Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-05-01 | Page 16 | No Settlement in Sight after Month's Strike

10 SETTLEMENT fill SIGHT AFTER I ! MOUTH'S STRIKE I . - .Miner Settle Down to En-I En-I durance Struggle With ' Z Operators; No Change in Number Reported Idle - Unionists claim r ''" PEAK NOT REACHED - beginning of. Second Month Provide Program Calling for Renewed Activities of Organizer in Nonunion Fields Z INDIANAPOLIS, May 1 (By A. P.) . -Th aocond month of tha natlon-"irlde natlon-"irlde auapanalon of work In lh coal Unduelry began today with offlclala at ' -4eadquartere et tha linked Mlna ; "Workara daclarin that o aattlament raa tn alht. x j No Chang was mad In union atlmat that at laaat (10.000 workars aad Jolnad In tha auapanalon, Inctud-I Inctud-I t" Tt.OOO nonunion miner In tha bi i Jumlnoua flalda. Pak atranlh. official aald. had not ft baan attalnad, and tha union pro-Jna pro-Jna callad for furthar affort to 'aa tha nonunion flalda, particularly , jThoa of eantral lnnaylvanla. , Bxoapt for tha drlv of union or-anlaara or-anlaara Into Pannaylvanla and Waal , n-a-lnla, th first month of tha aui-5analon aui-5analon waa mark ad by aitram quiet, j ) an workars of completely orsanlaed field aeemlnf to rrard their Idleness Idle-ness as a vacation, Tha drlv on the fannaylvanla nonunion fields waa Vlirwed by anion official as Impor- tant In that they regarded th output of theee dlatrlct aa a vital factor In determining th outcome of the sua penalon In the central competitive field, employing mora than one-third of all union miners. Aa far ss the central competitive field, 'which operatee weatern Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and also the outlying soft coal fields, was concerned, th suspension apparently appar-ently had settled down to an endur-anc endur-anc struggle, with officials hers profession pro-fession ronfldenc thst th operators would finally js forced Into a wag conforenr Whll th snthraclts operators had negotiations for a settlement under wsy. their conference with the union leaders over a nsw wage seal waa at a standstill, but officials here expected expect-ed an earlier settlement In thess districts dis-tricts than In th bituminous fields scattered throughout the country.