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Show DIRECT ACTION MAY END COAL STRIKE INJUNCTIONS WILL BE SOUGHT AGAINST STRIKE LEADERS IN BITUMINOUS REGIONS. Unscrupulous Operators Who Take Advantage of Present Crisis to Raise Prices are to be Dealt Witii by the Government. Washington. The government has determined upon '"direct action" to end the coal strike by carrying its tight to avert a fuel famine into the individual indi-vidual states affected by the walkout. Injunctions similar to that obtained at Indianapolis, restraining the national nation-al representatives of the mine workers from strike activities will be sought by the attorney general against local leaders and agitators In the bituminous regions involved in the strike. Attorney Attor-ney Genera! Palmer has addressed a telegram (o all the United Slates district dis-trict attorneys In the country to report re-port Immediately any action "by two or more persons" to carry forward the strike. These reports will be made the basis of the new injunction suits planned by the attorney general. Cognizance of unscrupulous operators opera-tors and dealers who take the present crisis as an opportunity to profiteer Is taken in the attorney general's telegram. tele-gram. They are not to be spared, he declares war prices of coal have been restored and they are to be rigidly observed, ob-served, his instruction rend. Labor does not contemplate any general gen-eral strike nor sympathetic strike because be-cause of its repugnance against the action of the federal government in seeking an injunction at Indianapolis to prevent the coal strike, it was learned authoritatively Saturday at the American Federation of Labor. |