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Show SUPPLY I IF COAL I SCANTY I I Shortage of Fuel In H Nation At Danger H INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Dec. 4 Headcd by Acting President John L. Lewi!), six general and district officials offi-cials of the United Mine Workers of America, appeared at the federal budding shortly before noon today and surrendered to United States Msr shsl Mary Storen, who held capiases for their arrest on information filed yesterday, charging 84 officers of the organization wifth contempt of court The men provided bond6 of $100C each, which were furnished by a surety 1 company. The hearing will be held at 11 ft' rlty.fr n?gt Tiidap 4 CHICAGO. Dec. 4. Another day of dip-ping dip-ping into the rapidly dwindling roal re-I re-I serve added its bit to the dlsiuptlon of lndnstr today No imnidlutc relief through a return to work on Mtumlnoaa I miners who went on strike 34 days ago is In Snincof the lrgvr rltloa today for h' H first Urns since the wallkout felt flit stress of th situation Prom the cltlei and towns In the west and southwe. H ' nonic of them entirely without fuel .ramo i reports of ai tual suffering. In thre Nebraska towna fence posts and Ml com v is being burned. State exc utlvss continued action ic obtain Immediately enough coal to pr- J vent or reduce differing, leaving solution 'of the greater question, ending of ihe i strike, to Washington officials Gov-I Gov-I mors of three states Carey of Wyoming; Wyom-ing; McXelvIe of N-lraska. and Shour Of ColOi-ndo hnil : the pnri-eto ot a conference todn nt D-nvr working out i some plan "for the satisfactory distrlbo Hon of coal." V new wage senle for miners, greed 1 upon by representatives of all the larcr. t coal mining corporations, today Is to o. submitted to the fuel administration t i V;ishinsrton for ratification. It cm-' cm-' bodied a little more than the fourteen I per cent Increase suggested by Fu-1 ', Administrator Garfield and rejected the miners As to n-hnt effort It WOUd have on the situation, there was nc prediction Neither was there any com , ment on the n lion of the federal eourl I at Indlanupolls In citing 81 genern' sat j district oificlals of the United Mine , Workers of America for contempt of thf (order calling off the strike. The mim j workers' officials will be given a hearl.i, I Tuesday. DespMe labor troubles In lhe New rlv. ; I fields, West t irjrinla today is to be th 'nation's chief producer of soft coal. In Kansas an appreciable amount oi fuel was being brought from the BUrfa mines bj volunteer working under pro I tcction of state and federal troops. Siini , lar mines In Missouri would be opcratcc by the state, a statement by the govern-: govern-: ment said, unless the miners returned tc work under the terms offered hem. Oo company of state militiamen already war on duty In the vicinity of the MUuH)Uli surface mines and three additional com-I com-I panics were ordered there Tonight ws the lime, limit extended the miners 'o j return to work. " Volunteers for work In the mines o' I nearby states still were registering in Nebraska today It nlso was said thai I 'Wyoming faced possibility of volunteer mining undr troop prote:Uon Notice Is Served Iowa mine operators served notice m I union workers that unless they returned ! to work on December 8. the mines would be opened to any competent labor Some operators maintained their n'ti-properties n'ti-properties worked by inexperienced men They claimed It was a hawrdous occu patlon and pointed to the deaths of six men and serious Injury of three others terday at Bogle Mine No 3. Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, Ind The killed and Injured wen either mine officials or office employes As the coal shortage grows there are numerous complaints of profiteering tn substitutes. no |