Show I COAL STRIKE LOOMS Lewis Pledges Miners to Fight 4 to Finish in Fall SCRANTON Pa July Up It-Up- 1 W A AJohn John L L. Lewis International miners miners' min min- miners miners' miners miners' ers' ers president addressing the an an- anthracite anthracite anthracite trl district ecale scale convention eOn Tuesday warned the bituminous coal cost Industry to 10 continuo continue what he called call d its Ita repudiation of or the tho ex existing ex- ex Ig o Jacksonville Ck agreement c at Igo r peril of a great e national strike e. e After ACter pledging a I. finish fight tight n In n tho the coming negotiations with hard coal oal operators to renew tho the contract expiring August 31 Mr Ir Lewis denounced the infamous conspiracy r to break the miners miners' union which ho he said was under way In bituminous coal fields DOUBLE fiD STA He contrasted the private and business lu morals of or men like John JohnD D D. Rockefeller Jr Secretary Mel Mel- Mellon Mellon lon and Charles M H. Schwab who hr he h said paid had failed tailed to use URe their th lr Influence as stockholders In large soft coal r companies a to prevent ent I p of the present e pact p Enumerating further respects In which h hs he believed tho Jacksonville contract had been deliberately J Impaired Mr Lewis said saidI I 1 am calling g. g the tho e attention t n ot ot of I I and of the American people today to to this fact tact I have ha cited tho the In Instances in- in ins ino Instances I stances s and I 1 have named the nt ea names of o the e men responsible s s le for I this action If Ie this situation con con- continues con I continues It may be bo later on to authorize a national shut shut- shutdown shutdown shutdown down of or tho the mines of ot this country while the th government and the coal operator sand the representatives of or the mine workers discuss whether v the Jacksonville agree agree- agreement agreement ment is ix going to be carried out Mr L Lewis wl later explained ref ref- references references references to a 1 shutdown applied only to the soft eort coal fields UNION U BLOB BLO Mr Lewis asserted certain soft sort coal companies had been joined with the certain c soft coal con con- consuming consuming suming railroads to shuttle the year three Jacksonville agreement from the outset Both he said sought to demor demor- demoralize alize and pauperize the union du- du as a means of or destroying the tho miners miners' union Mr Lewis singled out as two t ol ot the he companies which had practically practically repudiated the contract the Consolidated Coal company In tn which he said Mr Rockefeller was wasa a 1 stockholder and the Pittsburg Coal oal company In which ho he sail said I Secretary Mellon was heavily In Interested In- In Interested In In thirty-five thirty years ean he said the United Mine Workers have never violated a a. wage wase agreement or repudiated one In any degree Yet Tet here come some of ot the great great- greatest greatest est business men In the land to join oln In an Infamous conspiracy cy to wreck that organization by b rho ho duly executed three three- year three car agree agree- agreement agreement ment no longer exists Let Ut me say to the anthracite operators and to the American public now that the anthracite nine mine workers will not accept a wage reduction of 17 or 20 0 per percent percent percent cent nor of ot any other per cent Asserting reports that ten mil mil- milIon million lion Ion tons of or anthracite were w re avail avail- available available able ble for tor consumption September Sept a were vere misleading Mr Ir Lewis L said saia only tenth one of this could be turned In stove or furnace |