Show FAIL TO AGREE ON WAGE INAGE FOR MINERS CONFER CONFERENCE NCE CALLED BY BY BY- PRESIDENT DENT WILSON UNABLE TO REACH SETTLEMENT Coal Situation Now Up to Chief Executive Exec Exec- Both Operators and Miners Miner'S Reporting That Conference Has Proved a Failure Cleveland O. O Miners Miners attending a conference of the Joint scale committee commit commit- tee of ot the central competitive field held a policy meeting on Thursday following failure of the Joint conference conference confer conter- ence to agree on the miners' miners demands for tor increased wages and adjourned sine die after voting unanimously that miners in each of the four states concerned concerned concerned con con- will seek to make a supplemental tal and separate agreement with operators operators oper oper- In the field This practically disrupts the central field as a basing point Inasmuch as the Joint conference was called by President Wilson operators operators oper oper- tors and miners sent separate telegrams telegrams telegrams tele tele- grams to the president advising him of tin the failure to reach an agre agreement ment 2 The telegram sent by the operators was a statement of the fact that the joint conference had failed to adjust the controversy after five days of almost almost almost al al- al- al most continuous conference The miners' miners telegram was optimistic tic In tone saying the miners would endeavor to make separate and individual individual indi indi- vidual agreements with with- the operators in the various states We have found It Impossible to reach an agreement with the coal coat operators of the central competitive field bearing upon the issues involved Involved In in- the miners' miners telegram signed by President Lewis said There Is no controversy affecting any principle princIple principle but merely a difference of opinIon opinion Ion as to what constitutes an Inequality Inequality ity ity ty and the degree to which It should be adjusted i |