Show WHITE SAYS I IDE HE DE EXPECTS BIG STRIKE Negotiations With Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania Anthracite Coal Operators Off NEW YORK March 15 f I look for Cor a n general su suspension of oC work April I 1 All n. n negotiations with the anthracite coal coat operators operators oper- oper are aro off orr said John P. P White Whit president president dent of the United Mine Workers of or America at the adjournment of or the meeting today between elwen the miners and operators In which tho the miners declined the operators operator counter proposition Will there be a n strike Mr Ir White wa was asked I cant can't say Ja as to that h lit lid replied The miners officials will wm discuss that matter r this afternoon The meeting between the miners and operators wee wan brief Mr White read the miners miners' reply to the operators' operators rejection of or the miners miners' demands It was received rt without comment and the meeting Ad ad- None one of the operators was will will- willing fn ing to talk We Ve regret the position you ou huyo halo tl k taken n the miners miners' reply reads rends as we WI had hop hoped d. d that as the representatives of or ortho tho time anthracite coal operators you would consider the great change in conditions conditions existing now as compared with those o of 1002 1902 on which the coal strike committee gave Its awards and would therefore recognize recognize rec rec- the tho reasonableness IH of or tho the demands of oC the time anthracite mine workers and make such concessions as industrial rIal and market mar mal malt market ket t conditions and conditions l of living unquestionably now warrant |