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Show LAW TO DELAY CALLING STRIKES BEING URGED WASHINGTON, Nov 19 -Speaking iwlth the authority of President Wilson's Wil-son's cabinet, Fuel Administrator Gar : field told representatives of the bitum 'inous coal operators and miners here today that "the people of the United States need, must have and will have eoal," and as long as the government j stands they will not be preventedttp:s getting it by "anything the operators or miners may do" Dr. Garfield explined that his pur pose was to furnish the conference With the data which he would use m ! determining what wage advances, if lany, agreed to by the operators and miners, could be borne properl by ! the public ST. louis. Mo , Nov ii - a federal 'law to prohibit calling of strikps until after every means nf conciliation had ; failed was urged in a resolution pre ! sented today at the tonvention of th. American Mining I ongresa bere. The resolution l sso-ted man; strikes were called precipitately befori any attempts wetO made to conciliate differences, and said such a law would benefit workmen "mere than by 6trik Ing as It would pre.ent the suffering incident to strikes." It was suggested in the resolution that a feder;il commlsion be appointed to determine when a strike legally could be called under the proposes law. Sectional meetings of the national war minerals' conference, national gold conference. na;ijnal o'l !?hale con terene.--, ond national conference school of mines were held. Would Remunerate Pro-Dector. m iiiv nnuuiiai a I uinif I din UU j ference it was urged that prospectors i whose claims before the war minerals ! relief commission have b-en rejected, be given some sort of remuneration 1 for their unsuccessful hunts for min-I min-I erals to be used lor military purposes during the war. Speakers at the gold coherence declared de-clared ihe nation could iot prosper un less gold production increased ind as serted heavv taws. Increased cost of materials and labor demands had 'forced the mines tq reduce production virtually to a max'mum. Gold Production. "Gold is most necessary for the fi nancial and credit needs of a nation and In these times of inflated eurren j cy, maximum gold production should j be encouraged bv all forms .if busi-. busi-. ness," said George M Tavlor of Crip Iple Creek. Colo. , A resolution presented to the oil Bhale conference recommended that .1 government appropriation of 1140,000 be made for research work in oil shale. |