The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-17

#EHtAOn HsC8uoG VI A AASN va SN%a grom it's captive pits. Company offt- eials said that the second furnace probably would be banked soon.
 Army regulars are reported ready ao take over the mines.
 Congress is anxious to act on anti- fUtrlke legislation.
 N And the next move in the con- troversy that has dragged on since Hate last summer is Mir. Roosevelt's.
 The strike In the captive" mines becomes effective at a. III. when .6s,O0O miners will not report for swork after the regular weekend sututdowl.
 United Mine Workers President aJohn l.. Lewis refused to extend Ethe deadline of a truce which had .kept the mines open and which eX- spired at 10:0l Q. m. Sunday, Three sdays of negotiations between Steel scompany officers and Lewis col- .lapsed late yesterday.
 Four Steps in View 1. Mir. Roosevelt has promised coli- .Rress that he would "see this thing A2hrough." One or more of four steps nppeared open to him:
 { 1, Order the army to seize the tmines.
 2. Ask congress for immediate anti-strike legislation,
 3, Request resumption of negotia- lions, directly or through arbitra- tion.
 x {. Appeal to the miners over the heads of their officers to return to atheir work as patriotic duty. Three union officials and three aeteel company officers tried all lWeek-end to settle the dispute, They will make separate reports of their failure this morning to the presi' dent who has postponed his de- parture for Warm Springs, Ga, be- cause of the situation.
 4 Before Lewis goes to the White Blouse he will meet Cat 9:30 Q. m) his 200-man policy committee and tel 1t that the steel companies have Fflatly rejected the unions demand Gor union shop--the only Issue.
 Lewis probably will be accompali. led to the White House by William Hynes and Patrick Pagan, UMWA representatives, who took part ID the weekend negotiations. I Steel company officials, who will give individual reports to the President, are Eugene C., Grace Gf Bethlehem Steel corporation, Ben- ,1amin Hairless of U. 8. Steel Corp. pration and Frank Purneu ot Youngstown Sheet and Tube com tpany,
 The union and company reports to Mr. Roosevelt are expected in fOiflcial quarters to be the straw" that will break presidential resist" ,ance to anti-strike legislation,
 Demand May Be Made Shortly after Lewis meets his pol- fey committee the House rules co!ll- mittee convenes to hear southern Democrats demand strong anti- strlkO legislation. New bills for deal- Ang with the labor situation are scheduled to be introduced in both the Senate and House at noon and many, of varying degrees of strin- gency already are pending.
 Congress is eager for presidential sanction to act. Passage of ad- mlnistration approved legislation would be quick-possibly in less Shan c week.
 Closing of the captive" mines is expected to strengthen the demands of those who interpreted House passage of the neutrality amend BnentS as 0 promise of strong ad- sninigtration action in the pending labor disputes.
 President Roosevelt has made no threat to use the army in the coal fields. Many of his closest advisers are against 1t. None has indicated get how the government would Op- crate the mines if 1t seized them.
 Mir. Roosevelt conferred Saturday, however, with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Maj. Gen. Robert c. Richardson, commander of the Seventh Corps Area of Bir- mingham, Ala. -- the heart of the "captve" mine fields.
 Miners still recall the bloody clashes that resulted from the use of troops in West Virginia in 1919 and in Pennsylvania in 1922. The miners refused to dig coal under hayonets then and a few believe they would do otherwise now. Appeal May Fail
 An appeal by MT. Roosevelt over the heads of union officers might also be ineffective in getting the men to return to work. Y The other possibility - continued negotiations or abitration ap- pcared to offer little hope. Both union and steel representatives re- ported absolutely no chance" of an agreement after three days of ne. gotiations.
 Lewis said there was mo agree ment" on the Presidents suggestion that the issue be submitted to ar- bitration. lis position was that the union was not prepared to accept anything less than the union shop.
 President Roosevelt repeatedly has emphasized that he is prepared to take strong sction in the coal dead- lock which might force a virtual shutdown of vital steel mills with fin 10 days to two weeks.
 Late yesterday afternoon Lewis gtrode from. the conference room where he had met for three days with the steel executives. In the 6imly-lit hotel corridor he told re- porters:
 'AThe conferences are concluded. No conclusions have been reached. We will make separate reports to the President tomorrow"
 The position of the steel execu- tives was that they would only make an agreement on an open shop ba- eis," he continued.
 'The position of the United Mine Workers was that the steel execu- tives should accept the Appalachian agreement (containing the union ehop, according to the rule of the SEdustry."
 Fairless. Grace and Purnell Ee- mained in the conference room.
 Fairless acted as spokesman: We QufIf reDoFt at the president's con-