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Show MINE WORKERS 00 NOT SEETHE POINT operators and worker8 arb in an apparent dead- Lock over situation Meetings Are Being Held Dally In Order to Find If Possible, Means of Getting Men Back to Werk Washington. All hope of gcttlnft the striking conl miners back to work this week was abandoned by ndmtn istratloa loadors Sunday when the Joint conference of oporators and miners adjourned in what appeared to be a hopeless deadlock. The rock upon which the conference again split was the fundamental point for which Uio miners are contending, contend-ing, namely, that the new contracts shall be based on Uio central competitive compe-titive field at once. Tlie conference has not progressed In Its deliberation beyond the consideration of Uio basis of settlement. The miners positively refuse to budge from their position In Uio matter of contract, insisting on Interatato contract Inatcad of lado-pondent lado-pondent district settlement. Sunday, however, there was a show, down in both camps, tho operators voting against conferences basod on the central competitive field and Uie miners voting against tho proposition of independent conferences In each district At the close of Uie coference, Secretary Sec-retary of Commerce Hoover and Secretary Sec-retary of (Labor Davis issued this statement; "Upon suggesUons for further separate sep-arate meetings of the operators and miners for further consideration of methods the conference adjourned. Immediately after adjournment Uie miners were called Into executive session ses-sion by President John L. Lewis and ros&alned behind closed doors for nearly two hours. The operators ad-Joaraed ad-Joaraed to the roof of Uie Hotel Washington and both sides reviewed the deliberation to dote. Whether or not Uie government has submitted a counter-proposition waa not announced, nor waa It denied. That there had been general discussion discus-sion of other ways and means to achieve the purpose of the conference was admitted. As Secretory of Davis left the Bed Cross building he laughingly remarked that "both sides have voted on thetr own soparate propositions nnd each has rejected the others plan, so it is now) .probable Uiat they can agrea upon." That was the only note of optimism In Sunday's proceedings. The confer, enco was cnlargod by tho Inclusion of Josoph (Pursoglovo, nn independent operator who hns been openly la favor fa-vor of a scttlomcnt on Uio Interstate basis and James Morgan, district secretary sec-retary of tho Wyoming district. Following ho CQnforonco of miners' min-ers' representative it wns reported that Uio miners contendod thnt If they abandoned tho question of contract they would weaken thotr causo. Only directly has tho economic quostlon socn touched upon, both sldos clinging tenaciously to tho quostlon of sottlomont as being paramount Action by tho conforonco to bo binding on either side inunt bo by unanimous vote. As organized, tho operators have a slight numerical nd-vantage nd-vantage In the conforonco, but this Is not consldored Important becauBO of tho necessity of unanimous action. The minors nre also proceeding on the theory thnt another conforenco will follow in tho ovont tho conferences confer-ences succeeded In "devising the agency agen-cy for nffoctlng a olutlon" of Uie problems, pro-blems, ns President Harding expressed It A so-callod Independent group of oporators, claiming to represent 20,-000,000 20,-000,000 tons production, forced Uio oporators previously accredited to the conference to rocognlzo thorn. |