Show COAL STRIKE 15 BOUND TO COME Only Hope Hop of Preventing General of Industry Is Government Intervention Intervention Intervention I tion Is Opinion Offered I IBy By FRED G. G JOHNSTON United Press Staff Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS Ind md Feb 15 Gov Gov Government intervention is if virtually the only hope of averting a national coal I strike April 1 I a high officer In the I United Mine Workers declared today It was said many mine operators de desire desire de- de sire a strike in order to unload surplus surplus surplus sur sur- I plus stocks of coal at high prices and will stand pat on their determination to refuse interstate wage negotiations I with union representatives Union leaders feel teel they have gone the tho limit in concessions by recommending recommending recommending mending to the miners' miners convention that the present wage scale be maintained main main- tamed in the face of hundreds of resolutions resolutions res res- from local unions demanding a better schedule With this situation existing officers of the United Mine Workers will appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal once again agal to the operators to open negotiations Failing in this there Is nothing left except to stand standby standby standby by their guns for expiration of the present agreement at midnight March 31 Without an agreement nt the the- themen men will quit work the officer said aid If the government acts in ih the Joe matter mat mat- ter- ter terr-it terr it waS waa said iha It steps t ver very verj- likely will be against the operators operators' on on the ground that they violated provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions of the contract falling ailing for a wage conference prior to March 31 Situation Is Yet Unchanged I BOSTON Feb 15 The The situation in I New England cotton textile centers I where strikes are in progress against wage wago reductions coupled In New i Hampshire and Rhode Island with restoration restoration restoration res res- res- res of the hour four week was unchanged today Pickets patrolled patrolled pat pat- patI I rolled their beats in some places in in ma a snowstorm but in most cities the mills I were closed and picket lines were withdraw with with- draw dra drawn wn n Governor San Souci was back in I Providence after atter a tour of the Pawtucket Pawtucket Pawtucket Paw- Paw Valley district in Rhode Island w where here he said he hp found round conditions satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory sat sat- but troops were still held ready for service Third Case Disposed Of TOPEKA Kan Feb 15 The The third of the cases case against Alexander Howat deposed leader of Kansas mine district NO o. o 14 has been disposed of by the Kansas supreme court it was an announced announced an- an flounced today The court granted a n writ of error issued the citations In Inthe inthe I the case and fixed the appeal bond at This case is the only one of three directly against Howat The third case against Howat which was appealed was based on the violation of an Injunction order forbidding Howat to call a a. strike in the Patten Fatten mines The order was vl violated it Is alleged |