Show UTAH MINE PAY ORDER WASHINGTON Sept 21 lP- lP William H. H Davis chairman of the war labor board asserted Thursday that the board was not going to tie its hands behind its back and never approve any wage wn-e increase of more than the 15 per percent percent percent cent laid down in its Little Steel formula The chairman made the statement statement statement state state- ment during arguments on a mediation mediation mediation me me- panels panel's report recommending recommend recommend- ing wage increases of 1 a day for copper lead and zinc miners in Idaho and Utah and smelter workers in those states and Washington Burton A. A Zorn counsel for the American Smelting and Refining Refining Refining ing company argued the mining and smelting companies already had granted increases equal to those in the Little Steel case Davis declared that if f the board should say it never would approve a wage increase of more than 15 per cent it would in effect freeze wages wag at that level The war labor board Davis added is not going to tie tic its hands behind its back by any such action The panel majority in its report recommended the 1 51 a day increase I to stop migration of worl workers ers to better paying jobs bs |