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Show COAL MINERS INVITE RAIL MEN TO JOIN FORCES AGAINST WAGE CUTS1 JOHN L LEWIS I SAYS TIME IS RIPE TO ACT Sixteen Rail Organizations Invited to Attend Meeting Meet-ing With Miners NO DATE ASSIGNED Further Plans to Depend on Responses Made to Invitation INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 1. The United Unit-ed Mine Workers of America aro wlll-j inK to "unreservedly pool their inter- ( ests with the railroad organizations, and stand with them In resistance to the proposed attacks upon their w age schedule." .lolui U. Irlf. Vremn-tional Vremn-tional president of the miners, declar-, ed In a statement todny. The state- j ment was made along with the announcement an-nouncement that invitations to participate partici-pate In a meeting with the miners had been sent to officers of the. lfi major organizations of railroad workers I nitcm TO ACCEPT. Mr Iewls declared tho railroad workers have been "compelled to accept ac-cept inequitable wage reductions" and asserted propaganda now Is belniri conducted on a gigantic scalo to en-force en-force further ' unwarranted wage cutvi upon them." It is likewise apparent that certain interests are seeking wage reductions in the coal mining industry," he con-1 tinned. "In order to successfully com-( bat this frenzied hysteria, the miners are willing to Join hands with thej railroad workers," he added TIME DECLARED RIP I Pointing out that tht 1919 convention conven-tion of tho miners directed that steps be taken toward the promotion of a closer understanding between tho coal workers and the railroad men, the letter let-ter of Invitation declared "the time is now opportune for the holding of a meeting of accredited representatives I of each organisation for the above-mentioned above-mentioned purpose We would 1 respeetf ully request that, as repre- Isentlng your organization, you give I Immediate consideration to tho suggestions sug-gestions contained therein." I No date or place was suggested for 'holding the meeting, that action belni; I withheld pending replies from the railroad workers' officials Kl I I si Ti ( OMMENT CLEVELAND, hlo, Feb 1 Wnr-ren Wnr-ren i? Stone, president of the Hrothei-hood Hrothei-hood of Locomotive Engineers and W. (i Ii-i . prt-.ddent of the brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen said today thej i had not yet received invitations from 1 John L Lewis, president of the miners, min-ers, to moot with tho miners In resist-I resist-I ing proposed attacks upon their wage schedules Neither would comment on the matter. |