| Show Soft Coal Industry May MayBe MayBe Be Reorganized as Result Of Operator Miner Scrap N No Danger of Fuel Famine If Men Should Walk Out March 31 60 Pet Per Cent of Soft Coat Coal Now Conics From union Nonunion Mines D ny 11 X COLl I I l or o C 1211 1st by b C reas A 1 Wa Feb 19 1 Out or orthe othe the coil coal wage wate C conference began at there Is likely to come Do ot oC the toll coil coal In- In ot of the th United Stales with results of ot the t to consumer 61 f Cue fuel I as a well as a to ow owner and th their lr Strike talk If Is in 11 the tir air aDl prophet are a will come In th the bituminous mines when the pres nt contract expire March 31 lh o ds are against urn lurn 0 although It may be expect expect- M that l talk lk will blow both hot ho nil cold ol In the n next t few tew week Th fact Is I that Ihu the operators operator In union fields speaking ally Iy Ate In a II poor poof l position to en- en engage gage In A costly battle batti And on 01 the othet han hand 1 the United Mine ers of America hoa ha to 1 desIre a Union mines mine In three year U that the t sent has h been In effect los l and by b liD token union miners had their Income reduced because or lack of ot steady employment It ItIs Is not Dot true HUo that entire result r can be b charted charged to the Jacksonville of BH the situation finds the tho con r In a position petition of ot reI e aU ease case The one who plays the role of ot the tir Innocent by- by bystander stander with the tho characteristic typical of ot that part has less les at t flake than ordinarily Is the At the same ai e lime a a strike In the undoubtedly lead to advancing ad prices tor all coal which might la In a panic market with con con- cost to the tho public Or 01 It Is the matter maller ot oC supply fo that the er s l-s little to concern himself about In other word while coal lie be dear deU there would be coal t to be had The Th clement of o therefore Is removed from the situation as a It affects consumer alone That there would be hardship for miners and oper In the union unton fields there can carbe be no q question and in Ibe th of oC this tact fact tests rota the hope ot those who feel teel confident there will willbe be no coal this year tock Stock ot oC coal In the hands bands oC on January 1 were larg- larg larger er than On the tame date of tit any since the war with the tho ex- ex ex exception of ot 1924 In the face tace ot cu y consumption for tor pUr and consumption for household uses u plus abnor- abnor abnormally abnor mally large larre exports stocks of oC coal Increased tons October 1 and January 1 I xo More than 00 GO per cent ot oC all the coal n now w being belne produced the United Slates Slate comes come from non non- nonunion union non union mine At the th peak of ot Iro pro production du this winter only 40 per oC o this sort ott cool coal came roni Union mines TillS This w was Ih a period perio ot of advancing price when the union mines mine were encouraged In operations operation At the th peak union non non- produced ced ton a In a week In contrast to It may b br recalled that In the union was at the height hel Of Its power and in which year eu a i was called union non pro pro- production was wa only tons a i week bureau of studY ludy by the how that In 1925 1926 1602 sort cool mines producing toM in a year und men had wage Ith the union t that at mine producIng Ing tons ton a year ond employing men m n 1 no contract with Ith the th union and that from the th beginning to the end endo oC that year ear mines producing tons ton and employing 28 men chan changed td their policy from union to union non What the union n Is is ts I hn o which will not less than the present pre ent have n boell o al outset th-outset o a scale agreement by whit whit-h h they will pay y lo 10 per cent more thAn the of oC the non union field of West Virginia and Kentuck Kentucky As a matter of taCt fact to the protection ot oC rates to tho principal markets market the th op in h tile th central field tl flourish on wage cale 10 pet pel cent higher than that ot o more tant What the tho unIon Is that union non o would reduce their wages and n therefore the scale cale of the union mines mine would al- al ly Iy under uch arrangeMents arran ST IJ IS Stabilization ot or the th tort soft In du try Is I It outstanding need Both op operators and miners miner recognize tAct E who ho havi hll this situation fot som years year belle believe that the time la Is now rip for tor II R move toward to stabilisation by changing InS In conditions 1 hll thus thu working conditions condition BO o as to take ad of ot nil all economies possible In pro pro- production They believe this Ira era I at hand whether It L be by amicable agreement workers their or by Itt ement reached only after the th and cost of or a a strike |
