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Show PEORIA DISTRICT MINERS REFUSE TO ACCEPT SITUA TION PEORIA, III., Dec. lb Miners of Peoria subdistrb-t No. 1' repudiated the Indianapolis Indian-apolis agreement for set Ling tho nationwide nation-wide strike nf miners at a meed 1 rur tn-j tn-j night, according to a it:it'-nio;,t m;i'U by M. 10. Shorwoorl, mon:!i.-r of rh.-- Tidnois state doard of Coiled Miru- Workers of A mo r ica. Fight taouea-nd men are affected. af-fected. SPRTXGFTFFD, II!., Deo. 11. Thre will be a general resumption t.f jnining in Illinois tomorrow, but at a f.-w ininfE-s-ome difflculfy Is expected. Frank Far-rington. Far-rington. president of the Iilinois niiu. rs, said tonight 1m expected practically all' the njen would reuort for work in the niorn-intr niorn-intr and indicated that the state organization organiza-tion will take steps to' bring any recalcitrant recalci-trant locals into line. President Farriugujn made lhe following stat'Mnent regarding the meeting at Indianapolis: In-dianapolis: "Officers of the Illinois mlr worker'? made the best fight they, could at the Indianapolis convention. The odds were against us and we lot. The best we could get out of the conference was an agreement of t lie conferees thn t the international in-ternational convention 'no reconvened as soon as tho men returned to work. '"We had to make a hard fight and compromised our position to got tiie conferees con-ferees to even agree to reconvene the j convention after the men had returned to the mines. All of tho conferees, in- , eluding the international officers, were' vigorously onposed to reconvening tho convention con-vention fn accordance with the Instruc-tions Instruc-tions of the Cleveland gathering. "We hope that Die Illinois men will re- 1 turn to work. To allow tlum to remain re-main id- with the mines of other states in operation would simply moan tho crucifixion cruci-fixion of the Illinois miners." Farrine"tnn had received a number of telegrams tonight indicating that some of the miners may refuse to return. A local at Valierc, Frank Mn county, telegraphed Furrington that it "will- not accept the terms and we have no confidence in the : proposal of the government." The dissatisfied miners declared tho -14 per cent wage increase was rejected by : tiie miners at Wash ig ton. Other locals at Johnson City, CoujtorvJlle and Cedar Point notified the state president they would not accept tho Indianapolis agreement. |