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Show Gompers Attempting to Settle Strike I Troops On Way to Utah Coal Fields From Camp Kearny I WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Attorney-Genera! Palmer today informed coal miners who protested against the strike injunction that the government stood ready "to do everything in its power to facilitate an inquiry into the merits of the controversy con-troversy but in the meantime the law must be enforced and combinations to stop production cannot be tolerated. n MINERS AWAIT HEARING PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 3. No effort will be made by the United Mine Workers of America to have non-union miners in the Pittsburgh field join the strike until after the injunction in-junction proceedings in Indianapolis have been disposed of. according to union officials here today. "There is nothing to be gained by such a move now," they said. Reports from western and central Pennsylvania showed 1 no change in the situation. Union mines, it was said, were 1 closed tight, while work generally had been resumed in non- union mines. "Stripping" operations, where the coal is taken I out by steam shovels, also were working and every possible effort was being made by railroads to provide cars. Considerable quantities of coal in transit was confiscated by railroad officials, and were being distributed to places where fuel was most needed. OFFICIALS SILENT. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 3. Officials of the United Mine Workers of America at the international headquarters here today continued their silence on the coal strike, an attitude atti-tude forced on them last Friday by the restraining order issued by United States District Judge A. B. Anderson. Not a word regarding the strike could be obtained here. - GOMPERS SEEKS SETTLEMENT. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Labor of. , ficials declined today to di'cuss reports re-ports thai Samuel Gompers, president ' c' the American Federation of Later, rid suggested a way of settling the ; Mai strike. Mr. Gompers is m New York and other officers oi the fedcra-I fedcra-I ion said there was no one her'- to "-peak for him. 5 Reports were awaited by the government gov-ernment from agents in the copI fields ho had been directed to telegraph nmtdiat;ly all racU bearing on the attitude cf the striking miners and es- Pecially whether they showed a dispo- rtior) to work. At the White Hojse today it v.as stated that President Wileor'c o-fcr ff arbitration of the strike rtill was , cpen. Meanwhile preparations for '.he j 'fitting up of a committee on indus- I ""rest as recommended by the ; Public group in the recert inoust'-ial conference are going forward and the flection of the personnel is expected o be completed by the cabinet tomor-row, tomor-row, ne of the first effects of '.he coal f,r'ke hac been the curtailment of pas-'-nger trains on some railroads. Di-rtctor Di-rtctor General Hines has given re-9'onal re-9'onal directors wide discretion in .his. freight service will not be disturbed Wen the coal shortage oecomes se-''u. se-''u. Officials believe -that the stocks c' coal in transit together with the '"outands el tons stored at terminals maintain this aervice for several weekg j survey of all coal stocks held by "iroads is under way. The 'a.lroad mln.strat.on ?30 Is gathering fig-b." fig-b." cn tnc quantity of coal at sea-i sea-i h ,r' intnded for export, bi't which been ordered held for the railroads 11 necessary. TO ENFORCE INJUNCTION. 1 7lanapolis. ind., Nov. 3 John fanti' ar,lQf; President of the or-"orintr0?; or-"orintr0?; h0 W Sunday at Quarters until this afternoon : fcrcilV('rnnient'y Program for en-; en-; the mi . restr''niug order against ! lakm definite shape with the ar-r:al ar-r:al lu re today of Dan V. Sims of ;LaFac-tte. Ind. special assistant attorney at-torney general Attorneys for the mint ra also have been busy preparing ifor the hearing on the governments' petition for a temporary injunction, set by Judge Anderson for next Sun-day. Sun-day. It was reported today that William Wil-liam G. McAdoo, former secretary of 'the treasury, might be retained by the miners in addition to Henry Warrurc, ,a local attorney. I Striking miners, according to a report re-port from that rlty today, are to meet this atterucon to discuss the local situation situ-ation Some of the miners. It was said, favor returning to work in vl'v of the j fact that union miners of Christian. Hopkins and Webster counties are at work under an agreement signed in September. While practical!: .ill Indiana mines I 'were open and miners' trains were run i Ion schedule. It was said only the en-j jgineers and pumpers vent to work., (there being no break in the ranks of; the strikers at railroad mines. Six wagon mines in Sullivan count. how -I r. were reported in operation. N'o violence or disorder had been re- I ported, the miners for the most part; remaining in their homes. TO HANDLE COAL SUPPLY. Oklahoma City, Okla . Nov. 8. Prep-aratforis Prep-aratforis were going on today for a, meeting of the state council of de-1 Ifense with LHrset Cartier, president of the Oklahoma Coal Operators' association, asso-ciation, to make plans foi handling the fuel situation The number of non-union miners who remained at work in Oklahoma Is ' 1 according to information from j District 21. United Mine Workers. Phe union claim.-; 7,916 miners are on strike in the state. MINES CLOSED DOWN. Pittsburg. Kan.. Nov. 3. The i. BBSS eoal mining field was quiet today, the shutting of shafts and strip pits being complete. No disorder of any kind has been reported With Reduced Force. DENVER, Colo . Nov. 3 Early re ports received at the offices of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, in Idlcated that the company properties at Primero. Frederick and Berwind in the southern Colorado coal field, were' operatinK today with reduced forces.; These properties were kepi closed on Saturday by the company pending ar-j rival of troops In the Walsenburg district the com-Ipany com-Ipany described the situation as "about' the same as Saturda' with fie or six' company mines operating Onlj : few men reported at the; Fremont and Rockvale mines in Fre- , inont couni an-1 the-., properties were not operating, it was announced , At 9 o'clock C. F- Weltsel, manager ; of the Colorado Fuel and Iron com -I pany. Trinidad, announced that 381 men reported for work today at five company properties in that district. Mr. Weitzel said this wan 30 per cent of the normal working force Troops ; were guarding the properties. None Back to Work I )US MOINES, la . Nov. 3. No re- I ports tri anj ol the union coal mines in Iowa had k turned to work today had returned to work today had been re- celved this inorninc a1 the state head-Quarters head-Quarters of the operators' association here. Return to Work. MINOT, s D., Nov. 3 Lignite min- ers in the Burlington, N. D., area, re-1 turned to their work today after being. on strike one day |