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Show . THE WEATHER. Friday and Saturday, generally fair; allghtly warmer Friday aouthweet portion. Local ' Settlement Prices. Silver Domestic. Kc; foreign Copper (cathodes). Thousands, upon thousands of readers scan The Tribune Want columns daily. . ' TP He 113 SI 4 5.i Cmr, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE SALT LAKE VOL. 105, NO. 77. 24 PAGES 30, 1922. FIVE CENTS 5M000. SHE Rail Board Cites Leaders of Unions in Plan to Stay Strike Ordered for July 1 OVERNDH SHOUP DUBLIN'S BUTTLE . Acting Under Authority of Transportation Act, Federal Body Summons Chieftains to Veteran-I- Appear atlnquiry. Nine -- Companies" For- for Walkout Is Dispatched From Chicago Headquarters. of- - Colo- Opening of New Industrial Era in Western States Free State' Forces and Radby Creation of Vast New Enterprise. icals Still Contending for - tion act, created to maintain orderly as the final hope of avertloomed tonight arteries, transportation ing the threatened rail strike of 400,000 shopmen, and possibly half a million more railroad workers. Their ultimatum to the railway executive rejected. Chief executives of the six shop, crafta unions, which have called a strike for 10 a. m. Saturday and the leaders of four other unions now polling a strike vote prepared tonight to answer the summons of the United States rail road labor board to appear in a federal investigation at 2 p. m. tomorrow. With the union heads were summoned railroads, the executives of twenty-thre- e charged by the employees with illegally contracting shop work in violation of the board's ortlera, one of the three questions on which the shop men hae been casting strike Ittllots for the last two weeks. Other railway executives of the 201 class 2 roads In the country also were asked to be present. Events Move Quickly. Developments of the strike situation came in rapid sequence today. International presidents of the sx shop unions their announced telegrams authorising mornmembership to walkout Saturday ing had been sent out, The labor board Immediately recognised a threatened interruption of traffic, and, of the transacting under the authority a citation to the portation act, issued strike leaders to come before it for official Inquiry. The Association of Ratway Executives, meeting here oij othr natters, considered and rejected the union proposal of a truce wages and pending new negotiations over The executives deworking conditions. would be against the clared that a strike orders of the labor board andandagainst thus the United States government, absolved themselves from further rejpon- There situation. aibllitv to is little likelihood, rail heads said, that any conferences could ofbethearranged to employees mend the differences and the roads, ahd most of the executives homes. departed tonight lor their -- Expect to .Appear. Executives of only sixteen of the twenty-troads cited were pnesent et toexpected to apday's meeting, hut theytomorrow. board pear before the The July 1 60,0KM00 wage cut and modification of seven rules, hitting the a severe blow, shop workers overtime payinvolved in the were the two questions are condiwhich vote atrlke shopmen's tions laid down by the labor board, according to the carriers' theposition. roads would of those orders by be "to recogmee your power and authority the of government," es greater than that the executives reply to the union ultimatum said. The reply was directed to B. M. Jewell, president of the railway employees' of the American FVxieratSon of Labor, of which all unions which threaten walkout are members, -- it was signed of the exby T. DeVVitt Cuyler, chairman ecutives' association, which unanimously deunion to the adopted the answer mands. hree Ie-flan- Strike Order Goes Out. Strike orders signed by the six craft s orpresidents of the railroad shopmen to genganisation were sent ouf today eral chairmen representing 400,000 men, authorizing a strike at 10 a. m. on July 1 "on all railroads and Pullman shops in the United States, follows: order of the strike text The "In compliance with the strike vote, all shop craft employees below the rank of general foremen are hereby granted sanction to suspend work at 10 a. m. July FARGO, N. E June 20 (By the As- sociated Press ) Returns compiled at 1 oclock this morning by Nonpartisan n league state headquarters from 1256 from Wednesday's elSctlon gave I.ynn J. Frazier a lead of 848 for the Ke- publican nomination for United States senator over Porter J. McCumber, pres- ent incumbent, The ote in these pre- clncts is. Frazier, 57, SOS. McCumber, 56,960. The same precincts jrive Bert F. Baker, league indorsed candidate tor the Republican gubernatorial nomination, to Goernor H. a. Nestos 62,110, a lead of 13,116 for Nestos. j Senator McCumber Mastery in Irish Capital. Chictfo Tribune Salt Lake Tribune Leased Wire. FARGO. N. D, June J. Mc- Cumber, senior senator from North kota and chalsman of the senate finance committee, has been defeated for the Re publican nomination to succeed himself oy Lynn J. Frazier, former governor. Indorsed by the Nonpartisan league Frazier majority will be about 15,000, according to returns available tonight, league state headquarters here ilalmed .TW'w 1 Returns up to midnight from 1256 out of 2181 precincts give Frazier 57.808 and McCumber 6,960. F The remaining prep , , cincts to be heard from are all league where the vote is three to one territory, to twenty to. one for the league candiVeteran North Dakota legislator, who tits dates. There are about 73,000 more Republican been defeated for renomlnatlon. voters to hear from. On the governorship available returns Indicate a majority of between 5000 and 10,00c for the league candidate, B, F. Baker over R A, Nestos, Incumbent, who defeated JFTaier in the recall last fall. NeHtoS had a majority then of 4300. Only a few scattering returns are In on ithe other Republican candidates, but these all indicate that Baker is low man among the league Indorsed candidates, indications now are that the Nonpartisan league made a clean sweep In the Republican primary all along the line from United States senator down. ft jtfVTfAS j&y of Trans No Interruption portation, Capital Says, When Rail Strike Ensues. SEARS HENNING. By ARTHUR Chicago Tribune-Sal- t WASHINGTON, Lake Tribune Lee&i Wire. June 29. "There will be no Interruption of tiansportatlon If emthe threatened strike of railway ployees should take place." This was the statement of a high administration official tonight when advised that a walkout of the shoperafts had been employees of the railroads called, to take effect on Saturday. The administration regards the Btrike as wholly unjustified, holding that the employees are obligated, exactly as the railroad corporations are obligated to abide by the decisions of the railway labor board, created by the Cummins-Ksc- h transportation act. In the view of the administration, the strike Is directed at the labor board and deflea the spirit. If not the letter, of the law. Administration View. FARGO, N. T..' June 29. (By the Associated Press.) The Oourier-New- s will say tomorrow morning. "The nomination of Lynn J. Frazier over Porter J. McCumber Is assured. The territory where McCumber's strength lay and wo expected has in great part, and the vote now stands at a tie, with more than a thousand precincts to hear from, all rural and mostly In Nonpartisan territory Fraziers nomination is practically certain by more than 15,000 . votes." DEFEAT IS ADMITTED By JAMES R. NOURSE. By I'nlTcrxal Service. WASHINGTON, June 29 Senator Por- ter James McCumber, old guard Republican and chairman of the finance committee, the most powerful and Important committee of .congress, today conceded his defeat by former Goternor Frazier in the Republican senatorial primary in North Dakota. McCumber told Senators Curtis, Watson, Lodge, Smoot and other old guard leaders report received left no doubt of his defeat. Although early reports put him In the lead, he admitted that these returns were from cities where it was acknowledged he would win. returns showed McCumber less . The than two to one In the city vote, whereas he had counted upon a lead. Senator Edwin F. Ladd, the other North I akota senator, who was sent to the senate by the same forces which backed Frazier, the Nonpartisan league, receli el a message claiming Fras,ers nomination by not less than 15,000. Although McCumber's defeat was a crushing blow to him personally, coming as It does at the end of twenty-fou- r years of continuous service In the senate, he accepted the result stoically. He sat at his desk throughout the session, guiding the tariff bill, which has mads It Impossible for him to make a . . - . canvass for renom'natiun-McCumber's support of the soldier bonus bill will not be altered by his de- . shop-craf- ts LONDON, June 30. Free State troops rushed the Four Courts at late hour, capturing three parts of the building, according to a Dublin dispatch to the Times. This operation was put through without savor firing. j LONDON, June 30 A dispatch to the Dally. Mall from Dublin, timed 1 oclock Friday morn.ng, says government troops have entered the east wing of the Four Courts, which was battered by artillery this morning. Some of the garrison Is still hold ng out. Firing continues In- termittently. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Dublin says Rory O'Connor and Llanv Meilowes with 130 followers hold the rear of the Four Courts building. The artillery firing was renewed at 3 43 o'clock this (Friday) morning. The prisoners taken by the Free Staters number thirty-threIncluded. LONDON, June 30. A- dispatch to the Troops 2 30 o'clock timed from Times Dublin, The following organizations are included In the mobilization order, which this (Friday) morning, sa s the Free directs that the units be held at their Staters who attacked the Four Courts home stations In readiness to mot e on are commanded and being personally led an Instant a noticeby Brigadier General Daley. Forty-fift- h After brisk artillery and machine gun division tank corps, Denver. fire General Daley led his men from Ih of 117th B the south side of the Llffey across Grafton .Denver Troop calvalry Headquarters company, 157th Infantry, street and the bridges. Sown th The gunfire had broken Greeley. git. First battalion headquarters, IBUIkJn - - god jo,brlakly did the iree- State sol- diers make the ascent that they did not fantry, Canon- -. Howitzer company, 157th infantry, suffer any serious casualties. , Canon City. As they crossed the court yard rifle K .ompany, 157tn Infantry, Brighton. butts and rams broke down the Inner H. company, 157Bi Infantry, Fort Col- door and, ns the fell, the defender lins. poured a withering fire upun the attackI companv, 157th Infantry. Longmont. ing forces. F company, 137th Infantry. Boulder Steel helmets to equip the organ'zatlons Three Rebels Killed. Three rebel soldier were killed outCeatioaed ea Page Sena right hy gunfire and ten others were (Ctlnu Twe.) d wounded In fighting which ensued. threw up of the Irregular Twenty-tw- o their hands and surrendered, while Rory O'Connor, with Brigadier General Tray-ru- ir and 170 men, retreated to a far corner of the court Quickly throwing up barricades, they are now holding th Fre Staters at bav. a great The Free Staters captured machine guns and exquantity of rifles, se- acme plosives. It Is thought that by e. V Grand Jury Herrin Probe Murders Amo-elat- non-uni- Continued on Fog Eight (Ooiuioa Oao.) Woman Loses Legal Fight Senate Sustains Committee for $20,000,000 Estate Tariffs on Foodstuffs DeNEW YORK!, June 29. The supreme court today dismissed Mrs. Marie Hark-ne- s Cowan's suit to establish herself as sole heir of the 820,000,000 estate of the Minority late Harry Stephens Hark ness. Standard Oil magnate. Mrs. Cowan, Harkness's first wife, conon his On tended that the will he made WASHINGTON, June 29 Tariff to foodstuffs occupied the attention of the death bed In 1919. leaving everything Hark-r.ee- s, Mrs. S. wife. Florence his second senate again today, with committee rate was invalid and asked that a muon milk, cream, poultry and honey receivtual will Sxecuted by Mr Harkness and short'y after their marriage In ing overwhelming Indorsement despite heiself 1906 be held the last' will and testafights from the Democratic side and some ment. opposition from the majority side in the The defense showed Mrs. Cowan had case of the rate on cream. Duties ap- executed a general release of all claims against Harkness in 1916, upon payment proved were: Milk, fresh, 24 cents a gallon, house to her of 8200,000. 1 1 sour rate cent; and buttermilk, cent a gallon, house rate H cent, cream, 22 H Police Collide cents a gallon, house rates from 3 to 10 cents; milk powder, 5 cents a pound, in house rate 8 cents. Poultry, alive, 3 cent a pound, house PARIS, June 29 (By the Associated rate 2 cents; dressed, 6 cents a pound, house rate 4 cents; all other poultry Press ) A coll Mon between the police 8 and the Communists occurred ted&v In cents dressed. per pound, house rate 20 per cent ad valorem; poultry prepared the suburban town of Aenieres, provoked or preserved and not specially i ro,!ded hy on attempt of the authorities to make , house rate 22 a tevy aflhe home of two fTommu--nist- s for. Super cent Adt on .who had refused to pay tax per cent. Honey, 3 cents A pound, house rate 2H their salaries. A considerable force of police, and the cents. - Debate ever and cream duties republican guards were called out In developed a controversy among New En- viiw of the resistance, while the Comgland senators. The amendment of Sena- - munist organ Humanite made an appeal to all Communists to assemble in the suburb to oppose the aelsure of the fur-- n Contia.M ea Page Eight t (Ootums Ou,l ture of the delinquent. Report spite With Reds Suburb of Paris akx-em- the-mtl- k Senator Myers of Montana Denounces Hollywood Colony in Censorship Plea non-uni- Taster at an Advanced Veteran Face Hindu Leader Sedition Trial Charge -- o. A r . Completion of Merger Plans Includes Purchase of Carbon and Iron County Properties Owned , ; : by Utah Financial Leaders. , WASHINGTON, June ' 29. Declaring that Free love, dissipation, debauchery and drunkenness' exist in the motion picture colony at Hollywood, Cai., Sena- tor Myers, Democrat. Montano, appealed in the senate today for action on his bills proposing a censorship and investigation in the motion picture industry, and it product. Pres Mr. Myers read an Associated dispatch telling of a promise made by Mr. Hays yestsrda y in a speech before the convention of the general Federation of Woman's --Club at Chautauqua, movies at their N. Y., to "cleans aouree. The senator said he favored Such action, but believed it should be effected "In the form of official censorship." "I am afraid tha dollar mark will be the censor unless laws are enacted pro- viding official censorship," said Benator Myera." He lauded the Purpose- - Mr.Hays explained in the address y ester- day, but said It "looks like Mr. Hays wss employed to prevent censorship," There la a powerful movement for official censorship, Senator Myers continued, "that la bound to grow because It Is needed and Is a good thing " Report that the public was opposed to censorship were dented by the senator, who as-- , sorted the belief that the 'people who want official censorship wlU not let the movement be stifled by promisee of voluntary reforms." Benater Myers referred o a number of event. Including the "Arbuckle and "th Taylor murder. and declared there "were many, which involvrd th motion pictures and actors." The recent murder-?f--ma- n In -- Washington, by four youths," he said, wss no doubt Inspired by ideas of romance and ertma" obtained from motion pictures. The Montana senator In th course of an attack on the Industry which accompanied hla appeal for action declared It wo his opinion that Will H. Hays, former postmaster general, wo amployed by the industry to prevent Imposition of a federal cenaorslflp ce." -- I t v Special to The Salt Lake Tribune. SAN FRANCISCO, June 29. Utahs industrial era and a new. season of economic independence of the west were inaugurated to day when AViggington E. Creed, president of the Pacific Gas & Electric company and of the Columbia Steel company, formally announced that a new $15,000,000 corporation will build a steel Illinois Woman Produces Her Partnership Figures lt Lake Tribune Leased Wire. AURORA. Ill Jun 29. Mrs. Cott-lel- g WUrett of Malta, 111., balanced the marital ledger In court today In her divorce suit. Her figure showed that for bearing four children, only one of whom died, for working In the fields, milking cows and doing other work os well aa making several Investments, she owneJ half of her husband farm. She .nslsted there was no padding In her figures, either. Item one In her investment was her dowry of 2924 marks, value of 192. when her husband had only J1 trark to put Her second Into the partnership. of 2691) item was an Inheritance marks, all oF which she put Into the farm. Her husbnnd c can while inherited 4865 marks and became Independent. The wife charges cim with desertion, saying he rented the farm to one of th r son at )15 an acre and without went, away, leaving Chicago Tribune-Sa- br hma. Will industry for the --west "The newcon- -' cern, to be known as the Columbia Steel corporation, ha acquired the cool properties of the Utah Coal and Cok com pany in Carbon county, and vast Iron deposits in Iron county, Utah, as well as the Portland, Ore., steel foundry and the Pittsburg, California eteel foundry and rolling mill of th Columbia Steel company. Aaaoclated with Mr. Creed in the development of this project of vast significance are Utah men who have been Instrumental in presenting the need tor the development of th raw materia1 which this state has to offer in such abundance. Among these are W. W. National Armstrong, president of th Copper bank; L. F. Rain, president of the Carton Fuel company; Attorney Adrian C. Ellis, Jr E. J. ILrddatz, .president of th THitlc Standard Mining com- pany and Duncan MacVlchte, an engineer of long experience. ' Backed by Financiers. ,. ; In San Franplsco Mr. Creed t associated In the enterprise with J. D. Grant, A. M. (Sark, D. H. Botchford. A. B. Boynton. Jcfreph Bloss. W. P. Himmon, John S. Drum, Herbert Fleishhaker. Mor- - " and Alfred Eaberg. These men represent some of the meet finanImportant industrial a well, cial institutions hi the west end bring to the corporation their strong faith In the important destiny of the undertaking. In hU statement today Mr. Creed aavs; The Columbia Steel company has acquired the coal properties of th Utah Coal and Coke company In Carbon county and extensive iron properties In Iron county, Utah. The purchase will be ef. fected through the organization of a new corporation to take over the rolling mills and steel foundries of the Columbia Steel company and the assets of the Utah Coal and Coke company. An Intensive Investigation, extending ever a period of more than eight months, has demon- strated that the Utah coal and Iron props ertles can be used to form the basis si an independent steel industry tor the acific coast and 'mountain territory., Definite plans have not been matured ex- - ' cept, to the point of effecting the purchase and consolidation, but tnw program for future development Is now being ' worked out, er a, hand-to-han- BY VETERAN SENATOR four-to-o- -- DENVER, Colo, June 29. Nine com pamea of the Colorado national guard axe under orders to mobilize tonight In cities and towns of the state Ir.g the burning of two railroad bridges and the damaging of mines In northern and southern Colorado coal fields last 7. iht and eir today. Orders for the mobilization of the guard and for the re ruiting of the ranger force from its present strength of fifty men to a total strength of approximated 400 were issued late today by Colonel Patrick J. Hamrock, state adjutant general, following a conference with Governor Ollier H. Shoup. First reports of the burning of bridges and mines m the coal fields were received at the adjutant geneial s office this mornWithin an hour Governor Shoup, ing. who had been at his home in Colorado springs, was on his way to Denver. In less than half an hour the conferem e between the goxernor and the adjutant general telephoned orders were be. rig dispatched to commanding officers of the various guard units" ts 49,-9- ?! - J pre-ete- If the shoperafts employees walk out the railroads will be justified, according to the administration viewpoint. In contracting with private concerns for their repair work. The labor board recently held that the contracts made by the railroads with outside companies for reTwe pair woik were a violation of the transCratinxed ea portation act. (Column On,.) This decision, wtth which the railroads are understood to be complying by termiIs Given nating such illegal contracts, Was a victory for the railroad employees who to His opened their fight on this procedure more than ago. They eh urged that the had resorted to this practice in NEW YOftK. June 29. (Bv the As- railroads to down the force of order cut sociated Press.) The bulk of the estate employees and avoid paying the left by William Rockefeller, oil magContinued a P Tkr t fixed in their agreements with the nate reputed to have been one of the wages Columa Two.) railway unions. richest men in the world, was bequeathed to Tils four children, under the terras to- - Forced to Alternative. to of- hla will filed for probate late If, despite this decision In favor of the of value Mine the entire etatedh virtually unions, the Shoperafts employees atrlka which was cloaked In the legal phrase and the railroads are Unable to procure immeto was tte left over 110,000" repairs in their own shops In order to ' MARION. III., Jurte 29. (By the diate family, with no charitable be- keep the trains running the carriers will Frees.) A special grand Jury on 10 will begin Investigating the masfaced with the choice of recruiting be quests. After certain deductions, Mr. Rocke- nonunion skilled employees to do the July men by last week of sacre feller, who died recently at hla home es-In work or contracting for repairs with out- union atriklng miners near Herrin, Cirhis that North Torrytown. directed was concerna side announced Hartwell It a out cuit pointed today. Judge tate should be divided- - Into four parts difficulty probably would be encountered with this announceSimultaneously and given his children Percy and Wil- In recruiting a sufficient number of ment. Coroner McCown began excavation Geraldine liam O, Rockefeller. Mrs. skilled workmen!? take the place of the of the Southern Illinois Coal companys men Uodgh and Mrs. Emms McAIpIn. sho'pcraMs strikers and that the rail- strip mine, where the roads would be compelled to turn to the were employed, following rumore that a refor were burled bodies of stock there. number equipped companies rolling Dies . pair work. Tea this would be done in Ufe interest to Age of Atpreventing the interruption of transwhich the transportation act portation. on Lake Trtbaoe leed WTrw. was designed to guard against, the prac Ghteeie TrfbnM-g.l- t NEW YORK. June 29. Leonard Beebe, tlce would be legal, in the opinion of the AMPITSAR. India, June 29. (By the administration. long known as world's champion tea If the maintenance of way employees Associated Press.) Gurdlt Singh, the taster, died today in $9.his boms In Should strike enough common labor, it Is Hindu merchant who in 1914 was preBrooklyn at tha age of be will from available vented fill to landing a shipload of Hindu believed, the a When he retired year ago Beebe, Immigrants from the Japanese steamer who had been identified with tea Implaces of tho strikers. ' for Moru at Vancouver, surrenPresident Harding haa been favorably Komagata seventy years, wss with portation police today after eluding Carter. Macey ft Co., one of the largest Impressed by the manner lit which the dered to the Ha will be tried them for seven years tea Importing firma in the world. He railway labor board hae decided disputes, principally for joined that company in 1891, previously enforced its decisions tip to date, al- on the charge of sedition, In In disorder In Cahe In been the business enforcement played lacking time though some adequate part for having 1914. - tor hlmsalf, In 1914, In order power, and averted threatened strikes lcutta In October, but later to test the Canadian Immigration law. In his seventy years ss taster of tea such as the walkout called, Beebe sampled mans millions of dollars' rescinded by the brotherhoods of train Gurd'.t Singh attempted to land 936 Hinworth and on hla reports enormous quan- operating employees last year. Ha Is du Immigrants at Vancouver. The Cahopeful that the board again will be nadian court of appeals finally denied the tities of tea were grafted. Tea tasters successful in avoiding this strike, but, right of the Hindus to land. both sniff and taste dried leaves and deterin any event, be Intends to stand squareThey were- - taken back to Calcutta, smell and. alp the brawed tee to disorders occurred when some of behind board and glvs tha pro- Lr was the conceded Beebe ly mine its quality. refused to board tor the . to, ba without a Gear in hla Una in Amer-l- vision of the transportation set for endStrike the menace, fair tryout. puujahf region whence they had coma. ing , Rockefeller Estate Four Children . -- I & Later Returns Cut Deep Burning of Bridge and De Valera Praises and Mul Into Lead Taken Soon Damaging of Mines Recahy Scotes Attempts to CHICAGO, June 29. (By the Associated Press.) Intervention f of the the transportathe federal government under authority sult in Prompt Action. After Count Undermine Government. Began. course of the nations the by . ed rado Guards to Mobilize to Preserve Public Order. mer Governor Lynn J. Frazier by Decisive Vote. Railway Executives Are Also Cited; Formal Call . Defeated by s Iron and Coal Deposits A of State Are Acquired by Large Corporation ' Seek CompromUe Basis at Conference on Coal Strike Situation. L4 Wire. Lake Tribune Cblr.se Tribune-Bai- t Jun 29. Prealdent WASHINGTON, Harding Intend to glv th coal operator and atriklng miners an opportunity to make peace voluntarily when they - him-Saturday. meet in conference-with If that plan fal. he will propose a compromise basis of negotiation. What thin basis m'ght be administration officials were not prepared to state definitely, although It was hinted that It would propose a national agreement. The mine worker have said they were w.lltng to negotiate either a national agreement or one covering the central f'eld. Th operatoia have competlt.v asserted they would negotiate only State or district agreements. In calling the conference the president avoided taking the attitude of either side. It Is fielther a national nor a district conference, nor one .confined to the central competit ve -- field. It la a conference of operators and miners from the bituminous and anthracite fle d affected by th strike. If negotiations en a national basis should evolve from the th conference White House meeting would be extended to Include all the coal In the interests country. producing The Presidents Plan. -- Coal Practically Tested , "The west need the basic industries of Iron and steel fully developed and nn unusual opportunity 'exists tear progress In this direction through cooperation of California and Utah In the, utilization their .natural, resources." further: The Columbia Steel company has been investigating the properties of the Utah Coal and Coke company for the past right months, during which time all of 'the properties purchased were tested by experts and the entire situation gone over with a of Mr. Creed sold Cok marked degree of thoroughness. ovens Were constructed "near Castlegate and the coal actually tested In this manner, thus eliminating Any possible error which might be mad in a laboratory experiment. ''The purchase of the properties will make It possible for the new corpora-tlo- n to produce steel for sale in the western state much cheaper than it can be , obtained from eastern mill. F W r Immediate plans of the corporation described above outlined in the story published In The Balt Lake Tribune last No- vember, include the following main projects: Development of th raw materials, the iron and coal deposits, to a pont where thev can supply the fabricating units which will first Include A pig iron - The president mill oien the conference on Saturday and presumably w.ll give at that t me the assurance he ho promised Informally, that the Operators and miners are at Uberly to make an agreement fixing wages and thereby Indirectly affecting prices, without Incurring the of danger of prosecution for violation will the antitrust laws. Tbs conference convene st lb a. m and at 1 p. m. the president is scheduled to leave for a holiday at Gettysburg and Mar.on, returning July L Not only the miners, but tha operators, will ba numerously represented In the gathering. Jonn L. Lewis, president of the United Min Workers, and other officials of 'the organisation will be on hand and nearly a score of operators. Agree' to Attend. D. , Warrlner wired the prealdent he and two others would be here to represent the anthracite operators. Alfred M. Ogle telegraphed from that he had communicated the invitation to th operators association In th midwest ana was confident the A dozen 'response will he ' favorable. other operators wired acceptances. At some stag of th negotiations the administration Intends to pres the desirability of taking steps to effect a permanent solution of the postponement of coal production and distribution. Th wag agreement In the un'on fie ds are so Inflexible that the nonunion mines paying lower wages art taking the market away from the union mines, many of which are on tho verge of bankruptcy. If tho present movement continues th nonunion ml nos soon will b able to produce all tha coal needed and then th unions w.ll find they can strike till dooms day without affect'ng th situation. Th nonunion mine development is rhlafly In th south, threatening the industry in th north with guin. 8 that ndianapolis . Continued en Fog Eighteen (Celau Three.) What Do You Want to Know? paper is maintaining a fre bureau in Washington for use of its readers. 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