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Show DISCUSSIONS RESUMED IN COALJTRIKE BULLETIN': NEW YORK, May 10 (U.R) Negotiators seeking aii agreement in the soft coal deadlock, recessed at 5:30 p. m., E. D. T., tonight for two hours. Indicating that the situation was unchanged, they declined further comment. NEW YORK, May KMlTr) Contract negotiators for the soft coal industry resumed discussions today under pressure pres-sure of President Roosevelt to draft a formula by night under which the nation's bituminous bitu-minous mines may reopen. The negotiators had returned from Washington where President Roosevelt urged them, as American Ameri-can citizens, to get soft coal production pro-duction started this week, returning return-ing nearly half a million men to work. W. L. Robison of Cleveland, chairman of the joint wage - hour conference which has been in session ses-sion here since March 4, snapped "now let's get to work," as he entered en-tered the conference room. Dr. John R. Steelman, head of the U. S. conciliation service, resumed re-sumed charge of the negotiations which were interrupted when the conferees went to Washington. James F. Dewey, a conciliator on Steelman's staff, also participated in the conference. Spokesman for neither side would give any indication as to whether there was any possibility they would be able to meet the president's request. The negotiators have been deadlocked dead-locked since March 15 on the issue of granting the union a union shop or its equivalent. Mining stopped in the great Appalachian area April 1. |
