Show I M A A IL JL AIDS RUHR MINERS IN DEMANDS Men Should Receive Wage Advances FOOD FOR FIGHT Radical Threat May Mean More Trouble for French ESSEN May BY 21 21 By The Tir As- As As Associated Press Seven Seven coal mines s I In the Dortmund district dl have baro bce I compelled to shut do down n because I of tho the communist agitation for tor lOt hIgher wages It Is estimated that j miners are arc striking and 10 I boo others ore are ar being I front working because of or the trou- trou trouble trouble ble Two of ot the mines affected aro are I Stinnes properties one Is a tian I Sian state mine and the remainder bel belong on to small mall companes At a meeting of communIsts communIsts communists in Dortmund last night speak- speak I era declared the communist con organ- organ 1 was WIlS prepared to fight to tt 0 a finish In the struggle for tor tse t 1 wage wages wager They J that al- al althou I thou thou- tie the OTe i ted lid the German cerman Inell were wera- I sp rr ironey ony like water In pas pas- I sive resistance to the Frenc French th they y had refused the mens men's d I for tor wages to meet the re- re recent reent re recent cent ent rise in food prices It was nas stated at the tir m that the communists had on hand I pounds of ot for distribution among the strikers and th thit Moscow hal promised further as n de I 1 IOn On Moscow Initiative it Va was 01 da he- he clued two of or food hil already been sen sent to th the Ruhr from Petrograd by way of oC omen Bremen In fact of the g a agitation In the Bochum ind and 1 1 ls l's ils il's the trade unions llor hav have Isue issued an a appeal peal to their members member that t they y disregard the communists communist ef- ef efforts ef efforts r forts to create tm tro ible urging tire members to remain calm caIro sod id 1 not participate In the strike Th The communist members declare ill the strikers are not communists Il d they predict that tho the strike III e tie up all the mines mh's irs 1 these two districts which Co Contain n miners in neutral quarters this com corn communistic communistic agitation I 1 li regarded as likely to becom a serious lA-calto lA to the tho r regions |