Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-03 | Page 3 | Ohio Situation Reported without Substantial Change

OHIO SITUATION REPORTED WITHOUT SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 2. Reports from the big coal fields ir. .Ohio indicate that tho strike situation is unchanged. The only near break in the strike is reported from the Zanesville district, where operators and union miners, numbering num-bering about sixty, are said to have reached an agreement on a new wage scale. Whether the miners in this district dis-trict will return to work is 'doubtful. No statement was available from union leaders lead-ers here. The operators, however, through "W. D. McKinney, secretary of the southern Ohio coal exchange, let it be known that they are making no attempt to work their mines. "So far as I know," said Mr. McKinney, 'every miner in Ohio is out, and I do not believe a sufficient number could be mustered to have any appreciable appre-ciable effect on the situation." Because of the generous supply of natural nat-ural gas in central and southeastern Ohio, Mt Kinney said, domestic coal consumers of the state would suffer no hardship.