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Show FOURTEEN PER CENT ADVANCE WILL NOT SATISFY, LEADER SAYS By Universal Service. CHICAGO, Dec. S. Acceptance of the government's ofier of a 14 per cent increase in-crease in wages by John L. Lewis, acting act-ing presiden t. and other officials of tiie mine workers" union will not end the coal strike, according to Illinois labor leaders. They said today trie men would hold out for a Zl per cent increase. "This is not a strike of officials, but 9 cohesive movement of miners themselves." said Duncan McDonald, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor. "The miners must be given at least the 31 per cent increase, and, unless that is granted soon, they wi;I he compelled to revise their demands de-mands upward.-' James H. Bridgeman. president of tho Peoria local miners' union, said mine workers in his district would not accept the 11 per cent increase as a settlement. "The offer is not fair," he said. "Tne onlv fair basis for a strike settlement was consideration of Secretary Wilson's 31 per cent increase." George J. Little, sheriff of Marion county, coun-ty, one of the big coal-producing counties of Illinois, predicted if a settlement - was not reached at Indianapolis tomorrow tii ere would he a break in the miners' ra nks and man- of them would return. He said local officials had been expc ri-eneing ri-eneing difficulty in keeping the men from eoinr to ork a nd th.i r the prospect of f urt aer negotiations and delay would ro d'.S'-ourage many of the miners that they would report tor work under the 14 per cent proffer. |