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Show WILSON ''Obtaining Information 1 for Basis d Wages and Prices i j i I WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 Informa tion for establishing a basis of wages and price., in the bituminous coal in ' duatry will bo obtained by the three! ciimmissioners appointed by President Wilson to represent the public, miners and operaiors ai hearings to be held in J ;i Mil (ill ui' I II 1 1 1 11 January U. Representatives of operators and miners in the central competitive fields have been invited to present their cases on that date. In the meantime mean-time the commission will collect available avail-able data from t lie goernmental departments, de-partments, which have investigated the soft coal industry The delay in the opening of the (hearings, the commission said, was due to a desire to permit the miners to complete the vork of their special con-I con-I vention called to meet in Columbus O., January 5. : After preparing the way for bi gin-nin? gin-nin? its investisation the president's commission adjourned its session i Rembrandt Peale, reproenting the operators, op-erators, an.i John P. White, representing represent-ing the miners, left for their homes to spend the holidays, but Henry M. Rob inson, represeniing the public, remained remain-ed to -iiKle the preliminary work. Assistants already have assembled statistical data but public hearings will not besin until Janu&rj 1-'. Tentatively the commission has decided de-cided not to assemble is facts by calling call-ing coal miners and coal operators in i" in lo testify at hearings, and it also has ib i ide-rj not to visit the prin-jcipai prin-jcipai coal minine; centers. Insle.irl i. will DanH rnt fnvmnl in quiries to representative coal mining j concerns in all districts asking for cose sheets covering operations, in 1 1 91 D These will be analyzed with the assistance of the federal trade com mission and othei governmental bodies and mining engineers. When this data has all been assem bled, the representatives of the miners and of the operators in each field will be called in to present then arguments in open bearings. The central com petuhe district will be the first so dealt with, but the other fields will be de.'.b with in like manner so that the commission's decision will bej made in the li-ht of a national rather, than a sectional study of the facts. |