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Show mm es MUST DE CUT, 0W11S STATE I Wholesale Coal Association Manager Outlines Policy to Club Members MUST CURE DISORDER Hope Expressed Govern-ment Govern-ment Will Not Intervene in Strike April 1 I INDIAN APOliIS. Ind March 21. A formal c-all for : strike of botb an-; an-; thru il- and bitumhiou-. coal Luim-rs . 11 p: ll I. cas i in out txla.y fl"Oin the lioadojuarti rs here or the United Mine Workers ol America. tvpi of tho iH wore placed ln. , the molls tor dollvory to otriclals r -.til 61 tlio bnl - S .-. locul rit'ifuidzii-U..I.S. rit'ifuidzii-U..I.S. scattered throughout the ;iuii-ty. ;iuii-ty. Tli- t.-M tin- i ail was not made public herd in the abccnec of nil ot-i ot-i U .ib of the union V, MilN(.TON. March Z Tho mtcrnmcnl vos i iiito.l ni the White Mouse t'tlay us not bavins cntirclj abandoned lis attempts to itHn thu bitlmlnous operators .mil miners 10- cctlicr In i ferenco designed to i . i .i siriki in Bueh rields Vprli 1. i hi added Statement tras made that OO Steps bad ln-eii 'al.en or results i:- ( tainod which would justify s public annonni ement. I WASHINGTON, March 21. Coal I operators who face the prospect of S strike of their employes April 1, but, j who still refuse lo enter a national conference with the coal miners union ; are not controlled by "mere mad - i ness, but a determination to cur: .i deep sealed disorder" George H. Cu-h-Ing, mannging director of the Whole-' ' sale Coal association, declared today In an address before the Washington' t 'ity club. Federal court Indictments which ! have charged operators of union mines' with conspiring with the miners' union un-ion In endeavors to fix coal prices and j damage non-union coal mines were held by Mr. Cushlng as largely re-j sponsible for the unwillingness of the' ! coal operators to i onfer VAt;l-:s Bib .K I-STION 1 Mr. Cu.shint; declared ihjt wage ! must come down in the mines, and ho j said this was illustrated by the amazing amaz-ing faet that under the present scale a practical miner can earn fully $5.-000 $5.-000 a year, though the miners know j that they dare not earn all the scale I allows. They know that If th public Should j realize how much a practical miner may earn," Mr. Cushlng added, "the people would refuse to pay the price j for coal which sin h a wage scale fixes. They know how quickly their rate would be cut. Labor is not ' striking against the coal operators, the railroad managers or the manufacturers manu-facturers It Is striking against the public. PUBLIC IGNORANT, CLAIM The public does not know to what extent the mine payroll has been padded. It docs know that it is compelled com-pelled to pay a price for coal ngainst I which it rebels. The coal operator j stands at a point where ho must see the cause on one side and the i U -i t I on the other. He has to turn about land fight Me has decided to strike at the real cause and he Is going Into rlilc w.trn hnttlr. ... i.la .1... Of strikers snd th- payroll paddsrs." Mr C ushlng asked his audience to , "let It be a fair fight to a finish." and to refrain from "prodding the gov-'. gov-'. crnment until It steps In." oo |