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Show PROSPECTS OF I COAL FAMINE DRAW NEARER icmiVGTON Nov. IS -Prospects, or SfSmfne drew nearer tonight with 1 ,n. between operator? and apparently at a standst.ll , Subcommittee of the Joint wag A committees discussed the general Hon for three heurs but it was Mid, ftc op rsdld no, wbmlt counter LmIc to the miner, demands The ! SJTiice will continue tomorrow etrc si." in a receptive mood ; J John U Lewis, acting present of 7,mu'l Mine Workers r,- committee remained in T an hour longer, after which T Brewster, chairman of the 2Son committee in the central com-. com-. . find, spoke optimistically He a this as the first attempt at real 0(U,'(!on since the miners and oner . I torf met at Buffalo icclslon of the Joint wage scale . -r ,0 contimi" it? nccoi, -.- I .mailer group came after the nn ar,d worker hd heard from Ful . , Kinlttrator Garfield that a? lone a? J V' covommcnt standi ' the people of the tf States need, must have, and will IS J.oil.'r.nd thr will no, be proven tad : . anvihirg the operators and miners l Th consuming puhlle. Pr. Garfield i'J j, r,ot In a mood to tolerate either ,i-w prices or prolonged stoppage of I wdocllon I The statement of the fuel admlnls- rtior. which was largely statistical) -jght out that In K16 the average cost L production of coal was $2 15 a ton ring to the operators an average mm - ra of tori; -six cnts a ton. |