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Show OUTLOOK FOR HARD COAL IS REAL BRIGHT Anthracite Operators Agree ! to ReBume Operations at Former Scale CLL VELAN'D, hlo. A ug. 14. (By the Associated Press.) The bituminous bitumin-ous coal conference was resumed hero today between operators of tho central cen-tral competitive 'lebi and union chiefs of the mine wofKers, w:th Indication that an agreement. Involving a major-Ity major-Ity "f tho tonnage In lh- fteid. WOUld be consummated Tuesday or Wednesday. Wednes-day. According to cnolflclal word from tue meeting, only minor details of the peace plan remain to be worked out the major premises having been I agreed to in all oi.tea. OKI) ONI DIFFERENCE , ne of the principal differences said still to demand consideration was that, over compulsory ; rbitratlon of future conflicts; The operator! are reported to tavor somo such provision, while the miners seem more Inclined to tne establishment of a "fact finding i urn mission." whose conclusions might be used as a basts for negotiations. Thero seems Utile probability, how -; eyer, that this question will disrupt the conference, which has made such excellent progress In "ringing together the two sides of the present tleup. The proposed new agreement would run only until net April 1. Ir would be expected to furnish tiie basis of state negotiations in other sections and WOUld quickly result In capacity production bituminous coal throughou tnt country according accord-ing to those in touch with the situation situa-tion SETTLEMENT IaOMS. PHILADELPHIA A.Ug 14 Samuel D Warriner. president of tho Lehigh Coal and .Navigation company and spotyesman for the anthracite ccal operators, op-erators, announced today that he had notified John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers' that the I mine owners srere wllllne to resunio operations In the hard coal fields at the old wage scale, pending the appointment ap-pointment of a commission to Investigate Investi-gate the situation Mr. Warriner said he I ad telegraphed .Mr. Lewis Sunday night suggesting that a conference of anthracite operators and representatives representa-tives of the miners be held In this city Wednesday. DANGER AHEAD Mr Warrlner's action followed a conference Sunday with Pnited States Senator George Wharton Pepper. Governor Gov-ernor Sproul. W J. Richards, president presi-dent of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company and William A. Olasgow. Jr., counsel for the Pnited Pnit-ed Mine Workers. At this moetlng. It became known today, Senator Pepper road a letter from President Harding In which the president declared that further delay In the resumption of mining would mean danger of nothing short of na-tion-wldc disaster " LEWIS ACCEPTS CLEVELAND, Aug. 14. Accepting Mr Warrlner's Invitation to meet the operators In conference In Philadelphia Philadel-phia on Wednesday, Mr. Lewis said; j "The board premise upon which you have based your invitation Is com- I mendable and augurs well for the sue- I cess of the conference " |