Show PROMPT ACTION I ON STATUS OF I i MINERS URGED i S Committee Asks Further Probe i of Labor Status in ina 7 Coal Fields a WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dec 21 UP UP UP-lm Im S mediate action to settle the status o of miners who went on strike and md a amore amore 1 more thorough Investigation of ot alleged al aI- I labor abuses in the anthracite fields were recommended to the na na- na- na labor board by a committee asI assigned assigned as as- I signed to collect coIled information regardIng regard regard- I Ing anthracite strike disturbances of 1 recent The report of the fact finding comI com corn released for publication today I presented a picture of ot wide distress in the anthracite region and the possibility possibility of turbulent times ahead unless some degree of stability is restored to present chaotic conditions Further Farther Inquiry The committee rep reported jt It was un unable unable able to go into complaints as extensively exten extensively as should be done The report recommended that further furth-er investigation tion lion lasting over a R period of months be undertaken by a representative strOUD empowered red to tar thc e disciplinary action 1 if necessary necessary The proposed investigation would be conducted b by a group composed of representatives of the operators the mine workers and outside members memo mem bers bars agreed agreed- upon by the other two parties or named by the n national labor la Ja bor ber board S Such a body should begin its Investigation In Investigation in- in the report stated with witha a pledge by the interested groups by which it was constituted that its findIngs findings find find- ings would be accepted and i if it it should bould develop that there are practices practices tices on the part of the operators or oron oron oron on the part o of ot representatives of the mine workers of the character alleged by y the complainant such practices would be elin eliminated and those responsible sible ible would be disciplined Committee Per Personnel The fact finding committee was composed of Charles P. P Neill Dr Hugh Hanna and Elmer F. F Andrews It lIt is the belief the report said both of the operators and representative representative citizens of ot both Scranton and Wilkes Barre that if another strike call all should be issued the same thing would happen and that thousands of the he unemployed would force the shutting shutting shut- shut ting ing down of or the mines and precipitate tate ate the same conditions of ot riot turbulence tur tur- and bloodshed that marked previous strikes |