Show STRIKERS VOTE von T TO TARE All SAFETY MEN fROM Drastic Dra Means Decided Upon by English Coal Miners to End Battle MINES IVIA MAY Y FLOOD Governments Government's ts t's Efforts to Settle Long Standing Trouble Meet Failure By CLIFFORD L. L DAY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON LO Oct 7 Great 7 Great Britain's Brit Brit- ain's ains embattled d coal miners today prepared to employ the most formidable for for- weapon weapon they could use In their battle with th the owners of the coal mines The National al Delegate Conference of Miners voted to withdraw all all' safety men from Crom the them m mines ines Throughout the coal strike about miners have been working as usual They are the safety men who look after the pumps the ventilating machinery care for Cor the pit ponies and in general keep the mines from becoming ln foul underground underground underground under under- ground lakes Today's resolution was i interpreted interpreted inter inter- er- er as meaning that the miners would permit n the of all It the n 0 pits In Great Britain Under the emergency regulations which have been in force forc since the present industrial trouble became acute five ago the go government government govern govern- ment would b be beable able to to toman man the mine pumps with volunteers or troops or or to take tale virtually any means to prevent the incalculable loss which would result from from widespread widespread widespread wide wide- spread s sabotage in the pits LQ LONDON JOX Oc 7 jAP SAP The gov- gov ov- ov ov-I ov a attempt c y iettIe et le j ong dra ure h g failed A delegate conference of I th the miners miners' f federation Jei-ait Jei n tOd today y unanimously adopted adopt d a resolution rejectIng reject reject- iu lug Ing the propos proposals after the an announcement announcement announcement an- an of a district voto vote to that effect of to The rue government proposals rejected reject reject- ed by the miners today were contained contained con con- tamed in a letter sent by Premier Baldwin on September 17 to A A. A J. J Cook general secretary of th the miners' miners federation The principal point was an as assurance assurance assurance as- as that if the miners returned to work they would be given government government government gov gov- assistance in obtaining a wide nation-wide agreement In effect if not In word Such an agreement has been one of the main points held out by the men Mr Balli Baldwin win admitted that he had failed in efforts to bring the owners owners owners own own- ers Into a conference on a national agreement covering hours and wages as desired by the men but said that the owners throughout the country were generally g willing willingto to admit the principles that such a national agreement would secure He therefore appealed to the miners to return to work under provisional provisional pro pro- visional districts agreements while I the agreement prepared legislation to establish a national tribunal of I appeal The miners numbering more than a million went on strike May 1 1 to support a demand for continuation continuation continuation of the postwar rates of pay and hours of ot work after the withdrawal withdrawal withdrawal with with- of the government subsidy on that date The mine owners with the end of the subsidy had Continued on page 4 STRIKERS VOTE T j TAKE ALL MEN FROM A MIN Continued from proposed a reduction in fp pa 13 3 1 per cent and an ic from seven to eight hour l working day at atA A general strike called a night May 4 to support stand collapsed after nine days day British Press association tern semi cial news agent that to date of the all miners had turned to work J U f |