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Show STRIKE BREWS ML FIELD COMMISSION ASKED TO RUSH RE. I PORT FOR USE IN CONFER- I ENCE OVER CONTRACT Opponents of John L. Lewis In Miners' Union Believed Behind Strike Move; Harding Hard-ing Notified Washington. The coal commission is rushing to completion its report on wages, profits and costs in anthracite anthra-cite mining, in order that its findings may be brought to bear in a labor situation of increasing intensity now arising in the industry. Miners' wage contracts expire August 31 and a strike is threatened unless negotiations for replacement are successful. In recent union elections elec-tions supporters of John L. Lewis, present national head of the United Mine Workers, have met with a sharp defeat, and it is considered certain that when delegates of anthracite workers meet June 2C to frame new wage demands the element newly come to dominance in the official circles of the unions will at least set out to gain substantial wage advances. ad-vances. The commission is required to make a report by July 1 to aid in the wage negotiations. President Harding was advised of inpending danger to the anthracite supply just before leaving for the West and he wrote a letter to John Hays Hammond, chairman of the commission, stressing the necessity of keeping the mineB in operation. |