Show STING TAKEN fROM COAL I STRIKE TALK AlKI T Hard Coal Miners Miners Say Their Branch Not Included I LONDON LONION ul July 23 A general rl strike of or ni nil all British I union n coal on miners will still I commence COI- COI com mence July Jul SI 3 t I the tho th miners o e decided dc nt at lt n a 1 meet meet- meetIng lug Ing In hero tonight ht ATLANTIC IC CITY X N. J. J July Jul 23 Much DPI A Much uch of oC the sting appear- appear od nd drawn today from Crom the general coal strike threat t mado made to the government Io on ott Tuesday by Van VanA A A. chief union organizer of West Virginia Hard coal miners were said to serious have exploded danger on ce chances when eth they of said 3 any yesterday that their thell branch brInch ot of the Industry was not to be count- count counted countI Id IdT ed In ne on 0 any strike 8 plans The T miners 1 said definitely d I IY they were one with the wih operators operator operator In Inthe inthe the understanding that hard coal I and soft soC coal must be kept p sep orated until InU a a. n new nw rw agreement Ii is made to replace the tho one expiring ex In August I After September 1 1 the miners will continue their work ork wi regard regard- rf regardless less of oC whether a new ne contract Is signed by that time and agree e ag to submit their differences to a board of oC arbitration In the terms of the offer this would be se se- se by b President Coolidge If It the litigants could nut nat t agree on ageo them themselves LOMOX SITUATION LONDON ODON r July JUI 23 2 P Only Only nine days da remain before beCore tho ex ex- expiration of the present agreement nt In lii the employment of oC coal fields and there thele Is Increasing anxiety aJ as a each ach day da slips by without a settle settle- settlement ment of or the differences between n the miners miner and mine owners con con- a new agreement Th The Tho miners are arc firm In their refusal to meet tho the owners unless tho the latter later withdraw their proposals for fol a new agreement and th tha tn owners are ale equally Insistent that they will wl not withdraw the pro pro- proposals if I the word wor withdraw Ii is isto to be Interpreted as abandon Each day the owners have asked ak ask ash ed d tho miners miners' federation leaders to tl meet them with wih a view to arriving ar or riving rising at a definition of oC the t he word withdraw as a preliminary to negotiations but the federation has soot not seen Its Is way clear to move from Its position SUPPORT The fhe miners arc are receiving n sym sym- sympathetic sympathetic pathetic pathetic support front from labor gen gen- generally Gen Gen- and the belief belEC that will wili wil be a stoppage of or work In the tie mines seems scents for the tho moment In bo- bo n- n creasing Trade rade union tinion members of oC the tho house of oC commons last night sent a 0 resolution to tb A. A J. J Cook Cool of oC the miners' miners federation federa federa- tion protesting against the iho mine owners owners' degrading attempt to o force Corce the miners to abject slav slat cry ery 1 |