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Show 1 ; ; ,"'.."' . ..... w - , fc i-..-. w i v L , f" ' ' ' ' : -r y c - ' ' ' ' -T " 4 - - - a-) -a , L ki 4 , ''I' r;" r ; " ' " ' r j 1 , ( , r j . x - V a.-j.aaw.., k , ' ; "I s V 7r'" " ' ' i"' " C " " ' o : ' 1 x -" -" ' ' : ' - ' -' ' ' -; ' v '---' .. 1 ii-: r . CHICAGO, March SiThe -Tribune's "Wuhlngton cormpon-Jent J) . , ' say:. - . ( .,: . - .." . , . , , ' m - ' . . 'It Is ft terlous thlnj.to ay, and yet I believe I am' Just! ".ed in (i ; - eayinr It. that If the itrllie of the bituminous and anthracite mlne-s Is (-' permitted to continue to the point where the plled-up stocks of both ( " kinda of coal are pracUcally exhaugted, so as to produce a paraly:' ' . of industrial operations, the Oovernment of the United States either i .(j) througrh the President or through Congress, or both, will Uke act' la it" . the in torcet of the people. Constitution or no Constitution. ' ; ' -9.-" "That-is the feeling here among men who ordinarily ere cor.erva- '( tlv-. They do' net believe that either. Congress, or the President has 0 , the right to dictate the terms on which men. shall operate their mines () - "vr on which men shall,wcrk in the mines. (.) t ,v-. "They -do believe, however, and the opinion ' was ' gnerallv - ex- () i pressed .yesterday by Reoubllcansand Democrats and by high officials almoet-within the wa.ls of the White House Itself, that If any such G ; crisis arises the United. States Government will take posscKslon of th- () . mines, operate them for, the benefit 0f the people, and turn over the ( ; money to tts proper owners, leaving the operators and. rrJners to arree among themselves if they can. . . - , X a ) a s a m a toola and. would not return until the ecalj had been signed by the operators and they had been notified by the district dis-trict ofilclals. . . To Prevent Violence. ' . ; t -'r- . ', Members of the board said that every step possible would be taken to ' prevent . violence, and a formal decla- ' ration to the miners forbidding rioting or destruction of propertjr and urging , them to properly conduct themselves would be issued. . . ; INDIANAPOUS, Ind., ' March ft j ! The national ' executive board of the United Mine-Workers of -America held a session today to take up in detail the management - of the strike which will be Inaugurated in the anthracite and bituminous- coal-mining districts -of the country at the close of work today. ' Me numbering 609,500 wHl leave the-mines the-mines this evening, not to return until their employers, have signed. , . iv, v.. Eight-Hour Aim.1 versa iy.. In the central competitive district, composed of Illinois, Indiana. Ohio and western Pennsylvania, Monday will be the: eighth anniversary of ,thi eight-: hour-day concession,-and will be ob- j Served, as-usual, as 'a holiday. ; It was ar.tlclpated . by members of the net v al executive h -rd today that th r v uld b f I in all .prob-ar .prob-ar ' ' fom ' - 'tors of . . even- ' .. . . .. . , : "' ' ? ' ' j',T!cr e ;..e 'bo .r 'v. t irtnl Executive Execu-tive e. ..n 6t t.i i ..al 1 J-juar-- trs r t:.e u..:n, ir.t ers sa.j for-msl for-msl strik order wov.ld not b laaued; but at the close, of work, today the s r"nj""' lJ',T'tv r with tgr |