Show BIG GOAL COAL STRIKE IS ISNOW NOW NO ON More Than Tha 75 Br British r jr Coal Coal Miners Have I WalKed Ou Out GOVERNMENT TRYING T TO SQL SOLVE VE PROBLEM Each h Side Now Blaming t 1 Other r for for Failure lre of r 1 Negotiations LONDON LONDON Feb Yeb 29 Upwards Upwards of I three qU quarters of ot a a. million coal miners had bad laid down o their t tools tool and nd gone on by 2 o o'clock this afternoon when tho day shift in the mines end ended The Tho army anny of striking ng colliers rs swelled hourly hoar hour ly 1 i throughout the morning when it be c cano came Irio known that no s settlement t hadJ had J been en reached reache The d legates delegates O of the minors were wore approached ap preached early this morning mo g by Sir George with some soine of ot 1 lila his a colleagues col 11 leagues agues ot of the thc oard of tr trade and s sev v v. eril labor members of the thern house of ol commons ons with a view of ot finding some someway W way y out of the he crisis At t the the- e. e same samei time thilo i the coal coB owners gathered at the foreign the they kon conferred d and several mem members hers bers s' s sot of ot the cabinet t. t E Each ch cb side now noi nom is the other gr the failure of the tho ne negotiations The miners say tiny the c coal al' al owners did no not show hiow a conciliatory attitude while the owners 4 insist that the miners wore wore were determined ned to strike no m matter U i wh what t terms terms' S' S w wore rc offered red It is und understood stood the g has luis drafted a a. a minimum mini mini- mum ij w with th safeguards G ar for he e n u nd dj tto rush ush it arl J. J t. t J iu g oas o M oj Me Ms ti gS' gS ifs se Meetings t e i wore were held Jd b by the Coal Miners Miners' Mitt Min er ers ers' federation and tho Coal Owners Owners' rs' rs a association o hut but apparent apparent- only re resulted te re- suited in a reiteration of the refusal of the hn participants t to moe move from front their pO positions Jhons us Further er meetings were announced but little is expected pec cd to result from frow them and as a consequence the cabinet cab cal inet completed arrangements to hurry lc legislation at on which may prove pro necessary to jo compel tho the re resumption of work nork Meetings of railroad employees adopted adopt d resolutions pledging ns themselves to abstain from handling troop trains and coal loal mined by It is said today with some authority that there i is a pr prospect of a 3 brea break in the deadlock between the coal owners own ers ere and Ind the miners Premier Asquith has bas submitted a 11 new proposal to tho the miners who it is asserted have havo now no signified their theil willingness to ne negotiate on lID the thc question of safe safeguards which the owners demand as a a. corollary to the establishment of a minimum wa wage e. e Mr r. r Asquith is said to have havo given an assurance to the thc minors minors' dele delegates ates that means meaDS would bo be found to compel tho the minority of tho the coal owners to fall into Jin line with ith the majority rity on the question ques ques- tion timi of the concession of a a. minimum wa wage e. e |