Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-07-22 | Page 19 | President May Intervene in Coal Strike

PRESIDENT MA MAYI v I INTERVENE IN I I II I 1 COAL STRIKE I I Situation Grows vs Worse in Illinois Coal CoalFields CoalFields Fields w WASHINGTON Jul July 22 22 dent Wilson today was asked to In Intervene intervene In- In In the coal strike In Illi nois nol Dr Ir r P P. P C. C lion Honnold noM of or Chicago and anda a committee from the tho Illinois coal operators operators' association conferred atthe atthe at the tho White House Houa with Secretary Tumult after atter the president had considered the matter It Is understood the operators tors Bt- Bt loge that the sulk cof cot coal work Worle workers ers era In Illinois Is In violation of or the theaward theaward award of be the tho presidents president's ent's coal commission commission com com- mission and that tho president should enforce this Rwan award Members of or the committee included In in- In eluded I 1 K 1 C. C Searles H. H C. C Perry K FI FI V F I and II 11 C C. C.- Adams dam CHICAGO July Strikes 2 22 Strikes of day laborer in the Illinois coal coalfields coalfields fields with for or a n 2 a n day y increase today had closed more than thana a score of or mine sin the Important Franklin county count coal fields Reports Reports Reports Re Re- ports from rom the dl district around Belleville Belleville Belle Belle- ville sold said that approximately men were Idle President Frank Farrington of or the Illinois Miners' Miners union Mid eald he would try to pu persuade th the striking miners to return pending negotiations to re- re ope the w wage e hearings Ill III Jul July 22 Seven thousand ml coal crol miners In this district Joined the tho strikers toda today Not a J Jahan shaft ahan in the tho eleventh eleventh- IB Is working according to reports hero here