Show MIERS A Ar AND r AT R RI I fA APA APART T TI I Efforts of Secretary of I La Labor bor Wilson to Avert Coal Strike Are Barren Barren Barren Bar Bar- ren of Res Results u 1 t S WASI WASHINGTON Oct ct 22 1 Miners and operators called callea here by Secretary Wilson in hl an effort to settle the the-coak the strike ordered for November 1 still sub were Y were re today Id p today o I V John L L. Lewis president of ot the United Mine Workers Yorkers of ot America de declared declared declared de- de there was no change In the sit sit- Operators refuse to say what proposal was made to them or if It they would recede from their position not notto notto notto I to negotiate a wage agreement unless the strike order was withdrawn STORMY MOMENT I I. There was a stormy moment at the meeting when Lewis reading from a speech made by Senator quoted Secretary Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son as saying before the senate Interstate Interstate interstate Inter Inter- state commerce committee that the miners miners mi ml- ners had made impossible demands The secretary replied that only part of I his statement had been repeated by Senator adding he had I said mid demands by both sides were impossible Im Im- im- im possible Just before noon Secretary Wilson was in separate conference with willi the operators' operators r representatives The Tile union committeemen were excused until p. p m m. when the Joint cont conference rence was to be resumed No explanation of ot this move was made GOVERNMENT MAY ACT Failure of operators and miners to settle their difference after a four- four hour conference yesterday with Secretary Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- of at Labor Wilson Vilson may force torce th the government to step in and prevent the strike of ot bituminous coal miners miners miners min min- ers called for November 1 1 While the full tull scale committee representing representing rep rep- resenting miners and operators were fighting their battles behind a closed door a strike storm raged in the senate senate senate sen sen- ate and federal agencies looked up the law firmly convinced It would have to tobe tobe tobe be Invoked to save the country from untold distress and suffering with mines shut down and less loess than a months month's stock on hand to keep fires tires burning |