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Description: Another Effort Being Made For An Agreement;
Cabinet Again Considers Wm. O. Jenkins Case;
Large Amount of Money Is Required to Overhaul Ships
Newspaper published in: Huntsville, AL
Source: Library
Page/Column: Page 1, Columns 5,6; Page 8, Column 5
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ANOTHER EFFORT BEING MADE FOR AN AGREEMENT
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By The Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Nov. 26 – Another effort to agree on a basis for computing the wage advances to the bituminous coal miners was made today by President Wilson’s cabinet, while the operators and the miners marked time in their negotiations for a new wage scale.
In the meantime, so many of the miners over the country had remained on a strike that the coal situation has reached what the officials described as a “national crisis.” Steps to meet the situation until something like normal production had been restored were under consideration by the fuel administration’s central coal committee, with an order prohibiting the manufacture of coke designed as the first move in the nation-wide campaign.
The controversy in the cabinet centered around the proposals of Fuel Administrator Garfield that in computing the wage increases the advances made to all of the miners in the central competitive field were to be taken into consideration, and of Secretary Wilson that the increase to pick miners be the basis.
Mr. Wilson’s proposal was supported today by Mr. John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers, who said that the calculation of the wage advance since 1913 should be based on the rates throughout the country and not merely in the central competitive field.
The statistics compiled by the state labor departments, Mr. Lewis said, show that only twenty seven per cent of the employees in the central field are day laborers, instead of forty per cent as was claimed by the operators.
Replying to the position of the operators that the 1.10 per day increase in wages awarded the day laborers in 1917 should be given equal weight with the other wage advances in computing the average wage increase, Mr. Lewis said that this award was made to put the day workers on a parity with the men on a tonnage basis, and should not be included n any of the averages.
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CABINET AGAIN CONSIDERS WM. O. JENKINS CASE
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By The Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Nov. 26 – The cabinet today again was to consider the Mexican situation and the case of Mr. William O. Jenkins, the American consular agent held in jail at Puebla in connection with his recent abduction by the bandits.
The refusal of the judge considering the Jenkins case to hear the testimony of three persons from Center Lucia, who declared as untrue the report circulated by the Mexican officials that Mr. Jenkins had been seen there with Frederico Cordova, the rebel leader who kidnapped him, has created a feeling of hostility among the people of Puebla, according to El Universal of Mexico City, a copy of which was received at Washington today.
The newspaper says that the Jenkins case is daily becoming more complicated, and that public opinion is divided and also that the silence of the judicial authorities has greatly contributed to the dissatisfied sentiment among the people. It also says that all of the information given out by the court for publication is contradictory to the evidence given by Jenkins under oath.
El Universal says that public indignation was expressed at the detention of Florentine Anayah, an employee of Jenkins, who was known in Puebla as an mo__sive old Indian. Because of this public feeling the paper adds, the court sentence Anayah to a five days’ imprisonment for an alleged infraction of the police regulations, but that it appeared the sentence was imposed because the police inspector desired to present the Indian before the court to testify against Mr. Jenkins.
His evidence was finally taken in secret.
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LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY IS REQUIRED TO OVERHAUL SHIPS
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By The Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Nov. 26 – The efficiency of many ships of the navy has been reduced by continuous operation during the war without the usual overhauling, and a large expenditure of money will be required to put them in repairs, Rear Admiral R. S. Griffin, the chief of the bureau of steam engineering, said today in his annual report.
The propelling machinery, particularly, suffered the report said, but owing to the expert service performed by the navy’s repair ship, not a single combatant ship was withdrawn from the service during the war, unless repairs were previously scheduled.