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Show SLIGHT HOPE OF PEACEFUL END For Strike in Herd Coal Regions; Mitchell Is Reticent. 6CRANTON. Pa.. May 4.-There seems but alight hope for a peaceful settlement of the controversy in the anthracite coal fields. A large number of the delegates to the United Mine-Workers' convention express the opinion that a strike is their only alternative. A decision is looked for today or tomorrow tomor-row at the latest. President Mitchell Is endeavoring to find a way of obviating extreme ex-treme measures, and although he Is reticent reti-cent concerning the report that the final decision may be by referendum vote, it is said the delegates are seriously considering con-sidering the method. In the letter of the scale committee submitting sub-mitting their report was the following significant sig-nificant paragraph: "If it is true and we believe It is tha4 the operators have made their final proposition, prop-osition, there is nothing left for us to do but to accept, for a period of three years, a renewal of the award of the anthracite coal strike commission or the conditional and restricted method of arbitration proposed pro-posed by the operators, or to strike until we secure better conditions than are now offered by our employers." The convention adjourned at 11:45 until this afternoon without any decisive action ac-tion having been taken. The entire morning morn-ing was devoted to hearing the opinions of various delegates on the operators' refusal re-fusal to grant any of the demands. Saturday The big $2.00 day on Davis Money-Back Shoes. |