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Show PRESIDENT ASKS FOR COAL PROBE ACTION FOLLOWS REQUEST OF MINERS FOR REOPENING OF ... WAGE QUESTION. Stand Is Taken by Chief Executive ' . That Anthracite Miners Are-Morally Are-Morally Bound to Accept Report of Commission. Washington. President Wilson has asked Secretary of Labor Wilson to make an Investigation Into the situation situa-tion in the anthracite coal fields. The action was taken in response to a telegraphic tele-graphic request from the United Mine Workers of America that the wage . scale deliberations be reopened. It was estimated that a demand for : wage increase In addition to those granted by the anthracite commission will be filed. ' As the president has already taken the stand that the anthracite miners are morally bound to accept the recent report of the commission, his action is regarded as significant. . In answering the anthracite miners' original threat to ".go on vacation" if ; the report of the commission was ac-'cepted, ac-'cepted, Mr. Wilson expressed the belief be-lief that the entire principle of collective collec-tive bargaining depended on the observance ob-servance of contracts by the miners. It is understood that the president is now seeking information from the department de-partment of labor preparatory to definite defi-nite action. This may take the form of proclamation on the principle of collective col-lective bargaining as it affects work-inginen work-inginen in all lines. The White House-refused House-refused to give an intimation of its plans. |