Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-01-10 | Page 1 | Coal Operators Discuss Course

COAL OPERATORS 5 COURSE Refusal to Accept l Wilson Commission May lay Be Plan Decided Upon D B Hr A d rr Washington ton Jan 0 Tho Tho policy of or orthe the time bituminous coal operators In the tho settlement of oC the coal strike Issues and the attitude e to bo ho assumed toward the commission lon of three appointed b by President Wilson to Investigate atc wa wages cs and prices was considered erell to today a at nt a meeting here of or the tIme wage scale committee committee com corn of oC the central competitive e field which was preliminary to the opening Monday of the commissions commission's hearings at which both miners an and operators will appear It was vms learned that refusal to ac accept accept no- no the commission as now nOv constituted was advocated ad b by some Rome of oC tho the operators operators operators opera opera- tors who have ha heretofore publicly charged that tho time hod body would begin Its work ork with commitments Should G c Attil Attitude mimic Most of tho time operators agreed that a declaration of oC their stand should bo be o mado mache before the work o of the tho commission commis commis- don sion gets ct under wa way That this declaration would be Le either oRber oRb eith er flat refusal to deal with tho the present pres pres- enl cut commission or a statement of or the operators' operators willingness to operate co-operate with reservations appeared probable proba proba- ble blo tonight in n opposing the commission commis commis- lIon sion as organized with one representative for each the miners operators and the time public some seine of or the thc operators argued that an Impartial tribunal allor all of or the members of or h h would represent sent the public would bo ho more satis satis- fact factor factory o ry n t In II orr Fn 0 rl l Another course favored fn by some of the mine maine owners was was was-to to furnish the commission whatever information It might t ask but bul with th the lie expressed un- un that th the operators would not consider themselves R bound b by the conclusions of the th lon Tho The position of tIme the op operators outside the time competitive C field In th the proposed d settlement also is 18 doubtful It wa was wag as asserted nl as- f b by F. F W. W Lukins of Kansas City president of oC the time Southwestern Interstate Interstate Inter Inter- state Coal Coat Operators Operators' association The Time attitude of or the coal operators outside tho the central field will be considered to to- to morrow