New Britain herald., 1925-08-12
SUGGEST PLAN 10 PREVENT WALKOUT
Joint Management Proposed to
 Operators and Miners

mana sElltVl anu llN lSlYl bL lEbll's by mine sxecutiles and workers was suggested today by the social action department of the National Catholic Welfare conference, IS compromise 70 avoid a cessation ot work in the anthracite industry.
 A statement by the organization said that under cooperative manage ment the miners could relnquish their demand for 10 per cent wage increase and executives could grant the check.off. while the questions of arbitration and political intervention also would be obyiated.
 Soft Coal Issue Too
 Atlantic City. Aug, F OP, - The United Mine Workers Of America expect any government intervention aiming 70 avert or shorten hard coal suspension September 1 10 con- sIder their grievances in the soft coal industry as well, it is learned on reliable authority.
 Redress of alleged wrongs, grow ing out of what the miners say IS wholesale wage cutting and repudia- ton of the Jacksonville agreement in bituminous coal territory, has be- come virtually the unions price Of peace in the anthracite fields, &C., cording 10 this information
 Hard coal mine owners have been asserting that the miners union planned such dual alliance in ad- vance Of the scale negotiations which the miners broke of a week ago yesterday.
 Miners officials today empha'iCal- iy denied this. They said the hard coal break has merely ahsol1ed them from their pledge to the operators 10 keep hard coal and soft coal prob-
 ems divorced, freed, they mean 10 invoke any public tribunal appearing with jurisdiction 10 consider grievances in the coal industry. 4 tribunal they declared competent 10 .intercede in behalf of hard coal con- sumers, should he competent also 10 intercede in behalf of aggriayed soft coal miners
 What will happen f the eypecta- tions of the United Mine Workers were not met vas described as prob ematical Both President John L. Lewis and Van 4 Blttner. his chief organizer in West Virginia havL warned of national shutdown of coal miners if the alleged rapudia- tions of the Jacksonville agreement were not rectifed,
 | Herbert Hoover. secretary Of cor1- merce, union officials sad has not | yet replied 10 a telegram to this ef- feet sent by Mir Bittner. Philip Murray, international vice president. accordingly remained away. T. vas said, from the conference Mir. Hoov- : CT called in Washington last week 10 discuss reorganization of the L. s. bureau Of mines.
 Large bituminous coal operators contend that the Jacksonville agree ment is impractcable because West Virginia non-union miners paving lower scale can Undersell them. II Is for the union miners themselves : " uSNlIE !lHllltT 10 accept NIEe reduction, and remain al work they say, or insist upon the higher scale the operators formerly agreed 10 pay, and he idle,
 The union replies the operators know that the only factor affecting production is the amount of coal the market Hill take, This IS fixed figure, it says. and you'd not he in creased by 0age cut. Such cut if ras said, would merely mean re- duced income for the miners.
 The union further cites from re cent coal history that the Jackson vile agreement was sponsored. not hy the union, but the T. s. govern ment as represented by Secretary Hoover That is one reason why the government, f it acts in hard coal, nov, will he asked to extend its purview 10 take in the evil days upon which its offspring has fallen. it vas said
 Until the government takes action, how ever. according to the union po- sition, the union vilI insist that union operators live un 10 their sign led agreement,