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Show coal strike is i history of past! i STRIKE THAT OPENED APRIL 1 ENDS WHEN BOTH FACTIONS REACH NEW AGREEMENT Officials and Soft Coal Miners Sign Pact Which Again Opens Up Coal Mines in Many States; Men Rejoice Cleveland. An agreement ending the soft coal strike that has been in effect since April 1 was unanimously approved by officials and miners in jont conference here Tuesday. New York. -Agreement between operators and miners at Cleveland will result in a general acceptance of their terms throughout the coal mining industry, in-dustry, and a nation-wide end of the strike, notwithstanding the relatively small representation of the operators at the Cleveland conference, officials of the National association declared here Tuesday. Washington. Legislation by congress con-gress to regulate distribution and prices of coal during the winter was declared Tuesday by Secretary Hoover to be necessary even though operations opera-tions soon are to be started in the bituminous and authracite fields. The suspension of work in the coal fields now in the twentieth week has so lowered coal stock, Mr. Hoover said that not even immediate and reasonably full production will remove re-move the necessity of some measure of regulation during the next six months, when the coutry makes its greatest drain on coal supplies. The federal, coal distribution committee com-mittee the commerce secretary pointed point-ed out.is functioning with voluntary forces and as an emergency agency and hence cannot continue to direct distribution indefinitely. Mr. Hoover also saw the need of imposition of Lmo oiaLuiwij L during the winter or otherwise coal prices might become unduly high Price control by voluntary agreement, agree-ment, Mr. Hoover said has been successful suc-cessful in some districts, but in many districts of late individual operators have shown a tendacy to break away from the maximum fair price levels. Means of checking the price situation situa-tion resulting from competition between be-tween railroads and public utilities for fuel were considered Tuesday by federal fuel distributor Spencer and the Central coal committee. Officials said the committee was working towards to-wards a policy of more special priority pri-ority orders for coal shipments to railroads rail-roads and public utilities which would give such fuel movement a right of j way over coal moving under general priority. Blanket priority orders, it was announced, an-nounced, have been issued for the shipment of coal from the Alabama fields for the relief of railroads in the Southwest running out of St. Louis and lines in Illinois running out of Chcago. Discussions of the coal price situation situa-tion by the committee brought forth the belief that if the railroads could be assured of definite coal supplies a cessation of competitive bidding and the withdrawal of purchasng agents from the mine fields might be expected. ex-pected. National Troops Take Irish Territory |