Show t HOPE TO AVERT j i GOAL STRIKE I Intervention of Roosevelt May Bring Peace on Some Basis I HEATED SESSIONS CERTAIN on 2 With Uh J 4 In Separate Meetings Outcome of or if Joint COli Conference hazy Ha Ind la nap oils Ind March U 12 12 first discussion of or the tiso entire coal con coa mining minIng min ruin ing lag situation by nn any of or our people willo will o occur Wednesday Wednes ny morn morning In at 10 o'clock o o'clock o 0 clock in tho the national executive board boardroom boardroom boardroom room here hele sol said President John Mitchell of or the tho United Mine Workers this evening Tile Tito executive board ha had been called to meet at that time lime anyway and probably the attitude of or the operators operators oper oper- toward our propositions will then come in ill for Cor discussion Mr Mi Mitchell returned from Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia this afternoon and toJ told In de detail tie tie- tan tail of or the miners miners' affairs In refer refer- once ence to lo the attitude of or the anthracite he said According to the operators and ana I from their statements It U looks 1001 8 very I much like th they y anticipate a strike Take Up Counter I I 1 have hav today ton called a meeting of or orthe the thirty six members of or the tho special committee appointed by bythe the Shamokin Shamo- Shamo Shamokin kin convention to meet here with me meAn meon meon on An the tho lath l th The ThA counter proposition of or 01 the operators will then be e t taken ken u ur up and n discussed The Thc outcome cannot be bc told lold It will depend very much orthe on or the action of ot the thEl committee what reply reply re re- re- re pi ply will be bc mn made o The action of or the anthracite operators operators opera opera- tors torR is apt to be cor confused with the lIst forthcoming meeting lIns of bituminous operator and amid here next Mon Mon- day Only Insofar as the he action of the UK bituminous operators Is concerned at their theft Interstate conference next week Is there any uny connection et between weon the forthcoming Interstate con conference ference and antl the present t situation n Time The anthracite miners miner's delegates however will be present Thursday atthe atthe at nt the opening of f the tho United Mine Workers Workers' Work Work- ers ers' special convention and anel the anthracite cite situation will be Cull fully discussed dt at that time I ioIa r Turn furn It I t Down II I Authoritative word vord of the plan ol oC procedure will be then announced b bj y the minors whether tho they will or 01 will wll not ucc accept pl the counter proposition ol 01 ot the operators The TI prevailing chanc- chanc es Cs ate are that thal the tho counter proposition L will VIII be c promptly turned tIo-ii tIo Then Ihen If IC President Roosevelt intercedes inter Inter- codes cedes at nil all before negotiations ar arc RT rol broken on 2 oft olt he hc will throw his into the broach breach nn and try to prevent proven C Continued 11 on un Pa Pae lige e Nine In HOPE TO AVERT BIG COAL GOAL S STRIKE RIKE V Continued from Crom roan Page lage One either a walkout or a lockout of th tine the proposed Intervention tion ton b by the t In 11 the tIne anthracite anthracite cite I. I situation lla lon Mr r. r Mitchell M Ic said lI President nOM Roosevelt will U not 11 bo lie approached ap 1 b by the miners a again ln until after the conning coining m meeting of or tine the thir six ty-six members of or the tho special committee commit tee teo that was appointed b by the tho Sham- Sham convention The flie call cal to the these e members r to meet with me on tho the was sent fent out today lo ay It I Is 13 generally Kenerly understood that the anthracite miners did not expect anything any amy thing lining thins like hika Ik a formal acceptance of oC their propositions submitted to the operators tiller oper aloes ator but they certainly did clel not nol ox- ox ex expect x- x such mi nun unequivocal ocal denial of or ore e every ery ry demand Denial Adds eJI to 10 Importance The Thc anthracite operators operators' dental denial of or the thc propositions submitted to them by br the time miners miner adds greatly to the Importance Im Inn- of the miners rs' rs special meetIng meeting meet meet- Ing which will wU con convene Thursday and aund also to t tho the international board mr meetIng meet meet- eJI- eJI Ing Wednesday Tine The convention will wi have hav a meeting before the bituminous meeting for fot which It ItUS was US ostensibly called en caled I I ed It I will wi bo be 1 confronted with wih tho the alternative alter alter- nl alternative r- r native of r repealing tIne the Ryan Han r resolution tion ton or nr forcing till all ni suspension fu pen lon of minIng mining min min- ing April 1 1 for It Is now iW evident ent that I 1 the tine anthracite operators operators' refusal to 10 treat with tine the union has made It I practically rc- rc Impossible to obtain an nn agreement agree agree- ment anent In all aJ districts in inn the two and an a ahai half hai weeks of March that now remain The rhe Ryan nyan resolution declares that no contracts shall haJ be signed In any district until obtain agree ments It I Is known that If it It I I is proposed proposed pro pro- posed to repeal the tine Ryan resolution even though the tho repeal be offered aNa as aN asa asa a motion moton by Ryan Han himself himsel and anc seconded ded deti b by the tine one who seconded the Ryan Han resolution originally and I Is then them nih- nih ad advocated by hI Mitchell there will vill wU be JJ a C considerable vote against the V Outcome Will ill I Bt Be hazy Hn Inzy There Thero i is every evry Indication that both hoth bothof of or tine tho th special cOIt conventions wll wll k have mayo heated sessions and anul con considerable factional fac tao tonal trouble and anal aHl t that mat even after both operators and anel miners rs havo reached sonic somo wm agreement among themselves the tho outcome of or joint conference will wi le c haz hazy With itin Wih President Roosevelt the Unit Unit- etl d States Steel corporation and anti finan- finan lal nail and Industrial Influences taking a hand hanc In the tho final meetings the tine chances nances are that peace on cnn some kind of basis basi will win come conic out ont of or the meetings If I f peace does come It will wi be at once a compromise Iso |