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Show WOTrSo SEEK MEANS OF SETTLING COAL STRIKE WASHINGTON. June cs President Harding has decided ti: .summon to Washington Saturday a grdup of rep-' rep-' resentative cOul operators from all parts of the Dnlted Sint.- to discuss with representatives of the miners' union the possibility !" a .-ont'-rence to fix w.iK scales that would settle the coal strike. An announcement explaining the piopusal v, ill b m;"le later In the day. The arrangements were completed after af-ter conferences at the While House today in which Secretaries Davis and Hooer pai tlcipaled. while John 1. Lewis, president of th" l'nited Mine Workers, who saw ihe )rfsldent Monday, Mon-day, remained in the capital for the purpose of considering the mat tier. The coming conference which it is understood will assi mble at 10 o'clock Saturday, v. in discuss solely what steps may be caken to get th wage negotiations on foot Tn date the miners' min-ers' union has demanded a national I conference while operators in general, refusing to enter such a Kathrlnpr base countered with proposals to meet in district conference fr separate district dis-trict wage fixing No official in authoritative indlca- , lion, however, was given that the meeting President Harding is -xpect- 1 ed to call would find elthei pans to i the controversy yielding Its stand ! case to the type of conference which 1 finally would he accepted. The gath-I gath-I crlng Saturday will be entirely Infor-nial Infor-nial and devoted to discUSSihg what ! sort of a basis might be adopted to bnng the union officials and the em-plus em-plus lis representatives Into a Joint negotiation ne-gotiation empowered to fix a definite wage agreement the agreement to bo either national contract or a various number of separate distrlil contract-SETTLEMENT contract-SETTLEMENT SEEN. ; GREENHAV, Wis. June 28. ; Greenbay coal dock operators received receiv-ed confidential teleprams this morning ; from Cleveland coal operators, announcing an-nouncing thM have asked for a conference con-ference with President Harding and ! John L. Lew is, president of the l'nited l'nit-ed Mine Workers of America, and e-j e-j pressed confidence that the coal strike ! can be settled if such a meeting is arranged. The operators reported to be a par ty to the plan ar said to represent an annual production of 20.000 0'0 tons in Uhio, Wfesl Virginia and Perin-S) Perin-S) Ivania, and are acting in conjunction. conjunc-tion. I-TTFXINti OP OITIMISM. W1LKE8BARRE Pai, June 28. iA feeling of optimism sin b as has not prevailed since the suspension of operations op-erations on April 1 was general today to-day in the hard coal regions of Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. Hopeful news of the conference con-ference between John L, Lewis, president presi-dent of the United Mine Workers" and President Harding resulted in the sudden sud-den adjournment of the anthracite general scale committee and abandonment abandon-ment of the plans for immediate con-verting con-verting the suspension Into a strike, led the rank and file of the men to believe they wnuld be back in the mines by tho middle of July. Thomas Kennedy, president of the general scale committee, said that ithe Immediate developments in both the bituminous and anthracite industries indus-tries may bo looked for cvr a result of Mr. Iewls" conference with the president pres-ident and other government officials CO M- l GOING. OSKALOOSA, Iowa. June 2i. With all local fuel supply sources .closed the Oskaloosa artificial ice company faced a Shutdown and the town Is threatened With an Ice fam-'lne. fam-'lne. The plant has less than two 'weeks' supply. TltoriJLE -VIFPAD. ALTON. Ills., June 28. Contlnu-Janco Contlnu-Janco ot the coal strike for any length 'of time will cause considerable dlffl-j : culty here, according to reports from ( Industries and public utilities Large jcoal supplies at the time the strike Was Inaugurated have enabled factories factor-ies and utilities to operate uninterrupt-1 cdl Some of the factories will use: oil as fuel, should the .strike continue! after their coal supply has been ex-. ex-. hausted. |
