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Show COAL MINERS MAY STRIKE1 Refuse to Arbitrate Differences Dif-ferences - in Missouri and Iowa. DES MOINES, la., March 23. Refusal Re-fusal of the miners in Joint conference with the operators to arbitrate questions ques-tions affecting, the wage scale in the First and Fourth districts has threatened threat-ened a shut-down of every coal mine in the Thirteenth district, which includes in-cludes the entire State of Iowa and a portion of Missouri. The miners demand a day wage of $2.24 for unskilled labor in the district referred to arid the operators refused, because of conditions existing in those I districts, which render that character of labor much cheaper. No objection is made to the scale in other districts. Thirty thousand miners will be affected af-fected in case the representative miners refuse to arbitrate. V j |