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Show NEW YORKERS WORRY A600T COAL FAMINE Fear Dimming of White Way as Strike Enters' Second Week NEW YORK. Apr!! 10. Apprehen-j elve that a threatened coal famine may-darken may-darken "the grea White way.' as It I did during the "llghtless" days of the' war the Broadway Merchants' association associ-ation will send a delegation of 250 1 members to Washington Thursday toj file protest with President Harding! against the miners" strike. Leon Sunshine, president, of the association, as-sociation, urges that President Harding Har-ding wield a "big stick'' In the present pres-ent controversy and declared the merchants mer-chants favored government ownership of the mines if the operators ' won t i un them " "If the miners won t work, get others oth-ers who will," ho added. sot I VI-ISTS TO HELP CHICAGO, April io. Members of the Socialist party are called in a letter let-ter sent out today by th" national executive ex-ecutive committee "to render every possible aid to the striking coal miners" mi-ners" "We urge our members in the strUe zone." the letter sud ";o .!a-e Ih'-n-selvea at the service of the local un- lions. Where th- can render pW 1 et duty, or serve In gi'he.ing or distrlb- 'utlng relief the- should d" MINERS t XBROKEN INDIANA!'' 'Lbs, 1 ml April 10 The second week Of the nation-wide suspen- "n of work l-v union coal miners mi-ners got under way today with the union un-ion .- oi ft ' ni.' ' i o n still presenting an unbroken front und th situation In the non-union fields becoming mote favorable favor-able to the union's cause, according to 'the view of the situation expressed by John l. Lewis, president of the I'nitcd Mine Workers of America Mr Lew-la Lew-la returned to Indianapolis yesterda 'when he established national head-i quarters for direction of the .suspension Work bv the union miner-" GOMPERS I CHICAGO CHICAGO. April 10 Samuel Gom-u, Gom-u, rs president of t h A ne rlcan F deration de-ration of Labor, who is to arrive here today to attend the opening meeting of the rallwaj employes plans to remain re-main until Wednesday when he win preside at a general conference or labor la-bor leaders This conference, Mr Oompers has Laid "IS to consider problems onfront-in,? onfront-in,? particular localities, us well as the labor movement In general " The coal miners strike will be discussed, dis-cussed, but dealers deelare that no thing more than moral support will unpledged. un-pledged. The convention of the railway employes em-ployes Is to continue two weeks INJUNCTION GRANTED CHARLESTON. W. Va., April 10 Mine union members and officers wen forbidden to Interfere with free competition com-petition among men working il the l industry in West Virginia, and ten colonies of strlgers in Mingo county were not to be maintained after . 0 days in a temporary injunction issued by' Judge GeoiK v McClintOck In I l ulled Slates district court her.- todaj The injunction, addressed to various International and district 17 offteeri of the United Mine Workers of Km erics and to all officials and members! of that organization, was Issued on the petition of the Borderland Coal, company and sixty-two other West Virginia and Kentucky operators DAUGHERTY XT WORK 1NDIANAPI.IS. l"d April 10. . attorney General Daugherty, who ar-. rld here from Washington today un-: announced, was declared authonta-1 lively to he considering the dismissal of indictments pending here in federal court, which some operators have declared de-clared made Impossible- any wage con- fi n nce that would end the coal strike.: which began April 1 The attorney general s mission was kpt a secret and he refused to tate Its purpose declaring he could Ray nothing until Investigation of the purpose of my trip is complete, and I I am satiefiod that any action Is right.' I 4 |