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Show MINERS URGED TO . MINE MM COAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Plans for conducting an extensive campaign to increase bituminous coal production were announced today by the fuel administration. ad-ministration. "In each production district dis-trict a production, manager wpuld bo appointed while at each mine a committee com-mittee of six three representing mine workers and three tho operators would be selected to stimulate patriotism, patrio-tism, and arrange meetings at which the need for increased production as a means of winning the war will be explained. ex-plained. "You mine workers arc like a great reserve army which shoulders the burden of a long campaign In which there can bo no lot-up or the whole offensive plan will crumble and collapse," col-lapse," said James B. Nesle, director of production, in a letter to the local unions, announcing the plan. "Not a man of you would flinch if he were in France and the order came to advance in the face nf the onemy's machine guns. In the samo way I am sure you will not falter when you realize rea-lize how great the need is for your best efforts at honje." n1 |