Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1919 — EIGHTY PER CENT OF MINERS HAVE RETURNED TO WORK. [ARTICLE]

EIGHTY PER CENT OF MINERS HAVE RETURNED TO WORK.

Washington, Dec. 15.—Restrictions on the consumption of bituminous coal continued to go by the board today, as the railroad administration, now in charge of the distribution of supplies, received reports indicating that eighty per cent of the striking miners had returned to work. Orders were issued by Director General Hines allowing bunker coal to he supplied to foreign owned vessels in American harbors Whenever the coal supply is sufficient to fill the requirements of cowatwise and American owned vessels. Foreign ships had their coal supply shut off early in the coal crisis. Senatorial investigation of the strike settlement proposal offered by the government and accepted by the miners was temporarily halted today, while Chairman Frelinghuysen, and members of the investigating sUb-committee considered the policy to be adopted. It was said after a long executive session that the committee had not decided as to whether it would formally demaAd documents in the possession of Dr. Harry A. Garfield, former fuel administrator, who resigned because of his disagreement with the settlement proposals, or as to whether Attorney General Palmer and other officials would be called.