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Show 4 rSIDAY. MARCH THE SUV. FADE EIGHT 1 T AH- - EVERT FEXDAT. i , i ANTHRACITE OPERATORS AGREE IfW ,1 -- 1 . 'I oM-rator-s pany. suid the Atlantic City meeting waa held to consider various phases ot the jireesnt labor situation in the anthracite fields. It was in reply to a question us to whether the o)terators would ask the miners to accept a reduction in wages at the expiration of the present contract on March 31st that lie indicated the(iuinera would iw asked to readjust the present wage rates. The present situation ia one, Warriner. said, in wliieh the priee of anthraeite coal cannot exjiect to deviate from the trend of other commo- 4 r dities. Hard Coal Too High. "Anthraeite coal ia too high when considered with other things and with eommoditiea with whieh it cornea in n eomiwtition," aaid the chief of the hard coal operators, "and prieea have got to eotne down to meet the eeonoinie situation." Warriner also said the high coat of coal to the eonaumer ia due to the coat of production and in which the mine workers' wages are a large part. There must be deflation, he added, not only in wage rates, but in freight rates and other things. He (minted out that the average increase in the cost of living since 1914 is 57.7 per rent and that the average increase in the wages of day labor in and about the anthraeite rollier-ie- e has advanced 131 tier rent since 1914. There are about a hundred thousand men employed in the aiilhraeite industry by the day. These figures do not include contract miners. Warriner would not aay whether or not the had agreed usin a definite wage basis to be submitted to the miners next month, lie (fare out the between himself and John L Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers, in arranging for the first joint meeting. Lpwia, in his letter trailer date of February Mkes-nia- 29th said: Letter From Lewis. "The wage agreement in the npthra-eit- e coal fields between the anthracite operators and the United Mine Workers of America, District 1, 2 and 9, terminates on March 31, 1922. In recognition of this fact, the international convention of the United Mine Work-er- a of America has authorised uie to address yourself sud associate anthraeite operators upon the question of the bolding of a joint conference for the purNMie of negotiating a new wage agreement to be effective from April let. As a tentative proMteition, subject to change through the necessity of mutual convenience, I suggest that ouch a joint meeting convene in New York City on Wednesday, March 15, 1922. If this suggestion should meet with the approval of the anthraeite operaton I shall be gled to arrange adequate represenatlun from the state committee and representatives of the international union." Warriner'a Reply. "I have your letter of February 20th, suggesting that a mint conference be held in New York City on Wednesday, March 15th, for the purpose of negotiating a new agreement to be effective from April 1, 1922. I regret that so little time is available before the ter-- i nation of our present agreement as to lender our negotiations hurried, but nder the circumstances your suggestion of the time and place is agreeable to ns. We will therefore he very glad to meet you in New York City ou Wednesday, March 15th." tri-distr- iet '!' Vots Left to Boards. SCRANTON, la., Fell. 27.-T- aking of a reefrenduin vote by the anthracite miners on a strike is left to the direction of the executive boards of their districts, according to a message received today by .President Thomas Kennedy from William Green, international secretary and treasurer. This decision is lielieved to lie the result of the opposition of the anthracite men to the referendum plan adopted by the Indianapolis convention. A meeting will be called within ten days to decide whether a referendum shall be taken. 'I4 "M :T! - ;:i; Situation Reviewed. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27. The situation in the anthracite coal region was discussed today at a conference between Secretary Davis and Representative Coughlin, who represents the Wilkesharre, Pa., district in edngress. Coughlin is said to have expressed concern over the termination April 1st, of the present wage scale, and is understood to hare urged that the government take a hand in an effort to prevent a strike in the event the ojierutors and miners do not agree. 4 " CtnrrllUi llll WMitn Nmsotr IafeOTtils ts the true story ot Jo; perhaps that la lu only reason for being a story at alL Jo was the gardener uf Merediths estate not a landscape gardener, but Just a humble digger of dirt I saw him upon a privileged evening when 1 waa Invited to the Merediths for dinner. Joy was slowing me tlie garden, and Joy was J. D. Meredith's only daughter. 1 noticed Jo particularly, because of his flue build and handsome face. Miss Joy prettily excused herself and left me to my own entertainment, I sought the young gardener in overalls, and drew him Idly Into conversation. Over our cigars we talked aa nura to man, 1 giving personal confidences as I motived them. And I learned that Jo had been born In a crowded, dingy locality of factory bouses. Jo's futher was one of the workmen But Ills mother Jo knew little of hia mother, nor could remember her had died la hia childhood. And as I listened to hia easy conversation, I, an old man, romanced over Jo'e motherland wondered If love for a former bam! me Jo had led her far from a pleasanter home to the dingy one of her husband. As daya passed, and I accepted Mr. Merediths lnvlUtlon to bring my books at will to the alienee of hie gardens, I cam to a realisation of the big gardener's brooding discontent Life la all wrong," he complained, "or else Im In It wrong, some way. Cant aeem to find pleasure In any- Why Are You Suffering? - PHILADELPHIA, pa., Feb. 25. The anthracite coal today announced that they Iiave agreed to meet representatives of the United Mine Work era in joint conference in New York on March 15th to negotiate a new wage agreement, li. I). Warner, chairman ot the (tolicie committee, aaid it waa the uiianiiuoua feeling of the oeratora that. there must Ih deflation in coal prices and that the mine workera for the aake of their own prosperity and t lie geueral good all around must share in this deflation. Warriner, alio ia president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation com- i i Investigation Is Coming. WASHINGTON, I). C, Feb. 27. The bureau of mines, in conjunction with the University of Utah is about to begin at its Salt Lake City exjeri-mestation a new oil shale investigation to develop an accurate method of determining the setting (mint of sl ale nt oils and their products. The investigation will be made by L. C. Karick, assistant oil abate technologist, with the assistance of E. W. Parry of the Uni- versity of Utah. RELIGIOUS CONVENTION Unusually Interesting Program nounced For Next Sunday. An- Unusual interest attaches to the religious ei invent ion whieh has been arranged to occupy the Methodist church at Price next Sunduy afternoon and evening. Starting at 2:15 o'clock the afternoon session will oien with devotions, followed by a song. Dr. John J. Lace will offer prayer. The local pus-to- r, Rev. Charles C. Drown, will deliver an address, "Devotional Life lu the Home." L. 0. Dawson will follow with "The Sunday School, Its Devclomeui and Opiort unity." A general discussion will be oHn to all. Mrs. L. 1). Nutter will reuder a solo, and Ir. Lace will fulluw with an address, "The ColThe audience will lege and Missions. join in Song No. 423, "Where Cross the Crowded Ways." Frank W. Dross will give a talk on "The World Program Our Part." A benediction by L. O. Dawson will close the meeting. In the evening at 7:45 o'clock the oiening address will be "Our Relationship to God and lta Obligations." The congregation will sing Song No. thing." 554, "O, Zion Haste." The pastor "Friends are good to have," I will make announcements and accept Jo shrugged. "Mine dont measure offerings. Dr. Laces address will follow on VThe New Home Missions." up," he aaid. L. G. Dawson will sjieak on "The New "Love, thenl" I questioned. "Tried that too," he answered calmEvangelism." The Doxohigy with a benediction by Dr. Lace will ciurlude ly, "doeent satisfy. I met Rosa twe the program. yean ago at a dance. Shes pretty and aha loved me. We were engaged. MUST COME THROUGH Shes gone back now to the old counThe industrial commission of Utah try to see her folks and tell them all has issued an order directed to the about It and exhibit my picture. lie Then she will American Express coniiany requiring rnlled mockingly, it to obtain insurance for its employes come hack to marry me. I stared surprise. "That ought to under the Utah workmen's compensation act on or before March 10th or make you happy," I said. "It doesnt," lie responded quietly. iay a fine of from fifty to a thousand dollars. Subsequent failure to comply Suddenly Miss Joy came down the with the order will, according to its garden path. She nodded to me and terms, subject the company to a fine went to Js, falling on her knees beof not less than a hundred dollars nor side him. "Id love to do that," she more thsu five thousand. It ia stated aid, "show me how. When ahs had gone, Jo turned hie by members of the cummiwion that earnest gaxe on me. "Fine woman the supreme rourt of Utah held in 1921, that the express eonqiany that, be aaid, "no aham about her." I found them often in tlie garden tois not a common carrier by railroad, and from this it is siyued that any gether, she writing letters and throwemploye injured in Utah may recover ing him a word now and then, or llently observing hia work, while he, under the set. The Utah court decision st that time was based on United In turn, would come to her with a States supreme court decision. How- flower or a leaf for Inspection. Their undemanding seemed perfect, ever, according to the records of the ae waa big Jos manner. fonijMiny, it has not in the thirteen One day I heard him aay to her months since the state decision complied with the terms of theUtah art. bitterly, with a graceful motion toward The order is issued in an effort to ob- a black earthly bed, "I waa raised down In the mud like that. Joy had tain surh compliance immediately. quickly answered, "All growing things are." METERS STOP WASTE 1 waa Just beyond the arbor tree, Both the electrical and water dewith my book, and I engaged partment employes of the city are busy they, in their preoccupation, werefancy uninstalling service meters. Of s(ecial benefit will be the saving of water to aware of my presence. Jo suddenly be effected in many eases by such ac- and masterfully took Joy Meredith la tion. One installation made last Mon- hia arms and ahe received his Usa. I fait It my doty to waylay her. day on a Main street building which "My dear, my dear," I reprimanded, houses several mercantile establishments and a hotel and for which the being old, and friendly enongh with "noth-In- g whole water rate has been something her father to take that liberty, come of this reckless lor cea like twenty dollars a month had so affair. Tour father would never bear many leaky tapa and outlets that the of the union. Ten most give Jo up. first day's run showed a use at the "X will never give him up," she rerate of twenty thousand gallons a day. This would moke a rate of about a hun- plied, "without some better reason dred dollars a month. Fixing up the than Juat hit poverty. Then I told her of the girl told her, leaks will reduce the rate quite likley I hoped to spare her the fubecause under the old flat schedule. This sav- ture that the knowldisappointment of water now wasted ia the really ing of faithlessness to another Jos edge big benefit to accrue from metering must bring. the larger customers. The high school when she called him, admitted Jo, is said to be a gross offender building the truth, admitted also miserably in water wastage. that Boss Klein waa even now upon her way across the ocean. In the exIS COMING DOWN of becoming hia wife, pectation NEW YORK, Feb. 25. Lower prices I will go away, Joy said quietly, for food and slight reductions in cloth"and see the world father has so long ing and fuel combined to bring the cost of living in the United States 2.3 wanted me to see. You must marry Rosa. Jo dear, and you and I will xr rent nearer "normal" during Jan- your never meet again. uary, the national industrial conferSo It happened that the Meredith ence laisrd announced today. At the ieak of (Nwt-winflation it cost the garden was a desolate spot thereI missed the courteous garaverage American family 104.5 )x-- r after. cent more to live than in 1914. On dener, s much as I missed the sweet Joy. She was having a triumphant February 1st, according to the report, time abroad, according to the papers. this hail been reduced to 57.7 per cent alwve the 1914 level. Rents failed to Jo, I did not are for more than a share in the drop which affected food, year. Then he came to me one Evening clothing, fuel and light (trices during through the gates of the Meredith garJanuary, remaining at CO jier cent ov- den. "Blarriedr I asked him. He nodded. er pre-wrates. "And I thought I couldn't go on livONE SENTENCED ing," he said presently, breaking a Mike Manas, convicted by a jury in silence. "Rosa and I are different. the United States district court at Salt No symitby on Iter part, no patience Lake City of violation of the prohibi- upon mine. It's the old trouble; I tion act, was sentenced to sixty days have gotten In on life wrong. I had in the county jail on Saturday last by Just determined to end it all. when Judge Tillman D. Johnson. Pleas of I got this." He took from hia pocket a sheet of not guilty were entered bjr Frank NiIf on my knee. The pt), Louis Dell, James Kjelstrom and paper, spreading John Farres, all of Carbon county, who envelope bore a foreign postmark, the are charged with liquor law violations. last published place of Joys stay. The luttcr cases rume up for hearing Across the paper was written: "AlMarch 14th. ways. I think of you doing your bravest best. For I know you will grow One popular method of committing out of your darkneas Into something suicide is to got in the way of a speed worthy." maniac. That insures Jo smiled at the written words. pn(er and appropriate newspaper mention. Well," he said. I'm growing." If you want to make a fellow hot Town of Man Only, just tell him to keep cool when he is Tlie Asiatic town of Malwatthl. nn between two fires. the borders of Rus.u, Is peopled by The surest way to retain sn ardent men only. Women are forbidden enadmirer i not to marrv Lieu. trance there. aug-geste- d. Jan-uaar- ar ar l forty l,ri.n TO MEET THE MINERS T y, m jr, adv J (front "f ) , (vent) Lt Is Because the nerve energy of the body mis LTfPt Call the Drugless Physician Chiropractor and Have the Ailment Checked. I Frank mat be by not properly functioning , caused or more one placed vertebra impinging will continue nerves. Until corrected you to suffer . Chiropractic Will Correct the Cause; Nature Will Cure You. apany sin DR. J. B. HENDERSON, Chiropractor The Drugless Road to Health rilONEH HOI KS Offttv 27 2 . 8-- 4 iproiH itTuesby jcralman; U,succet P; C pH. Cthsago- First National Hank Building SS Hea. 10-1- -- Itbon eou - SiitLaki . GHTER USE Of SIACK THE E PROBlfH OF Loieer wil under ai I work around railroad shops, were paid time and a half after eight hours. Sundays and holidays will be paid for at the pro rata rate, a minimum of three hours pay being made for two hours work or for less. Monthly rated employes wsges are to be adjusted to eliminate the old time and a half provisions. Ten rules regarding discipline, grievances, discrimination against committeemen and similar matters were remanded to the employes and to the roads for furtlier negotiation. The lioarda new rules supplant the national agreement made during federal control, which haa lieen in effect since January 16, 1920, May Call Conference. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25. Coal ojieraton and miners in the central competitive field probably will be railed into conference by Secretary Davis, acting at the direction of President Harding, to consider renewal of the wage and working rontrart expiring April 1st, it was said today at the White House. The administration, it was added, expects the operaton and miners to negotiate a new contract. It was indicated that the conference that Secretary Davis may roll would meet prior to the expiration of the existing wage agreement. Such a meeting of the operaton and miners, it waa said, would not conflict with a ruling of Federal Judge Anderson at Indianapolis, Ind., which forbade operators and miners to deal with one another. The department of justice, it waa explained, had looked into the matter and felt there would lie no violation of the judges order in case the conference was held. Ia Oiven Award. What ia pretty nearly, if not absolutely, a record in such rases is that of Mrs. Shims Sasaki, widow of Y. Sasaki, formerly employed by the Utah Fuel company at Castle Gate. Sasaki was fatally injured February 12th last. One week later the widow applied for compensation for herself and two children, 3 and 5 years old, and last Tuesday eleven daya after the accident, the commission made the award. This was that the Utah Fuel conqwny should pay in advance compensation for forty weeks, or six hundred and forty dollars, that Mrs. Sasaki and the two children might return to Japan. Subsequent payments are to lie made at six months intervals until sixteen dollars a week for three hundred and twelve weeks lias been paid This ed sjieed, of course, is possible only lieeause of the by its Two Hundred Out DENVER, Colo., Feb. 24. More than two hundred men employed at four mines in Weld rounty struck today against a reduction in wages to the 1917 scale. The mines are the Russell, Duuin, Boulder Valley and Sterling. Oxrators announced they would not attempt to operate at present. The walkout brings the total number of miners out on strike in the Frederick district to approximately five hundred. The Puritan mine, closed on last Monday liy a strike of its three hundred employes, is still idle. Seven other mines in the district bavp announced reductions to go into effect within a few days. Tlie miners at all of the mines have announced their intention of striking. Approximately twelve hundred men are cmploved at the twelve properties Goes Back to Jail. Mo.. Feb. II. TI ,wat. ousted bend KASnTY, xan.lcr of the Kansas coal mim-iunion, was on his wav back to tbe Columbus, Kan., jail to.l!iv H complete hi sentence of six months iii;h.,.,1 when lie refused to ipve a ptacc bond after a conviction tor violation of ihc Kansas industrial Dowit; has fifly-tw- n days vii . I -- iric. IDbond m, wa lv,V!-.-- d tr.;i where he fought for reinstatement but waa defeated, llowat stopped over in this city laat night and addressed a socialist meeting. f:.-- in,!.. nkX. havir Valley ifrom 1 Docket Ia Fixed Up. The docket of the industrial commission of Utah for March and (wrt of April haa been arranged by B. P. Spry, reporter for the commission. Cases of local interest are: March 4th Standard Coal company against Paul Ledakia. March 13th Amanda Wesly against Martin Coal company and General Accident, Fire and Life Insurance conto-ratio- n, death of Frank O. Wesly, her husband. April 3d James Aldred against the Cameron Coal company and Ocean Accident and Guaranty corporation, for injuries sustained by hia son, Fred Al- bitkma ui Intndent eh ah ADVICE TO LADY WORMS Ita danevroua. Ink Fuel Vther Jo CONTRACTS FOR SCHOOLS to a corpora Lata Decision of Much Import the Attorney General. Aa an Fra io ssioner, - Se-g- City-th- Tlie Lilierty Fuel company values its in Carbon county at $200,844. J'ix-rtfhe I nion Pacific Coal company, having leased its mine, places the value or the coal in (ilnce at $29,060. Coal pnqiertieR this week to the Mate hoard rcmrtrag for assessment includes the Carbon Fuel v at $181,215; Peerless at the Morton at $77,490 and the " pber ( onl company at $13,095. Two claims of th Mate treasurer lor benelits where 1,0 dependent were left j f, ((..,!;( v Wle l.M S.,( i:r,!:i V l,v l,,. y pur-(xis- eom-paii.- twe i Dont foaaip. buildings commithe Utah state suierintendcat of public instruction haa the authority to require plans and specifications for public school structures which will permit comjietitive bidding in all lines of dred. work. This opinion ia given to Dr. C. I. April 22d State treasurer against Jensen, state superintendent of public Utah Fuel company, for death of Har- instruction, by Attorney General Cluff ry Mosenko. to clear up a perplexing question that ind arisen. Prior to the session of tbs Large Contribution. last legislature there existed a state PITTSBURG, Kan., Feb. 25. The school buildings commission which unKansas miners union contributed ten der a contract ruling from the attorthousand dollars for the establishment ney general hud no (lower to disipof the Oklahoma Leader by action of of plans and specifications fur the district convention held in Kansas Erove except under certain condCity two years ago, when Alexander itions. This led to the architects puII. Iiowat was in control. Later the tting in the contract the names of cedistrict, according to the financial rtain parties to furnish specialities such statement, made a loan of a thousand as the heating plant or ventilating syto the paper. Oscar Ameringer of the stem, and if this contract were allows! staff of the Leader has addressed sev- to pass by the local school board thri eral meetnngs of miners in behalf of the architect virtually awarded part of Iiowat in the mining field during the the contract to certain parties. It is last two months. the general intent of the new law enarted by the last legislature to enHuge Rock Goes. courage competitive bidding in the Feb. 25. A large rock which best possible construction at the lesfl MOAB, lay oq a hillside directly above the u eost, the attorney general explains Hi echoolhonae hu finally been re- declares the school boards should inmoved. In the last two years several sist on sjieeifications which will percontractors entered into agreements mit the advertisement for sealed prowith the board to remove the danger- posals to allow competitive bidding in ous boulder, but each time they, gave all lines. If the school boards neglect it up after viewing the proposition. to do this the state superintendent hu Felix, Tom and Otho Murpny of Moab the right to reject the plans and specthen contracted to remove the rock and ifications. succeeded in doing so by erecting a stone wall just below it and removing REPAIRS COMING it piecemeal. It is estimated that the MOAB, Feb. 25. The Grand county rock weighed two hundred and fifty commissioners after conferring vim tons. Emery have 'decided to repair tbs bridge at Green River. Grand will IDecrease In January. mpropriate eleven hundred dollars in iw WASHINGTON, D. C Feb. 27.--Fa ditmn to three thousand five hundred tali ties at coal mines during Janu- dollars already advanced. This money ary declined about 20 per cent from comes out of the state fund for the January a year ago, according to an enrrent year and is disbursed by tbs announcement today by the bureau of road rommisKion. When the bids of the contractors for this work were oiend mines The total last month waa some time ngo the lowest bid was i hundred and forty-si-x huna against dred and ninety-seve- n last year. Bused excess of twelve thousand dollars. The on an estimated coal production of commissioners of Emery will appro43,955,000 tons last month, the death priate sufficient additional funds to rate waa 3.32 jier million tons mined, insure the rojiair of the bridge before compnred with 4.13 for January 1921. the high water season. BIG FIGURES, THESE AROUND THE COAL CAMPS OF Tentative plans CARBON DISTRICT a $25,000,000 improvements program for the Denver J. E. Iettit, mine suierintendent at and Rio Grande Western and the WestHemer, was in Price Tuesday. The ern Pacific railroads was tlie object of camp is working two days a week on a conference of operating officials of the average. Kith roads held recently in San FranTom Nichols of Priee is now on cisco, Cola. J. IL Young from Denver, the staff of the Lion Coal company at Colo., president of tlie former rood, Cameron as a ieml officer. lie took and A. K. Baldwin of New York the job permanently the first of this president of the Denver and Bio week. Grande Western, holding company for the two roads, and the $50,000,000 col Ltali Fuel company are beds owned by them in Carbon county, all working five and sixprojxrties daya a week their Alw all of those in Spring Canyon and passed through Utah en route to conthe Kinney up at Scofield. Kenilworth respective headquarters from the ference last week. ditto. iT'-tc-- ' Fuel ii tnpanyby its or loperati taeron. ah (Continued From Page Bis.) of the company as represented a' tomey, Ferdinand Erickson. Denver et 1 i ia cha: fief es e The most exasperating part of an m come tax schedule is the paragraph which provides for the outgo. That gnml printing. The Sun. I nited States Fuel company and Moodl.iwn Cupper Mining company-Th- e ir-- s v - t nrtlii-- :it Tin- Jliaw.-iilia- . -- n, t i t : I the C01 lest Bias Castle Ink Ha Innon 1 ftnitee liter hed by pining Urgei It lest. Libert isret bad i'tk wit! Iile posi (its vice witl rat Sal sident I Prior inssis fury of ousl I. Lew, Vie. W cor (twin, ime ibi It ,J- Ci tyin - pres do itta OVA1 MUSI ilkins Uni plied I mr of the idea has Mist si I n met At, USI Kai 'mstii lie 0 rrpar knted utbi urs ?recr sown 'flics ireni pres lice ark avc riNij h:t wi. t-r- i " 1i ii iqsst 4 rl 'sfi i I If v 1 Tice 1 eunii I hr l 1. U -- th fuel company to pay seven hundred and fifty dollars into the stale treasury as a result of the death of Andre fa ure, who du-- an i: r, u!t of injarii' siifliTi-iI in the wbili v V When man industrial commission ordered l i the at the inv place t big co i h e o( upsny I till vert state. |