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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTXAXP, XOTEMBEB 23, 1919. OPERATORS REJECT HEW PEACE OFFER Miners Willing to Accept Sec retary Wilson's Scale. ISSUE UP TO GARFIELD Both Sides Kow Waiting for Con ference of Administrator and , Government Ijegal Advisers. WASHrNGTOSr. Mot. 22. Refusing to accept proposals made by Secre tary Wilson as a basis for further ne gotiations, soft coal operators of the central competitive field rested their case today wltn Fuel Administrator Garfield, whose official approval Is necessary to validate any new wage agreement. The public would not stand for a wage advance above their offer of 15 centa a ton to coal diggers and 20 per cent to day laborers, operators as serted. They refused to make fur ther overtures even to reinstate their proposition, which was withdrawn following the deadlock Friday, unless the government, through the fuel ad ministration, assumed responsibility for the added burden to the nation's fuel bill. " The operators are prepared- to-leave the entire situation in the hands of the government unless Dr. -Garfield can find a way out of the difficulty, their spokesmen announced. G&rfleM Holds Off. Trt. Garfield notified the mlne-own-rs that he would not meet -their committee, of which Thomas T. Brews ter Is chairman, until after he has consulted Monday with Attorney-General' Palmer,. Director-General nines and Judge C. B. Ames, assistant attorney-general. - Dr. Garfield Is said to have told individual opera'tors that the offer made by them is aa large as present conditions justify.. John X. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, tonight charged the operators with criminal ly delaying "the' negotiations through a conspiracy" on the part of the "powerful interests," including both mine .owners and others, who. "have been openly opposing a settlement." IVilaon'a Proposal Accepted. . Following a two-hour session of the miners, Mr. Lewis announced that the workers had accepted , Secretary "Wilson's proposal.- This proposition, submitted Friday, as made public to day by Mr. Wilson, provided for an Increase in mining rates of 27.12 cents per ton, a fiat Increase in day wages of $1.68- and an increase-in yards and dead work of 31.61 per cent. Mr. Lewis also announced that the miners stood on their counter proposal for a seven-hour day, a Sat urday, half holiday and reference of all internal disputes back to the districts in which they originate for settlement. Some operators. Including1 members of the scale committee of the central competitive field, Mr. Lewis said, have indicated a willingness to make a separate "treaty of peace" without waiting for concerted action. He said he had agreed to sign -separate con tracts. Wilson Explains Scale. Explaining his suggested wage ad vances, Secretary Wilson said he based his calculations on an Increase of 79.8 per cent in the cost of living In three bituminous mining towns since December, 1914. Operators attacked Mr. Wilson's figures on the ground that from 80 to 90 per cent of mining In the central competitive field is by machinery. Calculated on a basis of machine mining, Mr. Wilson's proposal would mean a wage raise of 118 per cent, they said. The secretary's suggestion of 31.61 per cent Increase in the day wage would mean an increase over 191-1 of 131.7 per cent, they added. BISMARCK, N. D.. Nov. 23. The North Dakota supreme court today sustained the action of District Judge W. L. Nuessle of Bismarck in ordering Governor Lynn J. Frailer and Adjutant-General Fraser to immediately return to the private owners the lig nite coal mines which have been seized and operated by the state. Judge Kuessle'a order compels the state officials to relinquish their claim of the mines by 2 o'clock Mon day afternoon. The supreme court denied the application of William Lemke, vice-president of the Non- 1'artisan league, acting as counsel for Governor Frazier, for an injunction restraining Judge Nuessle from en forcing his order. EVERETT, Wash. Nov. '2!. Rail road division offices here have re ceived orders from northwest regional headquarters, ordering that without exception applications must be made for release of bituminous coal ship ments. No coal is to go to a com munity where there is a week's sup ply of fuel on hand, and no fuel dealer is to deliver coal to a householder who has a week s supply. tory response, but the effect Is the same. - It is admitted that the state depart ment is studying an estimate sub mitted by the war department as to the extent of the force necessary to bring Mexico into complete submis sion. This estimate-calls for an army of 450,000 men, but improved imple ments of . warfare developed In the late European struggle have reduced these requirements by at least one third. Incident Is Resented. The Washington government par ticularly resents the attempts of some Carranza officials to involve Jenkins in coHusion with the bandit, Cordoba, in his own kidnaping. The situation seems to call for an abject apology from the Carranza government as well as for the release of Jenkins. Jenkins being in captivity, an answer cannot be long awaited. But politics is everything in Wash ington, and with coal bins and EUgar bowls almost empty. International labor delegates picking up their be longings in a huff and Mexico invit ing a spanking, the average man here today could only see and applaud the challenge of Senator Lodge to the national administration to go to the people with the peace treaty. There is something ghoulish about the de sire of a majority of persons in the national capital to get a kick at the poor old document brought home from Versailles. Democrats Ready to Rebel. However, Mr. Wilson is not likely to have the opportunity to take the issue to the people. Some very prom inent members of his own. party are getting ready to rebel if he holds put much longer. What some democrats said In the senate the other day, it is admitted, would make splendid cam paign documents for the republicans. These leaders say that there is more danger in the attack of the repub licans on Mr. Wilson's dictatorial methods in negotiating the treaty for the United States than in the contents of the treaty Itself. Senator Brandagee of Connecticut piade a strong point when he brought to the attention of the senate shortly before the final hour of the treaty's rejection last Wednesday that Mr. Wilson had ample warning that the senate would never accept a treaty in such form. He put into the record the resolution signed by 39 republican senators. He said, that notwithstand ing this warning Mr. Wilson went to Paris and helped frame what he was told was not acceptable, depending on the Wilsonian powers of persuasion to secure approval. Wilson Supporters Silent. Apathy of the democratic .Side was obvious throughout , all. .of the last -days -of debate and time after lime supporters of- MK Wilson,-while re maining loyal to him, hardly lifted their voices loud enough to be heard by tile, reading clerk. Another disadvantage of such a po litical issue is that the long struggle in the senate has developed -some powerful and convincing orators on the republican side who would enjoy nothing better than to go before the country in a campaign free to talk nothing, but this one subject nearest their hearts. Representative ' MondelL majority leader in the house, was not Inclined today to niscuss the . Lodge concur rent resolution declaring the war at an end. He expressed some doubt of the wisdom or effectiveness of such course and indicated no disposition to press its passage in the house.- NEW CRISES LOOM IN U. S. (Continued From First Pae.y WOJilEX'S ' COMMITTEE NAMED Aid Will Be Given Republican Na tional Organization. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22. Red mond Benjamin, chairman of the re publican state central committee, to day announced appointment of an ex ecutive committee of the woman's division of the republican national organization by Will H. Hays, na tional chairman. Of this committee Miss Mary Garden Hay of New York is chairman and the committee in cluded Mrs. Thomas H. Carter, Mon tana, and Mrs. Josephine Corliss Pres ton, Washingtcn. In addition. Mr. Benjamin said, there will be designated a representative of the woman's division in each state, local directors, and the entire group constituting the woman's division ot the republican national committee will act with the national committee as an essential part of it in its activities. 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Is about to be become neces sary and it is understood that there is no hesitation on the part of the department of justice to go that far. It is believed that delay is due only to two or three members of the cabi net who are studying the political effects of such a move, and in the meantime praying for time to starve one side or the other Into submission. William B. Wilson, secretary of labor, is devoting all of his time and eiforts to bringing: about a" settle ment, but nr. liariield, recently stored as directing head of the fuel administration, is growing restless under tile delays. lie is Just the sort of a man to speak out and tell what is wrong. Of course, he must take orders from the government as rep resented in the cabinet, but the wobbling members of the cabinet would dread to have him put the'! flame on them in a public statement As to the operators, they will ac cent whatever the government, acting through rr. Garfield, says is fair and there will be no talking back. 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