Show f FACTIONS MAKE POSITIONS CLEAR GlEAR Operators and Miners Declare g fi Wj 1 Wf c. r r th the e P Publics Publics- U bl 10 4 r I Ir BIG COAL STOCK ON HAND CUll Can Sell I I his for fm lit 1 ice H Its his Value If N Xo Xu Su ii U ns eat IIii cited s. March ir AClei After entire aft afternoon in making nn fin 11 spent SIlent dramatic speeches threats bluffs anti and entreaties th the Joint conference of or bi bituminous hi- hi tu miners and ana operators adjourned adjourned ad ad- at i 30 this evening to meet moot again at al 0 9 I o'clock tomorrow A vote voLe should be reached ll by tomorrow night One of or the purposes of or the meeting this afternoon was wa to give both skies sides Ilesa a chance to make mak their position clear cleal before the public There was not a n speech made malic but It referred to the final final- decision of the American public nubIle Doth Both sides Siles 1 at last Int seeni cem to realize that J public opinion is going to settle this strike e. e And AntI both sides admitted In their speeches that If IC there Is a a. strike It Il wont won't last lon longer er th that t sixty days because because be be- cause the public would not tolerate it r J to 10 Gout Gain The operators figured tonight that thathy by hy a suspension of or sixty days they had everything to lo gain am and nothing to lose All operators have an enormous stock of coal on hand ut at the mines mimics due to the mind win winter tel just jut passed They want to 8 sell this at a big advance shut down sixty They can allord to sto stay star days doys sell th their h stock of coal for fOI twice what they would III g get t were there no strike Imminent or 01 in progress tOil and at atthe atthe atthe the end nd of oC that time say s-ay to th the miners that th they will accept th their I wage vage scale cal of 5 55 55 per 1101 cent advance |