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Show Zero Weather Bringing Hardships 1 While PeopleWait for Miners5 I Wage Dispute To Be Settled I j All A ides of Government Fail to Settle Strike Granting of Fourteen Per Cent Increase to Coal Miners and No Change in Price of Coal to Consumers Brings Outcry 2 From Both Miners and Operators Real Winter Weather W Bringing Country Face to Face With Emptying Bins. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. Mine operators op-erators of the United States definitely Cd today to accept Fuel Admin. s trator Garfield's proposal for settle-" settle-" 0f the coal strike. An over--helming majority of operators were satisfied with the offer of a fourteen r cent increase in -vages to the men Without any consequent increase in he price of coal. I WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 All agencies agen-cies of th government have failed bo (aVto BOlve the bituminous coal min ?' wage tangle :.n;! from the outlook rt'riv todaj the situation was as far from adjustment as it was when the tf jobations began. The last move was made by Fuel 'Administrator Garfield who last night told the miner.- and operators of a gen 1 (ruuent plan of settling the dispute bj ETantinc the miners a fourteen per rer.t increase in wages with the emphatic em-phatic stipulation that there would be do increase in the price of coal to the public This brought an outcry from both th? miners and operators The miners declared they would not pecept the 11 per cent increase and that under such i plan the men would not return to xork. The operators protested that the 14 ' per cent increase without an increase ' in the price of coal would force some i oi the larger companies out of busi ness and declared they were ready to renew the negotiations. .More parleys were held toda in an j effort to arrive at some solution. COUNTRY FACING HARDSHIPS. CHICAGO, Nov. 27. Already facing, fac-ing, or in the grasp of, a coal shortage. I much of the country today was con- fronted with the prospec t of taxing ! further stc-adlly emptying fuel bins as real winter weather drove down i autumn temperatures that had prevailed pre-vailed for se eral das. Efforts of I the government to bring about an 'agreement between the miners' representatives rep-resentatives and operators at Washington Washing-ton that might lead to resumption of production in the bituminous coal mines held out littlo hope. Miners generally wore agreed there would be littlo work done under the offer of Fuel Administrator Garfield of a 14 'per cent wage increase and protection for those miners who cared to return! to work. At the mines themselves the past 24 J hours brought no development of notel as the national Bt rike lengthened out to i 27 days. |