Show EJ LI EJ a LJ o LJ a LJ LI LI 11 M I I SERVES N Nr fl r r Gar Garfield field Summons Warring arring Factions To H Hear eat ar Verdict WASHINGTON Nov 26 A A definite and final statement on onvy vy behalf of the government in the coal wage controversy will willbe willbe willbe be made to the operators and miners late today by Fuel Administrator Administrator Administrator Adminis Adminis- Garfield Final decision was reached by the cabinet at a m meeting eting today Dr Garfield and Secretary Wilson said The fuel administrator called a joint session of the operators and nd miners for 5 p. p m. m to receive the decision While neither Dr Garfield nor members of the cabinet W would U say w what la the c cabinets cabinet's nets d decision cisi was s it t was s r reported p t the fuel I administrator lead had won his point foran for an Increase from 20 to 25 5 per cent fin in miners' miners wages as against the 31 per cent proposed by Secretary Wilson Wil VII Wilson J son and agreed to by the miners Dr Garfield's statement to to to the miners an and operators w was Wll as expected ted to tobe tobe tobe I be somewhat some In the nature of an 1 ultimatum The 20 to 25 pe per cent ent Increase was said eald to be acceptable to toI I the operators but grave doubt was wasI expressed as to whether the miners I would approve it OPERATORS OPERATORS' BURDEN After Arter the cabinet meeting there was wasa I a somewhat general Impression that the operators would be called upon to toI bear practically all of the proposed I wage Increase but officials withheld i I comment I Thus far the e position SI of the 1 mine I hi Ott union officials ia has been n that they I could not accept anything less than I the original demands of the Cleveland i convention for a CO per pel cent Increase i In wages and a thirty-hour thirty week without the approval of that conven- conven J f tion Should they hold to this view after the meeting Dr Garfield said it might be that several weeks would elapse before a final settlement was wasI I reached I SITUATION CRITICAL I During the day the operators and miners marked time In their negotiations negotiations negotiations I for tor a new wage scale Meantime so man many miners over the file country had remained on strike that the coal situation had reached what officials described as a national I crisis Steps to meet the situation until something like llIe normal Production productIon production 1 tion n had been restored were under I consideration by the fuel administrations administration's tion's central coal committee I with an Order prohibiting the manufacture of c coke le the first move In the I nationwide campaign |