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Show DEMAND FOR NEW HIGH WAGE ME TO BERENEWED SPRINGFIELD. Ill, No? 12. Orig-' Orig-' inal demands for a GO per cent in crease in wages, a .six-hour day am' a I five-day week Will be presented to op jerators by mine workers in the joint Bcale conferences called ?cr Fridaj In Washington, at th nistanco of Set r. tary of Labor Wilson, according to ! Frank Farrlngton, chairmtn of the miners' scale committee, wh" cam I here today en route to th.e natioaal capital I Asked whether the miners would obey the strike rescinding order ol I Acting President Lewis, Farrlngton' said: ' In my judgment Die miners will tot return to work '' He added, hi wever. that he spoke onlv for the '.lltnols c'ls trict, of which he Is niesident Farrington said the impression t "ial "the slate had been wiped dean.' so far as demands srerc concerned, tiad i no basis in fact, ilthoi;gh ihe miners I stood ready to negotiate a new scale I without reservatioas. The old demands Will stand " Mr. iFarrington stated. "They were formulated formu-lated by the Cleveland convention il t of them, however, are subject to negotiation." nego-tiation." Miners' representative will insist, he declared, that any new aur m nt be effective at once a. id not on Ma"ch 81, 1920, as operaior formerly cjn j tended. Mr. Farrington. who wiil le-ivi ,i, 'today for Washington, said he was hopeful that th scale conferences would he productive cf speedv results. He will be accompanied h Vice Presl dent Harry FishwlCK r.nl SeCretsr (Treasurer Waiter N'esbli of the nn. nois district. I r.-, |