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Show f PARLEYS TO ill BE RESUMED I IN NEW YORK ills; .. 1 Frances Perkins Sits m fct In On Conference Uvi : In Washington t-or; Bulletin: 'crc.:. WASHINGTON, May 9 (U.R) '5 a; President Jioosevelt today :e fs asked Appalachian bituminous of U .producers and the United Mine mt Workers unions to submit to 1 (v. him by tomorrow night a plan I m- fr resuming coal production m-t'- immediately. jV. Mr. Koosevelt said at a late press conf erence that he had bv insisted that coal production il-- resumed tn's week. r, e where they talked for nearly 30 II minutes more after the conference ' with Mr. Roosevelt. 1 With 450,000 miners idle, Mr. Roosevelt was believed to . have told both groups that their dispute dis-pute was impairing business recovery, re-covery, and threatening a complete com-plete shutdown of industries and vital transportation services which depend on soft coal. C. By WILLIAM 11. LAWKEXCE : ' United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 9 United Mine Workers officials - (U.R) Soft coal operators and at a 75-niinute conference l with President Roosevelt today, to-day, agreed to resume nego-lions nego-lions in New York tomorrow V in an effort to settle the tie- K It up of bituminous mines. UMW President John L. Lewis and Charles P. O'Neill, spokesman j for the operators, announced joint-ly joint-ly that any statement concerning the conference with Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt would have to come from the II White House. p W. L. Robison, Cleveland, chair-'' chair-'' man of the joint conference, then announced the joint negotiations would resume tomorrow- in th Biltmore hotel in New York. A participants declined any further comment, but it was understood Mr. Roosevelt had made an urgent urg-ent plea that they settle their dispute, dis-pute, which has caused idleness of 450,000 miners and an alarming coal shortage. Perkins Attends Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins attended the White House conference, but did not leave with the others. She was closeted in a secretary's office with James F. Dewey, a federal conciliator who has been in close touch with the long and inconclusive negotiations in New York. The coal operators and union officials retired into an ante-room |