New Britain herald., 1926-02-11
Scene Shifts To PhiIa- delphia Where Last Farley Failed Govt. Agencies Taking Ac- tive Interest.
Both Miners and Operators However, Deny Any thing Directly Is Pend ing Between Them.
MORE CLASHES IN
 SCRANTON DISTRICT

Philadelphia, Feb. II R)-Ano.her serious effort to end the long anthra- cite strike Is being made. This time the scene Is again in Philadel- phia where the operators and min CTS broke up their last barley on February ?.
 The negotiating committee of the operators and the sub-scale commit , tee of the miners are in Philadel- phia, but not in direct touch with each other. The operators are in the Ritz-Carlton hotel, while the miners are in the Bellevue-S -Stratford across the street.
 Denials Are Issued ' Both sides deny there Is anything directly pending between them. In fact, each gave the same reason for assembling here-"legislatiy mat ters"
 The negotiating committee of the operators with q number of other coal company representatives ar rived yesterday. John l.. Lewis, president and Thomas Kennedy, na- tional secretary-treasurer, came in early today and later the other four members of the miners committee arrived.
 If anything develops toward a settlement 1t Is believed it will come 1 from the operators side. The oper- ators' negotiating committee is in constant touch with other coal com pany representatives but whether the present movement will get any where is simply conjecture.
 Ready To Hear Terms
 If some new basis of settlement is decided upon among the coal com panies, it is expected 1t will be at once made known to the miners. The union leaders are here to con slider anything that might come from the mine owners. No engagements, so far as can be learned, have been made for Mir, Lewis and wv. Inglis. chairman of the operators negotiating com mittee to meet, nor for the full committees of the two sides to con fer.
 Alvan Markle, neutral chairman of the joint wage conference of min- CTS and operators, Is registered at the Union League club here, close to the Ritz-Carlton and Bellevie- Stratford. Thus the machinery for a conference is ready Many Reports Heard
 There were reports iH circulation in the anthracite fields yesterday that Mir. Inglis and Mir Lewis were in conference in Philadelphia. The Associated Press was in touch with both, Mir. Lewis in Wilkes-Barre and Major Inglis in Philadelphia and each stated that they had not seen one another or been in communica- ton since the recent Philadelphia conference.
 MT Lewis left his headquarters In Wilkes Barre last night with Mir. Kennedy without announcing their destination. Iii is known they were rot summoned by the operators but came to Philadelphia at the suggcs- ton of persons not on the operators negotiating committee. Today the suspension equals tho longest general strike in the history Of tho anthracite fields, that of 1902, which lasted from May 1c to october B.
 Government Is Watching
 Washington. Feb. II P-Agon-
 cies of the federal government are
 taking a very active interest in the
 renewed negotiations for peace in
 the anthracite industry. { Although President Coolidge ap-
 parenty is not prepared 10 aban-
 don his policy of non-intcrvention.
 inc mediators Of the labor depart ment are concerning themselves
 directly with the peace discussions,
 and proposed plans for settlement
 arc receiving scrutiny in official
 circles,
 From the start O. the suspension. 1 the government mediators have
 been in touch with both sides. un-
 der the plan Of mediation and con-
 ciliation provided by law. The ex- { tent 10 which they may have gone ! in suggesting a solution never has
 been disclosed. but it became ap- 1 parent today that all of the details 1 of the negotiations have at least 1 been considered here. and thai
 further compromise proposals now
 are under consideration in the la 1 bor department. ..-. Secretary Davis head Of this de- ! partment. discussed the situation
 today with President Coolidge. He said afterward that he knew Of no
 development that would indicate q
 change in the presidents hands-oit 1 policy. He declined to so into the i question of what the labor depart
 ment was doing under its general
 authority 10 mediate in labor diff | faculties.
 New Trouble Reported i Scranton, Pa, Feb. ii UPA-Two