Show I I I KE IS i i j jON ON IN fULL I J fORCE I 2 Coal Miners Contend for fora a Certified Agreement With f r Companies I i V iV Winnipeg April 3 Dispatches today toda 1 from room the coal barons of or Alberta Albella and British Columbia state that with the tho I exception of tho the mines operated by br bythe f i the th Crows Nest Pass Pasil Coal ConI company I I nil all tho the miners employed in tho the Leth Lethbridge bridge Bankhead Maple Leaf af Pass burg bm g Hill Hili Crest Lille and amid Coleman mines aro are on strike The Tho miners aro are quiet t but the strike Is In full force The Time strikers are arc of tIme the opinion that the supply of oC coal Is short and that the time operators may come conic to an agree agreement agreement I ment mont signed b by the Crows Nest Pass Coal company compan The operators arguo that as the time summer season Is at hand han hantho tho tIme demand for coal will not be so great The men at a camps camis say y they j will take no notice of or the tIme law lawns lawas lawas as ns no act of oC parliament can compel compol thorn them to work without an agreement Lethbridge will bo be hard hit if the tha strike continues long Places team plows plow are used to break tho the ground use a car cur of coal a week and Md will soon Hoon be IJ out omit of business V I Brick and anti terra cotta works and aDd other othor large firms have havo about 30 days supply on hand Canadian Cn Pacific road has coal stored up at al different places to U last for months mouths |