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Show THE COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE. Operators and Miners Discuss Central Field Conditions. Washington. Coal miners and operators oper-ators meeting Saturday could not unite upon the proposal of Secretary Wilson Wil-son to negotiate a nation-wide agreement, agree-ment, but did unite upon a plan to negotiate ne-gotiate an agreement covering t lie mines in the central competitive fields of western Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Meanwhile the mine owners of the outlying fields went into a separate conference to determine how far the central territory's scale agreement, if negotiated, would serve as a basis for agreement in their respective fields. |