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Show I KANSAS MINERS' I SlfpED Action Is Due Next Week Because Be-cause of Fines Levied, Howat Declares " PITTSBURG. Kan., July 24 A ?jBl strike of the Kansas coal miners next SJj week Is. impending. Alexander How at, HBB president of the Kansas miners, ns- HbhSJ sorted today. He said the miners '" 'jj would start cleaning up the mines J Monday preparatory to a walkout Th 3 strike. It was explained, Will be In pro- jM test of tines levied against the miners l for refraining from working on Sat- . k It was Intimated at the headquarters of the KanM" inlin-rs today that at I Jjf least half of the miners of the district I 19 would he affected by the deduction I Ki from their pay today The miners jnH will be short $1 and $2 Some of them worked one Saturday in the last 'fiH two and others worked neither one ?JH Officials of the operators' organlza- njjB tlon say that the contract provides jK for the fines and It has been deemed S necessary to follow the contract gf-gg The deduction from the pay of the va men Is denounced as "outrageous" by i3K5 Howat. In a large number of cases, 'yST? Howat says the men were given no H work during the week and objected to going to work on Saturday. |