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Show INSIST ON LOWER SCALE OF WAGES lllinolt Mine Owner $ Serve Ultimatum on Ur.icnt. An ulilutHtum tliut Illinois coal operators op-erators will uot negotiate with union olflcluls for settlement of wage-scale differences resulting from expiration of the three-year Jacksonville agreement agree-ment March 31, except to reduce production pro-duction cost was authorized hy ulioiit 80 members of the Illinois ('mil Operators' Op-erators' aNSoclation. The message was transmitted hy Wee Miller,- president of th sssoclu-tlnn, sssoclu-tlnn, to Hurry r'ltihwick, president of the Illinois Mine Workers' union. Miller Mil-ler wua Instructed by the attending operators , to notify the union that they would not negotiate on any other basis than reduction of wages or contract con-tract changes which would permit cheaper production. |