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Show 1 LOSES HOPE OF AVERTING BIG COAL STRIKE 1 1 U. S. WORKING ! TO KEEP SIP i' fuel supply Wyoming But Not Utah Mines to Be Affected by Strike Order RAILROADS SUPPLIED General Impression Locally Is There Will Ee No Walkout I WASHINGTON' March 13 Go-ernment Go-ernment officials were representee . today .is being without hope that the threatened coal strike cm be avert-. d or that the proposed cpnfen between the operators and miner would be arranged. It was Indicated :hal government intervention :ii leist 4 in the preliminaries of the situation! I was practically at an end. Holding that Strike '.'11 Anil 1. is almost Inevitable, government i ;' i i ials, according to the view presented today on high authority iov li I chiefly interested in seOng that a. ' sufficient supply of cowl is maintained! for the country as a whole. -I I I ATION NOT ( LTI The situation with respect to cooj supply, it was stated. Is not acute. There now is at the surface of Aroal mines and In stocks at consuming . SJBJBf enters, it was declared cnniiKli con yn&M to last the countrj he prospects, it wac added, thai this supply will be augmented by produe- i tion fron non-union mines und frozn pa r: mentor la hor reports are eovefea tJl i .y dtrlrt settlements between the J- j miners union and local iclatl mi j w I The degree of the govern , mi I I intervention In this strike situation I a high official said today, "must be fc, yl determined by Ihe ozti al ol i .... V ( i Inconvenience and suffering which Is v ; . auseri by the ,inkc " L WILL NT USE loll' I V t wai 1 ment did not propose to enter upon any attempt to force a conference. Secretary of Labor Davis his gone '.s far as he Intends to go in thai direction, di-rection, it was said, by repeatedlj and publicly pointing out that the civernmenf considers the mine operators op-erators of the central competitive field to be bound by provrsrons of the existing ex-isting national wage contract to enter negotiations from making a substitute national contract ready to apply by! April 1 when the old one expires operation In the semi-conficienti al exchanges with the labor department were said to have taken the position that the wage contracts prov- oi with respect to Its renewal no longer binds them, because of local or district dis-trict actions by the miners unions' which they claim to have been in violation vio-lation of contracts, i; ULiROAD l MOXS Comment was withheld today upon the possiblllt that railroad lubor un-j ons might be drawn Into the struggle! after April 1. Production of bituminous coal con-ilnues con-ilnues to increase slowly according to he current weekly report of the I'til'- il :d- States Geological Survey. In the I .i ffk ending March I. production ( jBj reached 1,913,000 tons. fr I productlo . sedSd consumption and It i eai hat consumers hnvc added materially o their stocks,'1 ilv report said,, "hut :t will require- putting another ten! million Ions Into storage to raise consumers con-sumers reserves to the level re:i. hi i at the close of Ihe war." I COAL SITU vnov I. Railroads in Ogden wer.- declarci I 1o lie well prepared in the event of a I f-oal strike on April l. There la i .' day supply of coal plied in ih-at ih-at Ogden and the roads v. I!! commence com-mence to use this coal whuh'r the strike takes place ..r not Marriner Browning, manager of the Lion Coal company, said the Wyoming Wyo-ming mines of the company would be affected in the event of the strike but that the I'tah mine was not likely like-ly to be closed. COAL HI SIN ESS POOR Mr. Browning said that the ' ";; business Is In such poor -shape that -ven in the fact of a threatene I 1 ; ibclr mines show no unudiial actb j lt'. In fact, he said that men were j-ing laid off at one mine. Retail coal yards In og 1 n do )m 'linear to be storked for anj gi length of time but at the am4 timi H there seems to be no activity on the H pari of citizens to lay In D supply I H In the face of a threatened strike. MANY SHJEEPTICAL. H In all quarters Is heard expressions H which indicate there are few pen ni H who believe that ihe union mini H will strike The general eins to be that the miners have I mnll chance of winning If thi y do strike I'oal men declared that in sVenl I il Strike II Is unlikely thai etfori v . 1 1 1 be made to operate, but thut the mines will remain cloBod for a time jjending developments. |