
issued notice to the $4,000 miners
to cease work at midnight, August
81, explained yesterday to the gov
ernor the reasons which have ac-
tuated them in refusing to proceed
with wage contract negotiations
which might allow anthracite pro-
duction to continue.
Other than to serve notice upon
both sides that the public interest re-
quired and would obtain a settle
ment of the issues without a stop
page in coal supply, Governor Pin
| chot has held his peace. His atti-
tude, he said, so far is that of an
official who is first hearing repre-
sentations from all concerned. At
the second meeting with the union
| leaders, which will come late today,
| it is suggested that he may take the
| initiative and offer a compromise
upon which he will ask their view.
The governors call for an eleventh
hour conference, issued after the
union had gone out for a suspension
of work by its 15S, 900 supporters in
| the anthracite region, brought be-
fore him exactly the same men who
| have faced each other frnitlessly in
negotiations of greater or less dura-
! tion on three occasions during the
past six weeks. They were: S. d.
| Warriner, A. B. Jessup, w. ]. Rich
ards, and w. w. Inglis, for the gem
eral policy committee of anthracite
miners, and Phillip Murray, vice
president OF. the United Mine Work
ers,. and Rinaldo Cappellini, C. J.
! Golden and Thomas Kennedy, the
unions three anthracite district pres
! idents. John L. Lewis, president
| of the union, left Atlantic City last
night for Philadelphia, where he is
at hotel with his family. Mr..
Lewis Is slightly indisposed.
! The viewpoints the miners and
! operators brought to Governor Pin
chot's mediation effort likewise were
unchanged. On every point the en-
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! union, demanding a wage increase
| of 20 per cent for piece rates per
ton for mining coal and 50 per day
for day employees. and seeking the
"check Off system for collecting
dues, has only one tentative compro-
mise offer standing. That calls for
the granting of the "check-off" de-
| mand by the operators, their accept
ance of the principle that wage in
| creases are necessary and their abol-
| ition of all but eight-hour day en-
| ployment. With these concessions,
1t was said, the union officials would
| allow the mines to work while nego-
! tiations resumed, but the conditions
never have wo acceptance.
| PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2S:--J ohm
| L. Lewis, international president of
! the United Mine Workers, who shift
ed his headquarters from Atlantic
City to Philadelphia last night, said
today he did not expect to go to the
Harrisburg negotiations unless his
presence is imperatively needed.
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