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Show COAL STRIKE SEEMS CERTAIN 500,000 Workers WITT Be in Line When Final Walk Out Is Called Indianapolis, Ind Officers of the United Mine Workers saw little chance Monday of averting a strike vote among the 500,000 union coal miners as a weapon to enforce their wage scale demands. i Mine owners are expected to take a- more determined stand than ever against negotiating an Interestate wage agreement In view for the six-hour day and five-day week policy formulated formu-lated at the miners' convention'. It was learned the operators were at the point of entering a conference a the basis of the scale committee's recommendations, which called for an eight-hour day underground fihft retention re-tention of the present basic 'ft'is ftmong other tilings. ' But the conventions" action in re-Jectng re-Jectng the eight-hour day proposal left an nlr of uncertainty as to what the outcome will be. President John L. Lewis was drafting draft-ing a second Invitation asking the operators to meet union representatives representa-tives before the contract expires at midnight, March 31. He says their refusal thus for violates a provision of the agreement Bigned in 1010. |