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Show OAL STRIKE SEEMS CERTAIN jOO.000 Worker WHi Be In Line When Final Walk Out I CalUd IudlnnupollR, Ind. Officers of the United Mine Workers saw little chance Monday of averting u strike veto among tho 000,000 union coal miners as ii weapon to enforce their wuge s.'iile demands. Mine owners arc expeelod to take a more determined stand than ever 711. nut negotiating un Intcrostute wuge ngreoment In vlow for tlie six-hour luy and five-day week jrallcy formulated formu-lated at tho miners' convention. It wns learned tho operators were at tho point of entering n conference an the basis of the scale committee's recommendations, wlrfch called for an olght-hour day underground anil retention re-tention of tho prosent bnelu wuge among othor things. Hut tho convention' action In re-Jectng re-Jectng the elghMiour day proposal left nn air of uncertainty us to what tho outcomu wilt be. President John U I A' wis was drafting draft-ing a second Invitation usklng the operators to incur union represeuta-tlveft represeuta-tlveft hofore tho contract explros al midnight, March .Ti. He says their refusal thus far violates a provision of the agreement ilgned In 11)10. |