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Show Miners Argue For Advance in Wages WASHINGTON, Jan, 14. Miners continued today their arguments for wage advances and shorter hours before be-fore the president's coal commission adjusting the causes of the recent strike. "It is the inability of the miners to get regular work that makes them reauiro 60 per cent increase in wages," John Moore, president of the Ohio district, dis-trict, said, "No coal miner can tell whether the mine is going to work the next day or not." John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers, gave out a statement reiterating that the miners' demand for a thiry-hour week only asked "assurance that they will have not less than thirty hours of steady work each week in the year.'' Lewis said the miners could produce all the country needed on a 30-hour week basis. . nri |