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Show EOVERNMENT WILL STOP C STRIKE 6HOULD STRIKE BE CALLED DN SEPTEMBER FIRST, DRASTIC ACTION WILL BE TAKEN Notices Are Sent Out to Effect That Men Must Not Walk Out; Coolidge Holds Long Conference Swampscott, Mass. The government will take a Land in the anthracite coal field wage negotiations should an agreement not be reached and a strike be called on September 1. The program which the government will pursue in the event of a strike was discussed at a three-hour conference confer-ence here by President Coolidge and Secretary Davis. The specific plan of the government was not disclosed. Secretary Davis ventured no opinion as to the outcome out-come of the wage negotiations now under way. He pointed out, however, that the department of labor, through two meditators, was keeping in close touch with the discussion of the operators op-erators and the miners and was hoping hop-ing that an agreement would be reached before the present wage con- j tracts expire on August 31. Secretary Davis came to White Court to discuss several department, matter before sailing for England, but the coal situation received particular par-ticular emphasis during his conference confer-ence with the executive. There was no hint by the president of the plan of procedure of the government gov-ernment in case a strike is called. Mr. Davis will, however, return to this country on August 25, a week before the expiration of the present wage agreement in the anthracite field. ,The secretary expects to study industrial in-dustrial conditions in England, a study interrupted two years ago, when he was called back by the death of President Harding. |