Evening star., 1925-08-27
MINE STRIKE CALL
IS DUE TONIGHT AS
MEDIATION FAILS
Union Scale Committee Is in
Session Arranging Details
of Suspension Order.
HOPE OF CITIZEN GROUP
FOR DEFERMENT DASHED
Government Estimates Hard Coal
Supply Is Sufficient to Last
Until December.
By the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA. August 27.-The
midnight appeal Wilkes-Barre citizens
made to the miners here that the lat
ter resume scale negotiations with the
operators will have no influence upon
plans the miners have under way for
a suspension in the anthracite coal
fields September l, according TO au-
thoritative comment today.
The actual call for a suspension is
expected to be issued by the miners
scale committee as soon as all details
for keeping maintenance men" In the
mines have been arranged at meetings
with the mine owners here.
Various technical questions arising
at the meeting today have prolonged
discussion of the maintenance prob
lem. The discussion is said to have
shown some signs of heat, and the un-
certainty of it's exact duration is said
10 be all that makes the time of the
suspension call problematical.
Hope proved Short-lived that the
miners out of courtesy might defer
their plans until John II. Uhl, the
spokesman of the Wilkes Barre mo
strike" group, had had another chance
20 try TO arrange some reopening of
The negotiations broken off August 4.
Strike Call Due Tonight.
The tremendous engineering aspect
of a mine shutdown, it was explained,
made it virtually imperative that the
call to the many union locals scat
tered throughout the 10 anthracit
counties be placed in the mail by to-
night. The tasks of bringing mine
mules to the surface and the rounding
up of mine tools are in themselves jobs
that take time, it was explained
John L. Lewis. president of the
Miners International Union, was in
closed conference with his lieutenants
at the Hotel Bellevue Stratfords and
the only word coming from them was
to counsel patience.
Mr.. Lewis, with Phillip Murray, in
ternational vice president, and Thomas
Kennedy, international secretary
treasurer, were understood to be hold
ing themselves in readiness TO Join
Rinaldi Cappellini, Andrew Mattey
and c. ]. Golden, district presidents.
The six comprise the miners scale
subcommittee which will decide on the
matter of suspension.
Delivered Operators Terms.
Uhl overlook President Lewis here
early this morning after a 125-mile
pursuit by automobile from Hazleton,
Pa.
AS chairman of the citizens mo
strike" committee of 13. Mr.. Uhl de-
livered to Mr.. Lewis recapitulation
which anthracite operators made in
Wilkes Barre yesterday of the terms
on which they would reopen the scale
negotiations broken off by the miners
in Atlantic City, August 4.
Mr.. Uhl obtained from the miners
leader a restatement of the miners
terms. 1t reiterated the stand Mr..
Lewis had taken at Hazleton on Tues
day, but matched the new tone of the
operators commitment and noticeably
encouraged Mr.. Uhl, who, with Ralph
A. Amerman, a Scranton, Pa, banker,
who had accompanied him, returned at
once to Wilkes Barre, and approached
the operators, on what possibilities the
Lewis reply might contain.
1t now seems that the mediation is
hopeless.
Opposing Views Aired.
W. w. IngIis, chairman of the op-
orators scale conference, at a con-
ference with the Uhl committee in
Wilkes-Barre yesterday, said the op-
orators were willing to renew n.go-
tiations provided Mr.. Uhl arranged
a conference, and provided lit is dis
tinctly understood that we have not
agreed to abandon our opposition to
the check-off and wage increases"
Referring to Mr.. Inglis' statement
Mr.. Lewis today reiterated the fol-
lowing statement he had made at
HaZleton.
IF they will withdraw their state
ment on record in the conference
that they will yield nothing and re-
ject everything that disturbs the
factor of mine cost, then there can
be negotiations.
Then he added
If the operators Will meet this
condition affirmatively the mine work
ers will be glad Immediately to ne
gotiate.
If their reply is in the negative
then it is obvious negotiations would
be utterly futile
PLANS FOR SUPPLY.