Show A lR T To AVERT AVRI 4 ii T I J Representatives of Miners Miners Min Min- ers and Operators Meet With Secretary f Wilson i in Final Effort f v Oct 21 IW W vv Representatives of min miners rs operators met today with I Secretary of Labor Wilson in a final inal effort to settle wage disi dis- dis i U se and thus avert the strike of ot bituminous us coal miners called caned for tor torO O ove 1 John Jphn L. L Lewis president of ot the United i Mine lIno Workers of It America and aull l Thomas T. T Brewster chairman of ot tho operators operators' operators operators' committee headed the two legations delegations et comprising in to all nearly Marly 00 members In opening opening- the tho conference Secre- Secre ary ary Wilson Ilson urged that the differences e o adjusted In some way WilY so as to tofo jave avo the count country untold distress from fo ho is c closing down of or mines In winter Sf Lewis and Brewster on their way no jap to tho the meeting which was secret each Declared that miners and operators were were standing firm There will be no settlement unless all our demands including the five five- day lay week are granted Lewis said while Brewster announced that the operators op op- wOuld note not open peace negotiations negotiations nero nero- unless tho the strike order was withdrawn After Atter conferring with members ol ot orthe the miners' miners committee arrived here nere during the day President Lewis declared there would be bo no compro- compro rise of ot any of ot the Issues Involved 3 Iterated that tho the old wartime wage agreement went out of ot existence with the end of ot hostilities nearl nearly a year ago and nd that operators could meet the new ew wage demands without Increasing the cost of or coal Lewis entered rigorous vIgorous vigorous vig rig orous denial of ot reports that In standing standing stand stand- ing out for tho the five day week the mine workers were trying to force torce through an ultra-radical ultra doctrine Although the full tull scale committees fix the pay In the central competitive tl tive field embracing Indiana Illinois Ohio and western Pennsylvania Lewis explained that tho strike order affected at- at bituminous miners everywhere who he said will quit work the first of ot next month unless some agency meanwhile Tan ran prevent It IL |