Show COAL OPERATORS I IARE ARE NOT UNITED Signs of a Break in th Deadlock With the Miners iners O Over er erthe the Wage Scale ONE MAN MAN WilliNG TO PAY HEATED DISCUSSION AT THE CONFERENCE Indianapolis March dead look between the coal operators and the miners of the central competItive and southwestern dIstricts continued throughout the meeting of the two joint conferences today and when the meetings adjourned late this afternoon no agreement had been reached Both committees will meet again tomorrow morning I The discussion In tho scale committee ot of the central competitive district was confined entirely today to arguments regarding the operators on the commit tee and radical were expressed by them The miners representatives were for tor the most part silent audi tore tors An effort was made to secure from President Mitchell o of the Mine Workers an a expression as to whether lie be consIdered the Ryan in effect This resolution was adopted by the former joint cont conference In Md and binds the tha miners not to sign In any distrIct until an agreement shan shall have been reached in every district Mr Mitchell declined to commit him himself self Robbins the Target F L RobbIns Bobbins one or of the western Pennsylvania operators was the target today for tor several vigorous attack on hIs position In favor of paying the tho scale of bt 1903 whIch would mean an ad advance advance vance of per cent in wages in the distrIct and would comply with the de mauds of the minors miners Mr stated on the floor that he did not propose to be dictated to by the tho opera operators tors ot of IllinoIs Indiana and Ohio He said his position was waa fair fairand fairand and just to aU all Interests and the Pitts burg Coal company which he represented was wag willing to pay the advance in wages ages asked He said he was also I pay the advance at his own mines In Pennsylvania Ohio and and he had received notice from froman an Illinois coat coal company havIng an output of tons annually that it had Instructed its representatIve to vote yote with him Made straight Talk Mr Robbins Bobbins said the country would not permit a general strike upon tnt the causes shown He turned to President Mitchell ot of the Mine and said he did not believe the officials of th the miners would dare to refu refuse e to allow the minors miners to work where their do mands were met G A Magoon representing the west western ern em Pennsylvania independent opera operators tore tors said It If the Pittsburg Coal corn com company pany paid the tho advance and operated its mines the independent operators ot of western PennSYlvania would do the tho same sam e eThe The discussions among the operators became so heated that representatives of the miners were asked to withdraw or ap an hour ThIs was done and at atthe atthe the end of the period adjournment ot of the commIttee was taken until tomor tomorrow row rw morning The operators arranged for a conference by states among thorn them themselves selves tonight After the general caucus leading op operators operators said tonight that nothing hack hau been accomplished and the sItuation was exactly as It was wa at the begin beginnIng beginning nIng or of the joint c conference |