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Show MINE W0RXER3 DO NOT SEEM POINT OPERATORS AND WORKERS A.RS IN AN APPARENT DEADLOCK DEAD-LOCK OVER SITUATION Meetings Are Being Held Daily In Order to Find If Possible, Means of Getting Men Back to Work Washington.-- All hope of getting the striking coal miners back to work this week was abandoned by admin istration leaders Sunday when the Joint conference of operators and miners adjourned in what appeared to be a hopeless deadlock. The rock upon which the conference again split was the fundamental point for which the miners are contending, contend-ing, namely, that the new contracts shall be based on the central competitive compe-titive field at once. The conference has not progressed in its deliberation beyond the consideration of the basis of settlement. The miners positively refuse to budge from their position in the matter of contract, insisting on interstate contract instead of independent inde-pendent district settlement. Sunday, however, there was a showdown show-down in both camps, the operators voting against conferences based on the central competitive field and the miners voting against the proposition of independent conferences in each district. At the close of the coference, Secretary Sec-retary of Commerce Hoover and Secretary Sec-retary of (Labor Davis issued this statement: "Upon suggestions for further separate sep-arate meetings of the operators and miners for further consideration of methods the conference adjourned. Immediately after adjournment the miners were called into executive session ses-sion by President John L. Lewis and remained behind closed doors for nearly two hours. The operators adjourned ad-journed to the roof of the Hotel Washington and both sides reviewed the deliberations to date. Whether or not the government has submitted a counter-proposition was not announced, nor was it denied. That there had been general discussion discus-sion of other ways and means to achieve the purpose of the conference was admitted. As Secretary of Davis left the Red Cross building he laughingly remarked that "both sides have voted on their own separate propositions and each hss rejected the others plan, so it is now) probable that Ihey can agren upon." That was the only note of optimism in Sunday's proceedings. The conference confer-ence was enlarged by the inclusion of Joseph (Purseglove, an independent operator who has been openly in favor fa-vor of a settlement on the interstate basis and James Morgan, district secretary sec-retary of the Wyoming district. Following ithe conference of miners' min-ers' representative it was reported that the miners contended that if they abandoned the question of contract they would weaken their cause. Only directly has the economic question Veen touched upon, both sides clinging timaciously to the question of settlement as being paramount. Action , by the conference to be binding on either side must be by unanimous vote. As organized, the operators have a slight numerical advantage ad-vantage in the conference, but this is not considered Important because of the necessity of unanimous action. The miners are also proceeding on the theory that another conference will follow in the event the conferences confer-ences succeeded in "devising the agency agen-cy for affecting a solution" of the problems, pro-blems, as President Ilanling expressed it A so-called independent group of operators, claiming to represent 20,-000,000 20,-000,000 tons production, forced the operators previously accredited to the conference to recognize them. |