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Show END 10 BIG GOAL SMEW HAND PARLEY IS AGREED UPON WHICH MAY RESULT IN A SETTLE. MENT OF DIFFERENCES. President Wilson Proposes Plan Looking Look-ing to Speedy Termination of Strike Situation and Adjustment of Entire Controversy. Washington. Attorney Genewil rainier rai-nier announced after midnight Saturday Satur-day that an agreement: had been readier! between government officials and John L. Lewis, acting president, and William Green, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, under which a proposal for termination of the coal strike wrll be submitted to a meeting of tho executive committee of the mine workers at Indianapolis. The proposal was' made by President Wilson "looking to a speedly termination termi-nation of the strike situation and adjustment ad-justment of the entire controversy," Attorney General Palmer says. Lewis and Green will urge acceptance of the proposal. The announcement came as a complete com-plete surprise, as government officials had not made known the fact that the union leaders had been called into conference or that new proposals were under consideration. The presence of Lewis and Green in the city was rumored ru-mored during the day, but could not he confirm pit The fact that Mr. Palmer talked with President Wilson in the course of the day on the coal situation was known, but no intimation of the nature of the conference was obtainable either from Mr. Palmer, prior to his announcement, announce-ment, or at the White House. When the announcement was made, officials would not comment as to the nature of the proposals to be sub mitted at -Indianapolis. - The text of the statement, as well as the general attitude of government officials, indicated in-dicated clearly, however, that acceptance accept-ance by the miners was anticipated. The announcement was the more of a surprise because of tho fact that earlier in the night Dr. Garfield, fuel administrator, had declared emphatically emphatic-ally there would be no compromise in the coal strike situation. He added that while he was in office as fuel administrator ad-ministrator no increase in the price of coal to consumers would be permitted to provide for increased pay for the miners. If the 14 per cent pay advance ad-vance suggested by the government was exceeded, he said, it would have to be the expense of the mine operators, opera-tors, to be taken from their profits. |
