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Show MURRAY MAKES PEACE PROFFER Mlixfrs Will Declare Strike Off If Congress Will Apply Wage Demand New York. The coat miners will decloro the strike off and roturn to work, pending nootlatlona of a now ngrooment, if congress will pasn n Joint resolution or bill applying the bituminous coal commission's award of 1020 to all soft coal operations, Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mlno Workers of America, declared de-clared nt n debate on the coal strike Thursday. Another requirement for tho end of the difficulty, ho said, would be n recommendation to Prrsldent Uurdlng to call a national conference of tho representatives of all operators nnd mlno workers to negotiate a new agreement. lie also recommended as n permanent perman-ent policy for regulating production and stabilizing the industry the appointment ap-pointment of "a representative, technical tech-nical and official comlsslon rhnrged with the duty of collecting und analyzing an-alyzing all, tho facts and with making sound nnd appropriate constructive rocommendations." The subject debuted wus, "What Llos Unci; of the Coal Strlko und What Lies Ahead?" Mr. Murray presented tho miners' side of the controversy md Thomas H. Watklns, prosldent of the Pennsylvania Coal and 'oke Company, Com-pany, tho operators' viewpoint. The public's nttltudo was Interpreted by Harry A. (Jarfleld. president of Williams Wil-liams college, who wns nnt'onnl coal administrator undor former President Wilson, nnd by Robert W. Itruer. director di-rector of the bureau of Industrial research. re-search. Mr. Murray's suggestions were offered of-fered as n solution of the problem of tho future In bituminous coal mining. |
