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Show Whole Difficulty With j Miners May Come Be- fore President. j WORKERS ARE FIRM j Plants Working On a j Greatly Reduced Basis j i To Conserve Coal. 11 ii i WASHINGTON. Nov. 25 President Wilson r- cabinet expected to reach a decision today on the .vage controversy between the bituminous coal miners and operates that would send the miners min-ers back to work. Befor? entering the meeting. Attorney Attor-ney General Palmer said that if the figures as to operators' profits given by former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo were correct, it was not like ly that Fuel Administrator Garfield would permit an increased price for coal. Any wage advances graned, it was intimated, wou'd have to come out of operators' profits. CHICAGO, Nov. 25 Closing of , additional manufacturing plants in tlv middle west, with others placed on a further curtailed fuel ration, and ij . lessening of production even In the ' 1 I mines which have been worked sine thes trike of approximately 425,Oi0 : bituminous coal miners went into effect ef-fect 25 days ago, was in prospect today. to-day. 1 1 1 A ray of hope entered the situation, however, with consideration of the en-j en-j tire strike question by President Wil- son's cabinet with possible refer. q I to the chief executive of the w hole difficulty. ! i From none of the great production fields came an indication todaj that I the miners had altered their disposition disposi-tion to await an agreement by the op i tors-miners' conference at Washington Washing-ton In Wyoming and Oklahoma there was a prospect of production b' inc: resumed and in West Virginia whore i the greatest quantity of fuel has been I brought out since the strike started, state troops Were ready io curb radicals rad-icals who threatened to shoot miners i returning to work. The Wyoming miners were to re- I I urn today after a one day strike, and in Oklahoma Governor Robertson said mining operations would be started again on the state prison farm Plants Conserving Coal. Indiana factories and state utilities were operated today on a greatly reduced re-duced basis, steps to conserve the COal suppl) be ing more drastic than in I'hii .io , icinity. where many plants havo closed A wave of crime that followed cutting off of street illumination illumina-tion in Chicago caused revocation of that on! i An U ged shortage at the mines in Wi Virginia nnel Kentucky of a suf ficient number of cars to remove the fuel being brought out there or which could be mined was said by E. H Jewell Jew-ell and other operators to be handicapping handi-capping their efforts to supply the 1 "f the country. One railroad of flclal who would not permit use of 1 his name because Hines doesn't want any talking except by himself." ex I plained that the shortage of cars was ; brought about by various fuel com-mittees com-mittees holding coal on cars until it is absolutely necessary to release it. Dr. Garfield took to the cabinet meeting bituminous coal production cost figures which are expected to furnish fur-nish the basis for an agreement in the cabinet as to the amount of the wage increase the operators would be called upon to bear. Gperators and miners spent two hours In conference today without breaking the deadlock as to wages Leaders on both sides said the negotiations negotia-tions would not be discontinued until after the cabinet had acted. |
