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Show UNITED MINE WORKERS WANT AYAGE INCREASE By Leased Wire to The Tribune. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. .lan. 15. The Fniled Mine Workers of America nre planning to demand a substantial wage advance after June 20. and If It Is not forthcoming thTn may bo a strike wl l..h will paralyze the coal Industry of the United States. Tho price of coal has already been increased, in-creased, but the miners claim Hie wages they receive art! so Incommensurate with the high cost of tho necessities of life that they are actually suffering. Coal men declare that tho coal which costs ST.fiO per ton In h5 .Julted Stales, cotts only $n.20 in cannda. President Thome L. Lewi-; nf the United Mine Woikors of America is !iojc. formulating the demands which will bo made to the operators by Um minors. |