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Show P PEOPLE WAITING FDR OFPICIIVJ I. . ( V Miners and Operators Lin-ger Lin-ger at Atlantic City After Breaking Off Negotiations Negotia-tions t on - Wage Scale COAL COMMISSION ? EXPECTED TO ACT n : t ' I Definite Mots Is Neces-. sary to Keep Fuel Supply 1 in Production After Sept 10, When Contract Ends ATLANTIC C1TT. 'K. J. Aug. tt. Miner.' union, official and anthracite an-thracite coal operator, who y eater-day eater-day broke off wag negotiation for their Industry, war atlll In tha city today awaiting whatever communication communi-cation might eoma to them from Jh United Btataa coal eommlaatoa or other agency of th federal government. gov-ernment. - , On September It the present contract con-tract fixing tha wagea and eondl-tlona eondl-tlona of employment for all ' the unionised mine worker la th anthracite an-thracite region expire.. Repeated attempta to get an agreement aa to to term of a contract to continue th employment relation after that date have failed even with th com-miaaion'a com-miaaion'a Intervention. '. f ' ' Mr..' Lt1 ly Iterated today thaa aaaertlon that th union would "administer "ad-minister to tha anthracite operator th trouncing of their careers." The operator had nothing to add to their declaration "'hat repeated offer, of-fer, on their part to aubmtl every point In dlsput to arbitration had been truHleee. What' government agenda President Coolldga held tn mind none of them pretended to know ar urmlse.' Aa th. matter stand a. operator' and miners' union official have come to .complete disagreement on two demand which mine workers' work-ers' spokesmen have preeented. One of thes ts far anion recognition nd the 'collection of nnlon dues by the check off." " Th second Is for an Increase of pay of II per day for all the men-amployed In mine workings by tha day. and for a 1 per cent I acres, m the piece rates per ton for mining roaL Nlae other demanda f the nnlon have never been formally eonaldarsd in Joint aesslen. . -t It wa ooneeded today that, fading fad-ing entrance of some new factor, governmental or otherwise, the mine would he tied up September 1. COMMISSION FRAMES REPORT TO COOLIDOe. ' '- WASHINGTON. Aug. 11. Member Mem-ber of th federal coal commission were en gated today In framing a report to President Coolldg fixing th responsibility forth break between be-tween tt arithraclte operator and miner and outlining what atepa they believed the government ahould taks In vBt of th prospective trtk on Sent em her 1. Chairman Hammond of th commission com-mission announced thl would be the next tep by th company after he. with .Commlealoner Net, bed conference last evening with President Presi-dent Coolldgs. He did not Indicate definitely how long the drafting of the report would require, but there appeared a pneelbillty today that It would bs In the hands of th president presi-dent befor night. A tatmnt a to responsibility for the rupture ln negotlatlona yea terday In Atlantic City. It la generally gener-ally conceded, will not produce a ton of coal, and thu the greatest Interest I attached ts what atepa the new admlnlatratloo proposes t take ehould the mines and operator opera-tor continue In their failure to reach a common ground. Two atatementa only hava com from th Whit House which ere regarded aa throwing light on th plan in the mind of Mr. Cool Idas. The flrat of these, made eeveral day ago ald that a plan had been prepared which would rellev the situation through th ue. of substitutes sub-stitutes for anthracite. The second, authorised last evening after th president had talked to Mr. Hammond Ham-mond twice within three houre. waa that tha public should rest assured that there would b plenty of fuel. . At on run In the hurried oon-omiia oon-omiia here vesterday. following , the breakdown of the negotlatlona In Atlsntlc City, ther appeared an Indication that President Cocdldg might decide to summon th operator opera-tor and miner representative to Washington for a meeting with him. Later, however. It waa Indicated that the president had no Juch plan In mind and those who Fnow the new president best aay that he haa na desire to be plard in th roi of arbiter, feeling that task should (Continued on page S) r COAL' PEOPLE (Continued from Patre 1.) alon b undertalcen, aa It haa, by the coal commlaeion. Suggestions that tha government s-ln utllla th Injunction, aa It did Irt th railroad ink of last year, alao have alao found want favor among thoa close to the president. H te understood to b opposed generally to the na of Injunction In-junction In labor disturbances, and It la te be noted that both Attorney General Daugherty and Assistant Attorney Seymour are absent from Washington and that no department of rustic officiate hav been turn atoned ta th Whit House to discuss dis-cuss th coal situation. - i. |