Show illllltlSS TO COII BUM 11 ThTro ot Yet Settled In Illinois PIT 1 fly > c Chlc iro Sept 27Th < following ad Ircs was Issued today by 91P I fm > operators as the result ol a meeting f lie coal miners of northern Illinois Illi-nois the time ties arrived ishon the mIn mI-n IIr northern Illinois must decide Whether or nol their conduct In re gard 10 wilges thall btf governed by common sense i ana buslnnn condll 0 n1L = = = = An ius well understood at the time hy your repreBontntlv and probably by nil mine tile scale or wages nlnpl el find agreed UIoll last prlng Cor nurlhen Illinois vorts fixed III certain figures for tile exprens purpseof Inn bllng the mini Owners or northern Illinois Il-linois to ompole with central anti eastern Illlnol and Indiana nine find was based nllon the ages ihlcli were then In effect In those districts file oOllle or ages foimulated at the recent cent meeting at Hprlngflcld 14 I nol on 1lpnl with the basis of mining wages nqjeed to last spring icli if tile Present contract Ielwn Is mnM gets and millers or norlhlrn IIIlnol l were 10 be N Ipsd nut tile mine owners or this district could nol eompclc with tile mines of central find enn II IInol and ndlann Oil the ornlo o wages wa-ges proposed nt tin rrnijflelil metIng met-Ing and the conditions rll Inst xeir I when you did not work half time nonld be repeated The Price l demAnded by I I the Springfield meeting for mining In rnrtcrn t Illinois Is four to seen to percents per-cents per ton hlghir than too price Ahieh IVU being field III that lIolllet nl the time or our IImenl IIn1 Upon i which our oplllomnt u 8 bind 1h 11ce now demanded In she Sprlnktlcll district It I only 3 to G cents u1stivi ° Lim 1l1ee hlth wus bejngpalu 1 < 1 nt that lime The price flow elOand1 for Pllno Is I not 10 exceed r elnlS hhor The districts referred tn eat pdue enough coal to suply the entIreatrada nol enjuOd tor I northern Illinois or Nihich we can hope 10 01 nod I yore y-ore our must direct and cl Jbcct ci > m jtetltInj The vottges demanded Inn e In-n IIllinois I bv the it prlnnel meeting are art advance of II I cents per i Ion oer the mares agre1 10 list spring and embodied In our contracts with ou The Injustice find the inconsistency of the proposal Springfield goals are po gross lint they Imp prompted us to write this letter to S 011 that thi actual facts might be clearly roiifriit tn your knonledfr e and understand hv y on Tho Ptrike or suspension Is I n longer n national one and It tile 11nri 1 III this district Is I prolonged It 1 voIll be thom tho-m oll of driving bnslnxi OTln from 11114 10 other fields and lenvln f Un 011 In 0 load ror wore condItIon Ihn III prlolln ycnr Stimel hy A L Sueet chairman C T Dent secretary |