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Show JOINT SCALE i COMMITTEE AT IRK ON IKE I i Miners to Present Proposition for Increased Wages at Laier Session CLEVELAND, 0 Aug. 14. The ;clnt scale committee Of miners and operators In the central competitive! bituminous coal field, meeting at the i quest of President Wilson to consider con-sider th. question of re-oicntng the v age se al, paid day or month laboi-i rr:, i. .-convened this morning at 10 i clock and adjourned until five p. m. when the miners expect to present their proposition for increased wages., i i;v. is SPEAKS. John L. I. wis. president of the, United Mine Workers, addressed this morning's meeting on behalf of tpc miners He discussed the general situation sit-uation In the coal Industry, pointing out that some relief mea-sures wero necessary for the stabilization of wagea and said the miners would meet two o clc-k ibis afternoon for final discussion of their wage proposal andl I he hoped to be able to formally pre-' sent It to the operators at the later meeting today. The operators also will meet at 2 I o'clock to discuss tho situation. MINERS sl'LlT. From a union olficlal it was learned that a factional struggle splits the uiiiiers group and complicates their i dc liberations. Prank Partington, president of the I Illinois miners, and leader In the re- cent Illinois toil strike, is here wiih a program of maximum demands,; backed up by the recent Illinois j strike, ("resident Lewis and the administration ad-ministration group In the union have . (n hand similar demands presented bj j locals and state bodies throughout the, i country which have not. however.' reads any strike thieats. Circulars asking locals to demand the calling of nn international convention con-vention to pass upon whatever action i.. taken here, are being sent'out by! (western miners" unions, according to 0 delegate fiom Indiana. President ; .loan L I-wis, of the United Mine Workers of America, declared he had! I beard nothing about it. |