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Show tl, ' Strike of 300,00 To Occur On First of April Cincinnati. O.. March 1G Only by advancing wages can the coal mine operators of the country avert a strike I of union miners after April 1. arcord- Irg to developments before the special I convention of the Fnlted Mine Workers Work-ers of North America here todav. The session lasted only 13 minutes, but In that time the loaders of the men intimated inti-mated plainly that more money must be paid to the rO'i.niu) workmen involved, in-volved, or no new wage agreement will be sicned. The miners are under stood to be willing to give up their demands de-mands for Saturday half-bolldays, "run of mine" payments and the lesser points raised in the Joint conference con-ference of the central competitive field last wceh. On the ndvanre of wanes, however, they are firm. For the first time today to-day the miners nellfied the country of the gravity of the situation. |