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Show PRESIDENT WARNS AGAINSTWALKOUT: OPERATORS AND MINERS TOLD THERE MUST BE NO CLOSING OF THE MINES. Declares That if Joint Scale Com- j mittee Can Not Reach Agreement, Question in Dispute Mu6t be Submitted to Commission. V:r. Illusion.- A n 1 hrari I e oM-niluis iiihI i r i i i i i s ui-iv vv r i i i i I by J 'i'i-il f -n t W'il.-dii on .May Unit llii i'e must bo no .-li-iKi- in lb,- aiilliracili' coal fields Lining Ibis i-i'iiiral ri'ioi in Hie re-ud.iusl re-ud.iusl Mien L of I Ik; conn I r. . U'riling to tin; iiioiiili'TS of tin; joint Hc-alo (-mini 1 1 m ubirb lias lei-n con-ilnclin con-ilnclin iicgol ial ions for Lvo inonllis, Ilic liii-siiiciil, said Unit if I In; com-inilti-i; should Ik; unable to reach an agreement lit; would insist that the iiieslion in (lisiuli- be submitted to the tleleniiiinition of a commission to be upliolnled by him and that work ho coiilinueil in tin; mines pending tha derision of Hit; commission. Jle added '.hat ilit; award to bo made would be retroarl ivr to April 1, the date of the fxplratioM of tilt; old agreement be-twron be-twron Hit; operator ami miners. The president said he would hold himself in readiness to appoint a commission com-mission ".similarly constituted to the om; which I recently appointed in connection con-nection wilh the bituminous mining industry, as soon a.s I learn- that both sides have signified their willingness to conl inue at work and abide by its derisions." |