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Show UNION MINERS VOTE TO STRIKE IF SCALE IS CUT CEASE WORK IF WAGES, ORDER Coal Miners Assume De fiant Attitude in Face of Looming Reduction HOWAT IS DEFEATED Mother Jones Enters at Exciting Moment and Scolds Convention INDIANAPOLIS Ind.. Feb. IS General suspension of work by union coal miners on April 1. subject to n referendum vote of the union m m-bership, m-bership, was ordered late today by the convention of the L'nSUd Mine Workers Work-ers of America unless n"W wage agreements agree-ments are readiusted before that date In both the bituminous and anthr.i- ItC coal fields The convention orders that all new wage agreements should be for two years and date from next April. After announcing that the official vote in the Kansas controversy stood 2,073 foi the administration to 1 '.i .".'. for Howat a majority of 1 1 for the administration the convention adjourned ad-journed sine die. Renew il ot th- demand of union coal miners for a six-hour day. fire-day week, a prODOEC.1 that waa made before the lull strike, was adopted as a part of the policy the union will seek to ha e included In Ihe new wage agreements, agree-ments, effective April I. Thl demand hud the united imposition of the unions un-ions Leaders including all district president i The convention action for the shorter short-er working day, however, was the only radical ohange In th wage policy pro posed bv ihe union's s ale committee, which centered the union' policy proposals pro-posals toward retaining present basic-wages basic-wages for roft co.-.l mmers mid gaining Increases for anthracite workers under threat of a general saike The strike and wage proposJils by the committee were adopted by unanimous vote. The strike declaration however, provided for its submission to a referendum voto of the union membership before n walkout is i rdered b: officials. PITH is W IS HI n I It In declaring for the six-hour day, the delegates overrode the committee recommendations for an eight-hour day underground and also voted down a proposal llmltlnu actual work time lo seven hours a day. Bitter criticism of the union's officers of-ficers was made bv delegates In urging urg-ing adoption of tho sir-hour day, but several officials took the floor appeal ing for favorable action on the com-mittee'a com-mittee'a eight-hour demand. Whether tho six-hour day demand obtains for the anthracite districts was an unanswered Question, it was pointed point-ed out that the anthracite worker were not opposing the proposal President Presi-dent John L Lewis said he was unable lo advise the delegates as to the six hour day as affecting anthracite workers. Aside from the fiction of the six-hour six-hour day the delegates al recorded an intention to fjtlften up some of the minor demands recommended by the I scale committee by substituting ' de-I de-I mand" for "recomemnd" where it up- peared In the committee report. OTHKK DEM VXDS its other demands is adopted. In-I In-I elude the follow ing ''Removal of Inequitable differentials ' "In wages which would result In Increased In-creased wages in some field, pay and one-half for overtime work: double pay for Sunday and holiday work elimination of tho mi ton-fa tic ponalt clause of the present agreements providing pro-viding for finlnrr miners or operator for violation of contracts and all new contracts to betain for two years, bc-I bc-I ginning next April Tho official vote rejecting the plea of Alexander 7-towat and other nxpell-ed nxpell-ed Knnsns miners for reinstatement In 'the union, by n vote of 2073 to 1 B6E ' was read amid disorder, which sub-I sub-I sided somewhat when Frank Parrlng-; Parrlng-; ton. president of the Illinois miner ,,nd the antl-administrnf Ion leader, announced an-nounced that all Illinois ! I ncf would hold a separate meeting here tomorrow to-morrow 'iftrnoon- Mr Parrlngton said the meeting was to elect the Illinois members of a wage scale committee, and refused to confirm or deny that tho meeting was i tiled In the Interest of FTowat TERRORISM CHARGED President Lewi In a formal state-, state-, ment after the sine die adjournment of the convention said "extensive ef-, ef-, forts" had been made to pack the convention so thit It would overthrow the expulsion of Howat. ' The attempt to terrorize and stamped stam-ped .he contention fa'-lod miserably," he du led "The organization will now b able to po forward with its wage policies and npplv Itself to Its proper affairs I shall In few days lssufi (Continued on Pace Two.) CEASE WORK IF OWNERS SLASH WAGES, ORDER Coniruucd from I'ago One.) anothercall to the operators of the central competitive field for a meet-(ng meet-(ng a an early dale to work out wage agreement. If possible." The majority In tho roll call against seating Alexander Howati and his suspended sus-pended Kansas followers fluctuated In the convention during a session m. irked by disorders Mother Jonva. ak'cd organizer, took the convention in hand at the height of disorders and succeeded In quieting tho delegates for the time. This cam after a charge that the administration jtad increased Ineligibility vote list. Vice President PhiUlP Murray was presiding pre-siding "Where did you buv them Murray?' BhQUtad Joseph l.ynall of the Illinois delegation after fifteen delegate cotes had been cast. Mr Murray explained that the con-vention con-vention had accepted credentials that were submitted too lato for Inclusion in tho printed roll call The explana tion apparently waB not aallsfuctory i to the Howat men, who continued tho noise and Lynall. advancing again toward the stage shouted- "I can prove vou added more names' without proper credentials " Then Mother Jones made her dramatic dram-atic appearance The howls and hoots changed almost Instantly to cheers nnd sho began addressing the delegates dele-gates "Don't vou know that tho whole industrial in-dustrial world Is looking to you for a lesson," began Mother Jones ' You arc wasting time that means money and the children at home need It to feed them. We are r'aclnj u crisis In Industrial organizations. You must realise that the enemy that we were fighting from the outside is now boring from the Inside There is not n officer that I would not raise hull with to right a wrong But you should not come here to howl j and hoot. You came here to outllno a wage policy." Mot her Jones praised Howat for his I opposition to tho1 Kansas Industrial court law and his other work as a member (,f the miners union saying my desire Is to have a million Alexander Alex-ander HowatS In ihe country. " How-it's, fiph. she laid had advertised tho1 "damnable" Kansas law, or- |