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Show Ms Lewis Co mieeDs Meet f -- Policy Talks Postponed; Miners Set to Quit Pits ...... . , NEW YORK. Nov. 80 new soft coal walkout ap peared certain at midnight Wednesday. John L. Lewis poet-' poned again Wednesday a meeting of his United Mine Workers' policy committee until 10 a.m. Thursday. . " Lewis gave no word publicly about whether or not ha will ' permit a strike.- In Pittsburgh, however, Dennis Rarahall. U M W dtitrlct flva np-reaentative, np-reaentative, said "calls racaivad at my offica from local leaden today ahow definitely th. men are planning plan-ning to quit tonight" A three-week truce ia scheduled to expire at midnight. The unlon'a 200-man policy committee has bea marking time bare atnea Monday, Mon-day, ready to act If Lewta gave, the aignal either to extend th. admlatice or to allow the mlnera again to lay down their tools in their contract dlapute with the pit owners. Lewis met with his district president pres-ident Wednesday morning and then allowed a spokesman to aay that the full-dress policy meeting scheduled for 4 p.m. (X g T) would again be postponed. - i Pat Off Twtee . The meeting was put off Monday and Tuesday while Lewis remained In Washington. , All that reporters oould do was to speculate that the mines would be abut down Thursday, since the PITTSBURGH, Nov. St Ut " A United MUM werkere' district dis-trict official said miners M the Pittsburgh district will . walk out st saldBjgtit Wedneo-i Wedneo-i night, st . the expire tloa e( a three week strike trace. committee authorised by the union constitution to set on such major tsaues would be unable to move before the deadline. .-Whether .-Whether tew Is haa sent out word by his own methods through district presidents oould only be guessed .about. There always waa a possibility of some behind-th eocene move which might lead to a settlement. New talks Schedaled " But new hard coal wage talks were scheduled la the meantime. Ralph C Taggart chairman of the anthracite operators wsge sgreement committee, announced that he sad Lewie have agreed to reconvene the talks, hers -Dec S. They last met In Philadelphia on July T. In the soft coal dispute, the tOO-man tOO-man U M W policy committee was scheduled to meet here at 4 p.m. (S S T) Wednesday. Lewis, whose moves ia the last few days have been shrouded In secrecy, wss in New Tork for the eleventh-hour session. Mine owners were reported standing solidly against any contract con-tract concessions, and there waa Sea Page t, Co rams 1 Coal Strike Looms Tonight As Lewis Cancels Parley tea Usee! tree Pag Oa SO Indication of government lnter-YanfvsA. lnter-YanfvsA. Reports from Key West, whore President Truman Is vacationing, aaM presidential adviser appar-' appar-' ontly were dinging to the hope of an 11th hour resumption of negotiations nego-tiations between Lewis and the operator which would permit extension ex-tension of their three-week truce, expiring at midnight , Postponed Senses Twice The policy committee had been directed by Lewis to meet here Monday, but at the last minute the session was postponed until Tuesday, and then again until Wednesday. Lewis waa buay elsewhere. else-where. Lewis abandoned hi old-tim policy of "no contract no work" when the miner' agreement with the opera tore expired last June 30. A short work week and a 02-day 02-day atrUt were Interrupted on Nov. by Lewis' order .to go back negotiator for "big steel" mining operations. The steel company vigorously denied that Moses had met with Lewi. The UMW chief remained In Washington Monday and Tuesday while his policy committee assembled assem-bled her and waited for hia Instruction In-struction on the possible extension exten-sion f the present tye-wek true or for' resumption of the strike of St least the U0.0O0 miners east of the Mississippi river. Should a walkout occur again, most union officers believe It would include all of the mine worker across the nation the anthracite diggers in eastern Pennsylvania and the soft coal miner west of Mississippi aa well aa the bituminous coal miners who were idle east of the Mississippi for the S3 days up to Nov. 9. to work. The true order waa Issued af tar a meeting of th policy committee In Chicago Nov. 9. Th United Mine Workers' chief sent word Monday and again Tuesday Tues-day that he would prefer to have hia follower mark time while he 1 ' 111 tried to forge s new contract ut of th very cool negotiation which hare occupied the soft coal operators oper-ators and unlca official for months. Lewia offered no explanation for poet poring the meetings. But he ' apparently decided Tuesday that another 24-hour postponement was Justified, as direct talka with major eoeJ operator wars reported fat th making. . Important Coafenaje - Lewis was reported td have held ail important conference with Harry M. Moses, president of th H. C. Prick Coke Co., - principal |