Show South oth Coal Owners Bolt ot Lewis eLewis Parley I V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Feb 15 UP UP j The Southern Coal Producers Producers' Wednesday walked out of a bargaining conference with Joan Jonn L L. Lewis and northern western and captive mine operators Joseph E E. Moody president of the group told reporters there were some misunderstandings' misunderstandings about southern producers' producers obligation oblige obliga tion under tinder the injunction The federal court last Saturday directed Lewis and the soft coal operators to resume bargaining Counsel for the southern oper tors and the United Mine line Workers went directly to federal court to ask for an nn interpretation of the injunction Wanted Separate TaU Talks Moody emphasized that when ho ha replied to Lewis' Lewis invitation to meet here Wednesday he stipulated that the southerners wanted to confer with him on wage hour i I matters separately from the northern northern northern north north- ern western and steel company operators But when Wednesdays Wednesday's meeting meeting- started all major operators were represented The Thc southerners left the meeting moments after the afternoon session session ses ses- sion opened Other commercial operators and P spokesmen for the steel industry's 1 captive mines said they do not care whether the conferences are joint I or separate Wednesdays Wednesday's bargaining session had opened in the midst of an in increasingly increasingly m- m serious coal crisis International H Harvester a r v e cst s t e r Co warned its Us in seven se states that widespread layoffs laY lav- offs oUs could be expected at any anytime anytime anytime time because of low fuel supplies s. s On another front the railway mediation board reported that it failed to settle a contract dispute between the major railroads and conductors and trainmen To Set Strike Date The two brotherhoods said they would announce a strike date Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- Fri Fri- day but the national railway labor act probably will delay a walkout for several months while a presidential presidential emergency finding fact-finding board studies the problem The soft coal operators met with U M W V officials Wednesday and Federal Mediation Director Cyrus CyrusS S S. Ching said he probably would sit in on the sessions He said David L L. Cole chairman of President President dent Truman's finding fact boa board boal l also would listen to the wage talks About U i M t W V members were out of the pits despite a federal federal federal fed fed- I eral injunction barring their strike to back-to- Mine spokesmen said any work movement would hinge on the outcome of the coal talks m Washington Gov GOY John Battle of Virginia meanwhile contemplated seizing the thc idle mines in m his state and Gov Goy Thomas E E. Dewey of New York signed an emergency bill biJl empowering empowering empowering ering him to ration coal and limit its uses for tor 90 O days More than industrial and railroad workers were idled by the coal shortage and railroad passenger passenger pas pas- I train tram operations have be been n slashed 25 to 50 Philip Murray C CIO I 0 president threw the support of his powerful organization behind the striking ing- ing See Page Pago 4 Column 2 Lewis Owners Resume Talks As Industrial Layoffs Mount Continued from Crom Page Tape One coal miners as other labor organizations organizations organizations lined up in back of the theU theU theU U M MV W V in its fight against a Taft Taft- Hartley injunction Meanwhile the C CIO I 0 United Auto Workers Workers' strike against the Chrysler Corp remained stat static c. c Daily contract talks continued al although although al- al though there was v no indication that they were any nearer agree asre 1 ment than when the workers work worl- I ers walked out Settlement has I I been stymied by a pension issue At Atlantic City representatives of the A F L American Flint Glass workers 1 contract talks with the National Association of lIf Pressed and ind Blown Glassware Manufacturers in an attempt to write n a new wage pact for At Mishawaka Ind lad the 1200 United Rubber Workers were ordered ordered ordered or or- dered back to their jobs at the thc U. U S S. S Rubber plant by the union s executive board They walked out outa a week ago to protest the dismissal dismissal s- s sal of a male worker and his re replacement replacement re- re placement with a woman |