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Show ML STRIKF Only a Compromise Can Prevent Great Labor Disturbance New York, March 16. A suspension suspen-sion of work of 180.000 minors in tho anthracite coal region on April 1 can bo prevented only by compromise, compro-mise, but nejther tho 'coal operators nor tho miners gave the slightest Indication In-dication today of yielding from their positions f The minors have declined to modify thoir demands for a twenty per cent Increase in wages, an eight-hour working day, recognition of the union un-ion and other conditons. The operators oper-ators made no counter proposal. Members Mem-bers of the anthracite miners' committee com-mittee conferred today on a statement state-ment given out by th operators that it was impossible to advance wages unless thoy could In some manner realize from the sale of coal produced, pro-duced, a sum equal to the Incrcaso of wages. Should neither side retreat from its present position, the mine workers In tho hard coal region, on the expiration ex-piration of tho present working agreement on March 31, will lay down their tools and suspend work until an agreement Is reached. It Is within with-in the power of the policy committee at their meeting March 25 in Cleveland Cleve-land to cal a strlko in both the hard and soft coal regions, should the bituminous men and their employes fail to reach an agreement nt the Cleveland conference next Wednesday. |