Show PRESIDENT ARNS S I AGAINST WALKOUT OPERATORS AND MINERS TOLD THERE MUST BE NO CLOSING OF THE MINES I Declares That That- If Joint Scale Committee Com Corn Can Not Reach Agreement Question In Dispute Must be Submitted to Commission Wash Ington An te opera operators tors and miners were warned by President Wilson on oa May 22 that there must be beno beno no strike In the tIme anthracite coal fields i tIring this critical period in the readjustment readjustment re rc- re- re adjustment of the country Writing to the members of the joint scale committee which has Imas been conducting conducting conducting con con- ducting negotiations for two months the president said that If Jf the committee committee com corn should be unable to reach an agreement he ime would Insist that the question in dispute be submitted to the determination of a commission to be appointed by him and that work be continued in the mines pending the decision of the commission He added that the award to be made would be retroactive to April 1 the date of the expiration of the time old agreement between between between be be- tween the operators and miners The president said he would hold himself In readiness to appoint a commission commission com corn mission similarly constituted 1 to the theone theone theone one which I recently appointed 1 in connection connection connection con con- with the time bituminous mining industry a as soon as I learn that both sides have hae signified their willingness to continue at work and abide by Its decisions |