New Britain herald., 1925-08-28
MINERS AGREE
 WITH OPERATORS
tContinued From First Fsse)

lCohtlhued From First F5Be) that the suspension will be of short duration, although the people are tightening their grip on their say- lnes Il anticipation of continued idIenoss.
 Members of tho ctizens' commit Ice, headed by John II. Uhl. whose activities during tho last few days were the only hopo of ayerting a sus- pension, went in,o session this aft- ernoon 10 receive reports. It is ex- recled the committee will keep in touch until settlement is reached.
 Philadelphia, Aug. 2S Pl-The suspension order. effectiNe Sept. 1, involving 15S.0o0 men and S2S mines, was issued last night by John l., Lewis. president of the United Mine Workers of America.
 Your scale committed" read the call made public at tho miners headquarters at the Hotel Bellevue Stratford, charged with the re- sponsibility of making a new con tract, has been unable to arrive at any understanding as affecting wages or conditions of employment to be effective after Aug. S1. 1925. There fore, our membership in District Nos. 1, z and is advised that no contract being in effect, a suspen- sion of mining will automatically take place at midnight Monday, Aug. .3l, 1995."-
 W. w. lnTlis, chairman Of the op- orators scale committee. with which the miners broke off negotiations at Atlantic City on Aug. 1, pronounced the suspension call entirely un- more than $l oo0,O00 a day in wages, necessary" The men would lose he said; business conditions in, the region would be upset, and the hard coal market as q whole was sure to be still further invaded by fuel substitutes.
 Mir. lnslis expressed belief that failure 10 win the miners to mo strike" pledge pending the thresh- ing out of differences had been due to their preoccupation with soft coal problems. Many bituminous coal operators are now refusing to abide by the union contract signed in 1924 because they say the wage it fixed has now become prohibitive.
 "Thc feeling is growing" said MT. Tnglis, that the union policy is dom- mated by it's greater concern in soft coal affairs. That was admitted t0 be the case in 1922 and it looks as though it were true today"
 He called the unions refusal to work without d contract satisfactory in all respects, "a relic of the dark ages of unionism." Arbitration was the sole salvation in the present day and age, he said.
 President Lewis for the miners, said the union had waited as long as it could in hope that the opera tors would modify their refusal 10 treat on demands involving in- creased production cost. He said with only a few days remaining in which 10 notify the 325 union locals in the anthracite region before Sept, 1 the call had to be in tho mail last night.
 The unexpected debate on control of maintenance men vest tcrday at the meeting ot tho anthracite board of cancellation raised that question for the first time. It was raised now, miners said. because of past abuses in thc treatment of these men which they did not wish repeated.
 In the past they alleged, operators had occasionally replaced union men in maintenance jobs with men paid hy tho month. and had also skcle- tonized work performed normally by three shifts, so it was performed by one shift. The one shift, they said, was expected to do in eight hours what inc three had done in 24. This controversy will be aired anew to- day and until it Is settled the mines will be threatened by losses after Sept 1 running into the hundreds of thousands from water, gas and general deterioration.
 The September suspension IS not regarded as a calamity by operators or miners, to judge from their per sonal talk; providing 1t is short one. Miners attribute the operators ability to bear up under the iroSpect 10 the profits already acCuring from the stimulated demand for their "steam sizes" of coal at enhanced prices, Operators, on the other hand, say that anglers and mimrods among the miners hearing the call of September forests and streams provide the bulk of the suspension sentiment in union halls. 1n other words. they welcomed a "yacation' once year as much as the office worker, it was said.
 Sperculation is already developing here as to what outside intermediary will eventually appear to bring the two warning sides together, and make the, walkout short" The name ot Governor Pinchot Is mem tioned frequently In miners Circles. Operators have not openly expressed themselves.
 LSNTZ SUED FOR Si0o
 Carl F. Iantz has been named as