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Show HARDING READY TO ACT IF COAL MEETING FAILS Cleveland Conference on Monday Holds Promise of Peace Result as Final Move by Independents PUBLIC OFFICIALS WITHHOLD ACTION . ' President Said to Have Dras- tic-PUn-ir. -Sight Should Operators Refuse Central Competitive Field Terms CH1CACJO. Aug. ( (Br A. P.) With a poaslbla peace In alght In tha coal atrlka, federal and atata officials today wars withholding action ealculatad to bring about a speedy resumption of .production, but contlnusd preparations for such a contingency ahould tha projected settlement plana fall. Tha meeting Monday In Cleveland, Ohio, of John U Iewla, president of tha United Mine Workers, and other union chiefs, with repreaentatlvee or coal operators In lha central competl. tlve field waa looked upon aa tha flnat Independent peace effort of tha warring fad lens. It waa believed generally that ahould tha Cleveland conference fall. President Harding would take some drastic action toward ending tha lie-up of mines. Disordert Absent In Indiana Field STAUNTON", Indians. Aug. I (By A. P.l Although there waa a noticeable feeling of resentment among residents of the coal mining district occupied by Indlena national guardsmen, Friday night passed quietly and no dlaordera had been reported to military headquarters head-quarters here up to early today. Troops, however, continued to maintain a heavy guard over Ih. twenty by forty mils martial law arena, aa tha situation situ-ation waa considered by officers te be decidedly tenae. All outposts hers were doubled last night as the result of the skirmish between be-tween snipers snd nstlonal guard amen early Friday morning. No one waa hurt In tha firing, which lasted mors than two hours, as far aa could be learned at military headquartere. In tha meantime, work of cleaning up tha mlnra In preparation for the actual digging of coal In tha shafts taken over by tha atata ars going forward. for-ward. Officiate aay they expect to have the mlnea In full operation by the flrat of the week. Aa none of the atrlklng mlt.era in thla dlatrlct have answered Governor McCray'a call for volunteers to man ths mines. It fa tit pected that Imported labor will vej used. Illinois Offer To Have Bearing CLEVELAND. O.. Aug. 6. Th Interstate In-terstate wage scale conference between bituminous coal operator's and representative repre-sentative of th United Mine Workers lof America to open her Monday will result either In th miner returning i to work at th old wag acal or a I prolonged continuation of th coal tatafcv mmm aiagr t ep.nl sua M ; cot.1 circles her today. I It waa predicted that th union's i fight against any wag reduction will ! he "to tbe finish" following the offer of the Iblncl operator ysterdav to pay th inn-era of that atata tne eld , cale, until March 11, 192S. x Cleveland opera tor a who are to at-:tend at-:tend Monday' a conference, volcej no 'eiTprle lit th Illinois offer, but defined de-fined to state whether It will have any Hifiuenc at the meeting. ; Coal Regulations jGo to Governors WASHINGTON. Aug. I. (By A. P.) Governors of the various states wer asked today by Kederal Fuel Dlstrlb-I Dlstrlb-I utor Spencer to concur In th step, l outlined by the federal government 'for the emergency distribution of coal. J Letters sent to tbe governors today J by Mr. Spencer carried In the central .committee's plans and the federal fuel ' distribution form "Number &0 to be used by state committees In applying for emergency coal, i "If you have not already In'ormed j .h secretary of commerce. Mr. Hooter, l of your Intention to comply with his I wishes In the matter of the distribution of fuel. I presume you will do so," Mr. ' Hpencer told the governors, "snd as th plan contemplate collaboration be-! be-! tween your state committee and my I organisation and In order that w may work most effectively, and that method ; shall be as much alike as poaalbl In all the states, I respectfully re- i quest your concurrence In the step: described." I Kortnif were enclosed by the fuel din- j trlbutor covering th arioua details of coal allocation and the federal plans a announced earlier In the week. Governors' committees wer requested request-ed by Mr. Spencer to apply for coal produced ln other state only tn rough lb federal fuel distributor at Washington Wash-ington and not to order any coal from federal fuel district committers nor proouc-er outsid of their own slat. "There is no anthracite coal available avail-able for attribution oy the federal fuel distributor." Mr. 8u-acer said. "Application for emergency caiJ to the federal fuel distributor choj.d be mad only for current us and uot for storage. m "Application for emergency coal should be mads only for the most essential es-sential purpose following .the priority i.:ontijiued net pa-e 3. i HARDINGREADY (Continued from psgn 1.) classes rstsbllshrd by ths Intertiuta commarca cumiiiifslnn. "Kmaraency coal auppllrd on Ihrsa apiillratmna mail to Ilia federal fuel dlatrlbutor wlJI bs placed f. o. b. rail, way cara at tha mlnea at tha fnlr prlca appioved for the producing tila trlct by Hecrelary Hoover. "It will be tha endeavor u tha federal fed-eral fuel distributor to place orders lor emergency coal In those districts from which the supply Is most avallabla lo tha jippllcajUB." Slight Increase in Coal Production WA8HINOTON. Aut. 5 Coal production pro-duction for the week will be about a 1 7. -004 tons greater than tha previous week and will total about ilM.tM tona. tha geological aurvey estimated today. Tha Increase waa due to Improved railroad condltlona In the non-union f.eld. the turvey aald.'rather then to reopening of mlnea The tots', weekly t input la still about 1.100,000 tona short a', levels learned by the non-uniou out- j put befon- the shopmen's strlka. There lies been practically ro In-crtase In-crtase In output In any of ths strongly strong-ly organlv.1 districts, the survey said, and tha Increase In shipments from I'ennaylvi'.nl i and from the Fairmont and Kenuwha districts of Was-. Virginia, Vir-ginia, ha i.ot been larre. Tha JUtpu- of nthr.clls coal will Ix barely 10.000 tons for tha current week, tha survey added. Tnklna an-trirarlte an-trirarlte and bituminous coal toaet.ier the output during th. rorreip ntlnv wek of li:i amounted to a total of i 070 000 tons, tha survey aald, whlls IP 120. tha total of inthrarlt and bltumlnoua for tha corr 'ponding week waa 11.283.00 tona The present r:ite of output, tha survey concluded, "Is therefore from i.OoO.OOV o I.OV0.009 tons below normal." Northwest Industrie Forced to Suspend ST. TAfU, Aug. . Oovernor J. A. O. Preus, In a telegram to Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerca today aerlared the coal situation In the .Mlhwwas '-desperate"- mnt tlMf .nanufiicturlng plants will be forced to cliee. 100 newspapers suspend p'lbllra-ttnn p'lbllra-ttnn and many men will ha throe n out or work unless relief is given at ones. Steel Compaies Lay Off Thousands VOINC8TOWN. O, Aug. I. Announcement An-nouncement of curtailing of operations opera-tions of three steel mills, throwing 2700 men out of work on account of coal shortage, was mada here today. All departments of the Carrel I, Pa., works of the Carnegie Steel company, com-pany, except one blast furnace, will susitend tonight for an Indefinite period. Twelve hundred men will be out of work. Tha Voungstown Sheet snd Tuba company will bank ona blast furnace, close Ha Meaaemer department, one blooming mill and two open hearth furnaces The Republic Iron and Steel company will close three open hearth open furnaces snd two bar mills. Kifteen hundred men will leave Jobs of the two eompanlas. Twelve blaat furnaces now have been put out of production by ths fuel crisis, leaving only fourteen operating out of tha forty-seven In this district. Ten open hearth furnaces of the Independent In-dependent milla here and the two He.eemer planta have been closed, cutting steel Ingot production materially. |
