Show STRIKE AS l il CHIEF BOWS TO CO RT ORDER It El I J r i QUIT IT I J 8 j jI I KANAS AN A Imprisonment of Howat Hovat Arouses Arouse's Ire of Union Me Men I National Plan of Settlement Is Pushed j I I By Associated ted Press PITTSBURG Kan Ken Dec 23 Sev Sev Seventeen enteen Kansas coal mines where approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately miners are employed were idle this morning The miners went on strike in protest against the action of Judge Anderson at Indianapolis Indian Indian- apolis spoils yesterday sending Alexander Howat president of the Kansas district dis dis- United Mine Workers of America America Amer Amer- ica to jail INDIANAPOLIS Dec 23 Alexan der Howat president of the Kansas district United Mine Workers Workers' of America was rele released sed from frem Marion county jail today by United States I District Judge A. A B. B Anderson B. B Howat agreed to join the international officers officers oW- oW cers of the mine workers in sending telegrams to the district executive board in Kansas in an endeavor to have all strikes in the Kansas coalmines coal coalmines coalmines mines ended Howat was released on his previous bail and if the agreement is is carried out in good faith the hearing on the tho contempt charges against Howat set for next Monday probably will be indefinitely continued as in the cases of the international and district officers officers cers of the mine workers The telegrams to the Kansas miners mi miners miners' mi mi- miners miners' ners' ners executive board not only will ask the return of the men out on the beer strike since last July but butwill butwill butwill will order the return of the men who struck yesterday and today in protest against Judge Andersons Anderson's action in in sending Howat to jail Dec 23 23 W VY Final plans were being made today for the work of the coal commission appointed by I President Wilson Despite the protests of ot the operators against the th commission and the powers power given ehen it It the administration is 18 going ahead to reach a final settlement of ot the controversy controversy con con- and is relying upon the operators operators oper oper- to accept the final settlement plan Should the operators balk the administration administration ad ad- ad- ad administration ministration Is prepared t 16 take steps slops 1 to put the settlement plan In force This is Indicated by a statement from General Palmer declaring the tho j government will not assume that the tho operators will break faith and wi Wa ways a s swill will be bo found to see that all parties keep faith in fn this vitally important transaction The commission will proceed proceed pro pro- j coed with its Us work and I have no doubt that upon further reflection the opt operators operators oper oper- r- r will see the wisdom of ht hearty c operation with it CANNOT AGREE Operators still in session here heN have ha bC been en unable to agree on any definite course Those members of ot the th committee committee com com- here declare that they haven't h to refuse fuse the proposition put forward forward forward for for- ward by the go t government eminent and In attempts attempts at at- at tempts to secure curt such power by a long distance telephone poll of ot the tho operators they ther have not bet been n altogether r success success- s- s ful I There is every indication that when the final showdown comes the opt operators operators oper oper- rI r- r will accept the settlement plan I although probably under protest roLt sL I While the they have been silent as to the personnel fo to the commission It is I I known that one of the chief objections objection to it is I. the representative of the operators oper oper- operators i I Rembrandt Peale Operators feel that Peale in is not a representative of the th opera operators to and h has not nOL sufficient intimate knowledge of ot the coal Industry to wage n a successful tight fight for the opt operators against so expert a labor i representative as John P. P White LATER MEETING The operators operator hope hop to hold a meerIng meet meer- mp meeting fIng f- f ing after Christmas with all operators present nt to take some Home definite action on the presidents president's The statement l I by Senator chairman of the senate committee Investigating coal coat that the settlement plan Is loaded dice for the public did not disturb the tho adminis adminis- |