OCR Text |
Show THREATENED FUEL FAMINE. Million British Miners Still Out and Germans to Follow Suit, While Americans May Also Strike. New York. A world-wide strike of coal miners is regarded by the coal trade as more than a likelihood if the negotiations now in progress between the anthracite and bituminous workers work-ers and their employers in this country coun-try do not result in a settlement of working conditions. With more than a million coal miners min-ers on strike in Great Britain and 150,000 miners in Germany voting to quit work to force higher wages, a severe coal shortage in Europe is faced. The anthracite coal operators are drafting their reply tothe hard coal workers here for presentation to the miners, while next week at Cleveland Cleve-land the bituminous operators and their employees will confer for the purpose of trying to bring about an adjustment of conditions in the soft coal fields. |