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Show 80,000 MINERS IN ILLINQISJTURN "Strike Ends With Victory" State President Says in His Order SPRINGFIELD. Ill July 31. Without With-out awaiting the order of Interni-tlonal Interni-tlonal President John L Lewis to reach the eighty thousand striking miners in Illinois, State President Frank Far- j rlngton today ordered the men to re- turn to work Monday. "The strike ends with a groat 1 1 -tory for Illinois miners," he suid. "the pledge of President Wilson that a Scale commission will be called and! wage Inequalities adjusted, satisfies J the miners' demands." The strike has been in effect about two weeks. In most sections, and at least a week in all mines Idle. Demands of more pay for ' shift men." were tho cause In hla message to the local unions Mr l eu Is repeated the telegram lie received last night from President Wilson insisting that the miners return re-turn and demonstrate "their good faith In keeping their contract " The president said when the miners returned re-turned he w ould ln ite the Joint scalo committee of miners and operators to reconvene to adjust any inequalities in wage scale agreement signed March 31 at New York Mr. Lewis today acknowledged President Wilson s message of last night. He told the president ho wao In pressed with the fairness of his suggestions sug-gestions and informed him of the telegrams tele-grams that had been sent to local unions un-ions ordering them to return to work 1 ( TORIES MAY CLOSE ST. LOUIS. July 31. Unless Improvement Im-provement is shown in the coal situation situa-tion here by dnc sda , all industrial plants, (. lais'al a 'non-cssc ntials" will bo asked by the emergency coal committee, com-mittee, appointed by the mayor during dur-ing the latest crisis, to shut down until un-til a sufficient supply of coal can be obtain. d MORI KANSAS MINERS IDLE PITTSBURG, Kan.. July 31 Twen-ty-slx mines, five more than yesterday, yester-day, were closed today as a result of the Saturday holiday assessment lev ied by the coal operators, it was reported tonight by the coal operators. Five other mines were closed for the Sat-urdav Sat-urdav hollda only. WHITE ROUSE IS SILENT WASHINGTON, July 31. Pending formal word as to the compliance of lilinois and Indiana soft coal miners with orders of their national organization organi-zation to return no steps were taken at the White House today toward inviting in-viting bituminous co 1 commission to take up the men's grievances. |