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Show HARD COAL MEN Id MEXT MIBuTDO - i u hill i iviiiitno 'Conference to Discuss Wages Will Take Place March 15 in N. Y. I PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 26 The anthracite coal operators announced I here today that they have agreed to I meet representatives of the United I Mine Workers in Joint conference in New York March 15 to negotiate a new wage agreement, B. D. Wnrrlner. chairman of the policies committee. Ra(l t WfLfl th(? unanimous feeling of the operators that there must he a deflation in coat prices and that tho mine workers, for the Hake of their own prosperity and tho general good nil around 'muet share In this deflation Mr War r In or, who g president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company com-pany said the Atlantic Cltv meeting was held to consider various phases of the present labor situation in the in-thmolte in-thmolte fields. It was in reply tr, a onoMlon Whether tho operators' would ask the mine workers to ncrept a reduction re-duction in wages at the expiration of the present contract on March 31 that he Indicated tho miners would he asked to readjust the present wage rates. The present situation Is 'ne Mr Warrlner said. Tn which the price' of anthracite mnl cannot expert to deviate from the trend of other commodities com-modities Mr. Warnner said tho high cost of coal to the consumer Is due to tho cot of production In which the mine workers' wages are a large part. There must bo deflation, be added, not onlv in wage rates but In freight rates ana I other things oo |