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Show DRASTIC ACTION. It has become apparent that a majority ma-jority of the union miners have no intention in-tention of returuing t work unless their demands are granted. It is also apparent that unless more fuel is available avail-able prSetieally all of the industries of the country -will be closed down, millions mil-lions of men and women will be thrown out of work and countless thousands will be compelled to undergo great privations pri-vations during the winter. In the larger larg-er eit;cs it is possible that many people peo-ple will freeze or starve to death. This is not a pleasant prospect for loyal American citizens and they ar" now asking themselves how the existing sifr uatton can be remedied. Administration Administra-tion officials have declared that the mines will be operated and notice has been served upon the operators and diggers that they must not interfere with production. The government is to be commended for its decision to provide fuel, but unless the miners can be induced to return to work it will be difficult to produce anything Jike the amount of coal needed. ( The chief hope of the government officials of-ficials lies in the fact that it is known that thousands of American miners did not favor the strike and art willing to resume production if assrrej of military mil-itary protection. So it has been decided de-cided to send enough soldiers into the mining camps to insure the safety of the men who stand by their country in the crisis. If there are not enough patriotic union miners to fiii the existing ex-isting vacancies there will be a call for volunteers to take jobs that will pay them well. In such case it is more than probable that the strikers who remain idle in this time of stress wili be unable to secure employment in the future. Already the coal mines of Oklahoma have been thrown open to non-union labor and the governors rf nine states have been summoned by Gardner of Missouri to meet in St. Louis today to discuss the situation arising from the strike. We have no means of knowing what action the executives ex-ecutives will take, but it is reasonable reason-able to expect that they will go t0 the limit of t;heir authority in order lo provide fuel for the industries and the people. The strike has leen going on for several sev-eral weeks and many big plants have been forced to-suspend operations. In the course of a few days it will be necessary nec-essary to decrease train service throughout the L'nited States, which will still further disarrange the business busi-ness of the country and put thousands of railroad men in the ranks of the idle. And this is but the beginning unless un-less there is an immediate increase in the production of coal. The situation here in Utah is better than in any of the other states. The strike order was rescinded in this commonwealth before it beenrre operativo and there has been no interruption in the mining of coal. There are some idle men in the camps, however, and if they rlo not intend in-tend to produce they should not be allowed al-lowed to consume. Every pound of coal that can be mined in this state is sorely needed and miners who remain re-main idle now should be forever barred from employment in I'tnh. The country coun-try is facing a dire calamity and soft words are worre than useless. Let ' 'tv patriotic. American citizen hnek up the government, in its efforts to provide fuel and prevent suffering and death. It, should be remeinberd that tho coal mine operators offered to submit the wage dispute to arbitration nt tho outset and agreed to stand by whatever what-ever award was made by the arbitrators. arbitra-tors. Tie miners, however, would not agree, to arbitration unless (hey were given assurances that their demands would bo met, which would not be r bitrstion in any sense of the word. What they did was to issue nn ultimatum ultima-tum and follow it up by going on strike. Mad they ngneed to arbitrate, their differences with r employers employ-ers and remained at work thgif wages would have been increased without doubt and the award made ret roaetive. fly their obduracy t,ny have sacrificed several weeks' wage, ,id alienated Ihc sympathy of the public. It. is Impos sible to ignore these fgg(g, |