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Show FAIL TO AGREE Oil WAGE FOR MINERS CONFERENCE CALLED BY PRESIDENT PRESI-DENT WILSON UNABLE TO FEACH SETTLEMENT. Coal Situation Now Up to Chief Executive, Exec-utive, Both Operators and Miners Reporting That Conference Has Proved a Failure. Cleveland, O. Miners attending a conference of the joint scale committee commit-tee of the central "competitive field held a policy meeting on Thursday, following failure of the joint conference confer-ence to agree on the miners' demands for increased wages, and adjourned sine die after voting unanimously that miners in each of the four states concerned con-cerned will seek to make a supplemental supplemen-tal and separate agreement with oper ators in the field. This practically disrupts the central field as a basing point. Inasmuch as the joint conference was called by President Wilson, operators oper-ators and miners sent separate telegrams tele-grams to the president advising him of the failure to reach an agreement. The telegram sent by the operators was a statement of the fact that the Joint conference had failed to adjust the controversy after five days of almost al-most continuous conference. The miners' telegram was optimistic optimis-tic in tone, saying the miners would endeavor to make separate and individual indi-vidual agreements with the operators in the various states. "We have found it impossible to reach an agreement with the coal operators of the central competitive field bearing upon the issues involved," in-volved," the miners' telegram, signed by President Lewis, said. "There is no controversy affecting any principle, princi-ple, but merely a difference of opinion opin-ion as to what constitutes an inequality inequal-ity and the degree to which it should be adjusted. |
