Show samuel gompers who with W S stone head hand of the locomotive engl has bits been working to bring about a compromise made tho the for vacation odthe of the injunction against the ho strike ond and issued a statement designed to justify the demands ande by the strikers find and the operators of much and unfairness tile the totter latter retorted with a statement saying that mr air gompers Oom pers pronouncement was full fill ot of mIsrop misrepresentations re continuing it Is not true that the operators representatives wafred wolfed out of secre fary ary Wilso Wll sona nR conference leaving mr let L with no alternative hut but to call a strike tile the operators representatives accepted president Wil wilsons sons proposal in its entirety and withdrew from tile the conference in order that flint their presence might not embarrass secretary wilson in tits his effort to per sundo anode the miners to take tho the honorable course thus opened to them at the time of their withdrawal the operators advised Sec secretary wll son that they would remain to n washington awaiting tits his call to furter conference ll 11 it Is not true its as mr air gompers implies pi les hat flint the ho miners nrc are not permitted by the operators to work full elmp the operators have no control over the lie demand tor for coal they can merely stand ready to produce and furnish it when the public requires and la 13 willing to accept it allt it 16 not true that tile the miners re celver on lin advance of 29 2 can cents is a ton in 1014 1914 it Is IF not true that the operators wised the lie price of coal 5 a ton in 1014 on the lie contrary the price ans red 11 coil it Is in not true na as mr gompers states mot lint for tile ho past several years the lill miners ners have averaged only to working days A year efer it t Is n fact however aind mr gompers could easily linao it that virtually every bituminous mine in tile lie country tins hns on its any roll a substantial of nion men who deliberately lay off from ono one to three dilys a 0 work when they have nn an opt opi port unity to work |