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Show 'Beginning of the End PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S action In demanding de-manding the resumption of coal mining by tha end of the week is a forthright gesture that should win the plaudits of tha nation generally. Major soft coal producing areas in the country have been at a standstill for seven weeks while operators and miners have bickered over contract con-tract negotiations which have been in continual deadlock since they began. Utah's own coal mines have been closed as a result of miners leaving their Jobs in sympathy with miners in the Appalachian region. ' The deadlock haa produced nothing but a shortage of coal in the more populous areas of 1 the nation and that prompted the president to ' take summsry action in ordering miners and 1 operators to find a method by Wednesday night ' for resuming coal mining by the end of the ' week. While Mr. Roosevelt declined to reply ' directly to questions as to what he would do 1 In the event the negotiators failed to heed his ' warning, he firmly announced he would brook ' rio failure. There are more than 450,000 miners -affected ty the strike which stretches the length and breadth of the land. In Utah the miners bore j no grievance with operators, but were forced to relinquish their Jobs by the continued dead- , ' lock of eastern negotiations. To get these men back into gainful employment and to start coal 1 moving to industrial and manufacturing centers ( is a heartening thing to contemplate as an after-' after-' math of the president's action. The president's sudden decision in connection connec-tion with breaking the coal tie-up harks back to the time of President Graver Cleveland, who provided the nation with railroad transporta-' transporta-' tion through sending troops into the picture to ' man the trains when deadlocked negotiations kept a rail strike in progress. |