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Show MINERS AND OPERATORS AGAIN IN IMPASSE; DIGGERS' MODIFIED DEMANDS ARE REJECTED; TREATY MAYBE TRANSFERRED TO 1920 BATTLE SEGRETARY AGAIN STEPS INTOJBREACH Cabinet Officer Presents New Proposal for Sct-! Sct-! tlement; to Be Consid-i Consid-i ered at Meeting Today. Offer by Lewis to Accept Ac-cept 40 Per Cent Wage Increase and Seven-Hour Seven-Hour Day Is Refused. j WASH NGTOV. Nov. 21. Sere ' itarv of Labor Wilson -.J to tbe front again tonight in an effort to bring miners and ojeralors togeUtfji after a jroKiss by each ride bad been rejected and the slate wiped clean. Mr. Wilson is said to hac formally 'presented a definite proposal for set lenient of wayc disputes vehieli would send bituminous miners back to work before the country was in the tlirc of a coal famine, but its nature was not disclosed. Jt was generally believed be suggested a wage increase of at'Ou: thirty one jcr cent. IJoth sides united in asking him to join the joint tubseale committees aS ter the miners bad definitely -rejected a twenty per cent wage advance? and the operators had finally refused to agree to a counter-proposal from th" workers for a forty per cent increase, a seven -hour day, and sx day week with half holiday on Saturdav. W hen the conference adjourned af ter a three-hour session, Thomas T. Brewster, chairman of the operators, declared that their offer had been withdrawn and that the slate was uow clean. SECRETARY TO MEET COMMITTEE TODAY. Secretary Wilson said that progress had been made and that he would meet the subcommittee again tomorrow af terno"on. Comparative data on increases in the cost of living and wage advance Co miners sinoe 1914, were submitted by Mr. Wilson, who declined to make pub lie Ii'n nvnnneil i,,n Tt we ..!.! 1... proposed an increase of approximately thirty-one per cent, the difference between be-tween t lie cost of living and vaijc in crease figures announced by tho so rotary at the opening of tike coul'cj Once last week. Au ultimatum served by the opera tors that their offer represented the maximum was reaffirmed tonight 1 Mr. Brewster, who declared it could not be increased unless ''the govern nient says wc should do il." When the conference failed to agree on either side's proposition tho opera tors suggested referring tlio dispute to arbitration, but the miners objected. The operators proposed a tribunal of nine members to be chosen iu one of three different ways: F.aeh side Co pick four members and the eight to select the umpire; each side to name four and tho president of tho United States the ninth, or each side to name ihree and the other three to be chosen by the president. LEWIS SUBMITS COL'NTER-FROPOSAL. The counter-proposition i'roni the nihiers. seuling dowu their earlier d3 wands, was submitted bv John L. Lewis, acting president ot tba United M-ine Workers after he had conferred with Secretary Wilson. Mr. Lewis ' stated that the new demand for a forty per cent wage advance for all sorlp of work represented the 'm;n RuS' between the waffo increases received re-ceived by the miners since 1014 and the jump taken by living costs. The mine workers also insisted that all local differences not 'covered by interstate in-terstate agreement li referred back to the districts in which they originated for settlement. The offer of the operators as finally rejected by the miners at today's session ses-sion was Mightly different from the terms submitted yesterday, Mr. Brewster Brew-ster said. The operators stood fast on the amount of wage increase, btu agreed to waive demands for other changes in the present eontract. The coal situation was discussed to day by Attorney General Valmer. Fnol Administrator Garfield and Dlrootor General Kinos of the ni ilroad a u minis t rat ion. Dr. Garfield said tho would meet Monday. It is understood that plans were agreeil upon if ueces sarv to bring the coffl strike to an end, i : ) (Continued on Pagv 10. Column ft.) SECRETARY AGAIN STEPS INTO BREACH (Continued From Page One.) i and that these plans would be laid bo- j fore the cabinet Tuesday. REFUSES TO DELEGATE POWER TO GOVERNORS. Dr. Garfield emphasized in a tele-gram tele-gram to Governor Harilinff of Iowa, refusing re-fusing to delegate the power of fixing eoal prices to state executives, that j the federal government intended to ro- ! tain control of the strike situation. In I official circles it was said that action by the state at this time would greatly embarrass the attempt to reach a settlement set-tlement here. Dr. Garfield's message was taion to mean that governors could not change the wage scale in an effort to get the miners back to work, as the fuel administrator refused to allow al-low increases in maximum eoal prices to meet increased cost of production. An embargo on export of anthracite coal, effective today, was announced tonight by the fuel administration. The order directed that "no anthracite coal produced in the United States shall be sold, shipped or distributed except to dealers or. consumers and for use and consumption within the United States, its insular possessions and t'annda.'' As any contract negotiated by the miners and operators must be approved by Dr. Garfield before going into effect, ef-fect, some of the operators contended today no further wage advance could be offered without direct authority from the fuel administration. |
