Show TO WEAR VEAR EACH OTHER OUT r p Miners iners and Operators Practically Practically Practically cally in Deadlock at 14 v Indianapolis J RESPONSIBILITY RESPONSIBILITY 1 I 1 hS h'S s i hat Would 1111 lii In COM of or Si a i Gen Gen- J r I Strike StrIte tr II it 1 s' s Indianapolis Ind March 24 The The tl conference of miners Uti an and I oper- oper hel he has h nailed down to a n gan game t f I hI trying to 10 mal make e the he other fellow t tako the responsibility 6 f shutting oili oil off i further and er cr Mo Billa will vote voto for tor the other othor aides aide's j motions neither tilde side will tUl erO cro cross 4 th the tle i c and quit the game So It has hasl l become a case of t one ono hJo ol he the or-the other oilier wearing out Jilt T While Whilo the coal coni consuming public was on the th anxious seat scat and two million people back In the tho miners miners' homes In the camps over o the country were aching for fOJ n now 15 bearing on their living conditions during the next few fe months the operators sat tt In the palm paint room of oC the Cla Claypool pool hotel and amI 3 wrangled among amons- themselves Wh Uler to accept the Robbins proposition and til sign n the scale o of 1903 The fhe miners have become the Ow third party In a spirited fi fight ht between the Hobbins und and the Robbing anti operators The Tue Joint scale committee mot at 0 9 o'clock this morning and adjourned d at noon until 2 o'clock this afternoon The Tho continued until 5 G o'clock and thun thur adjourned until Monday morning at ot 9 3 o'clock Both the mmel's miner min mm- er els el's and operators were maneuvering t It In 11 1 nn nil rt a nc f formally i declaring lari a a disagreement imelL lt i- i mel mel-L Each waited for fUI tho th oth to move C an n adjournment 01 or to report u u. this dis f l a agreement Nothing was done Jone r Situation I Is Unchanged The Th situation tonight ht Is Unchanged was wan ready to lt ho 1903 scale Ial for or Ol his western tern a Pennsylvania lla mines In Ohio which SIr 1 In that district and anil also oi fo hits his hl r In III Ohio which product 1 tons ton a It year anti and for hit his hid JIJI- JIJI WIH OIK compan mines which an output of bf one million tons bus t i A. A Ml nd ht his In I the ic rii a 1101 maintained uncle 1 de would tf Jr e they Al I mines to protect prole th It lv markets koop their his hll mines t o Wt 1 not nol pay lY Uw ii vac I Ij r. r 11 Ino operate on JO Aho J I fee olt The ruin and Ohio operator nr stood arid and against paying on any tny Increase Aim net for forgotten otten were the miners They stood tood for fOI tho the r restoration of the 1003 1903 I 03 scale the Ic tho restoration le tora Uon ot of the tho t It reduction 1 re rr- they thy granted the Ull two years R ago ago or or for Cor a strike e Tonight there thero W was tas no certainty when a n Joint conference would bo be called The deadlock In the tho Joint scale alc meeting mn nay may I lust laM t It II It settles ettles down to n It test There hero seems to bh tin a general feeling feelIng feel lI lIIn In ing that the Interstate organization Is h going to tn pieces If the minor miners sign signa a n contract with that will break hi It If the Independents In the thc th western Pennsyl Pennsylvania Hold Held successfully successful ly w operate their mines on tho open opel they thov will Jar it and shop hop I i if IC the tho Ohio Indiana and operators makes no compromise It i U h gone Talk of or of oC the com corn complete Already there hero W hi talk of competitive piete organization re-organization districts placing Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania vanla and West Vest t Virginia lnla and und possibly 0 central Pennsylvania in into Ino o one ono dis- dis They compete for tho the trade of or orthe and Illi Illi- Illinois the thu Great La Lakes I Indiana an nois and possibly Ohio and Iowa for Cor central control market would competing I is thought be placed In tn another It Bought that If tho miners NI sign 11 with Robbins old ohl rules of or the tho or- or all of or the against ton It ml ht have hae tho effect effet line IIno If If IC Into of or forcing other op Jno It U might KM r that lint It failed fall d In disrupt the miners miners' organization lIon in inthe inthe Holds bituminous the Is more critical cr col and Tho Iho situation 1 complicated than It 1111 haY has heel bee i nt at any tonight hl week weck from time Ume One contracts amI bitUminous expire the tho committee the anthracite of almost which a 8 total I under labor labor- mine union miners new worl ens Ct'S are aro there are temporary tern tem I made or are arc a th the tH to operate arrangements IOl-ary IOl II 01 m final a aKre na pending mines will Quit null these mo men of or e all agreement a c ment Strike work worl and a R. n national J This I Is UW the situa- situa would bo 10 In workers nO the confronts lion that If tte strike comes In thin tho nit Sat Rat holds who whose e contract expire will quit lull nl night ht 8 1000 mAn In Inthe Is work If H U no r. r another field th the tools This non will vILi la ItLY down their III the 5 would menn people homes hornet of two million t Number of Men ls of The contracts without formal 1 o of U. U l ti bp boon n I made alle or the In n th tho J order for Cor a u u bring 85 W bituminous mines of oC ecU ecU- union men inca out nit o of he the lIln I 10 and ter out tut of oC 1 tho est l Indiana in lU t I 1 i f in 10 lo I out nut ut n Town auth in 1 in 11 Kentucky iO r In n i in anti and in the tho I Kansas Most of ot the thet Texas Arkansas as nod and strIke e. e on f Alabama a miners are noW t fI a tP J the Uti th lh wn s 's st t nt a year yent tt n cok ho t In m wages s 's would liSt il Ihl 1 11 luu III wa 11 ac- ac c- c C. C uI or 1 5 pet pEI two to Ef Efa a aP f mth by bv thc mt r Vi 1 tt lua ft t cl OO 6 OO OO L a l Jl OJ ar Lt bC to V IC d 11 I i. i U th tUtt add r c. c tron tO tn the tho lv Iv only about t rentS a v- v each ah ton of f fw J actual cost of ar are It th the w with 1 J make malu a 0 Mk hi r tOO JO o un III and the SaVi the rt- rt U tL n add Hi lC v v rna t. t total to men mn I V |