Show A N A D I 1 A all RE 10 M mitchell itchell orders th the miners back to their work vancouver B C april 19 ally all tho the coal mines in eastern british columbia and alberta are closed closed it was rumored this thia morning that president mitchell of the united mine line workers of america had instructed ted district president sherman to ask the men to resume work but sherman denied this then S S lindsay dananer of the crow nest coal company gave out a copy of a dispatch chehad received from mitchell Mit cheU who said definitely that he lie had bad ordered sherman to get the mon back to work the men havo haye quit work hut but not definitely gone on a strike so that they in may ay not bo be prosecuted under a new dominion government law sherman and patterson his assistant both state that the men are pressing them to issue a strike order no doubt on account of the ambiguous position they occupy thus quitting work without any definite there Is much about the action of quitting work without calling a strike secretly ordered and all falling into line being a strategic move to evade violation of the clause of 0 the act sherman says ys he will not pay strike allowances because he can get around that by paying a working allowance it looks as though the operators had broken the law in posting noticed of a reduction pending pen dInK the dispute the cana dlan than pacific railroad at fernie has only a hundred and ninety tons of coal on hand and that brought in from frank which worked yesterday sherman flatly contradicts the statement that he Is trying to form an independent canadian miners union but under the control of the american association he says the trend of miners opinion la Is that way but no definite action has been taken the supply of slack for the coke ovens will not likely last longer than today and the supply for the smelters shelters sm elters will drop off even it if the canadian pacific railway lias bils enough coal to warrant the mor ing of it which Is doubtful the canadian pacific railway has is sued notice that none but p perishable ris hablo freight will be handled in kootenay Koo tenal until the situation Is relieved the winnipeg board of trade today i passed a resolution advocating the bringing in of cheap chinese labor to t take taue the places of the men who have I 1 left about men have thrown down their tools |