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Show STILL HOPE FOR SETTLEMENT. Government Working for Mediation and Expects Early Agreement. Washington. The government is hopeful of bringing the bituminous coal strike to a speedy termination and is aiding negotiations which may lead the miners' leaders to accept President Presi-dent Wilson's proposal for the appointment appoint-ment of a commission to settle the dispute between the miners and operators. opera-tors. In such a consummation the government govern-ment is declared to have the co-operation of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Warren S. Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Kngineers. |