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Show HARDING MINE PLAN OPPOSED American Mining Congress Says Scheme Would Be Ruinous WASHINGTON". July 14. President 'Harding's proposal for arbitrallon In the coal mining Industry in effect acts V Bet aside the law of supply and demand de-mand which "must eventually regulate all Industrial disputes." the American Mining congress declared In a statement state-ment sent to lh S bite H011.se Thursday Thurs-day and made public through James K. fallbrcath. secretary of the orgun-i7-;itlon. "Re-opening of mines now on Strike except upon a competitive basis, with non-union inoperntlon would bo ruin-1 ruin-1 js." the statement said. "Moreover such operation at high wage levels would create great dissatisfaction ambng the non-union mines undoubtedly undoubt-edly iadln to strikes and thus cutting cut-ting off the only reliable source of fuel. The proposal to open coal mlnos at the war scale of wages may seem temporary but in effect it would be perma nent . ' WKi i iu: OF N n io. Stating that the mining companies did not attempt to speak for tho coal Industry, but that it did reprenont the groat western mining Industry. SsV Callbreath said that the congress considered con-sidered that "the nation's welfare demands de-mands competitive wage scales as the result Ot .actual bargaining. rather 1 ban a settlement induced by a suffering suf-fering public helpless under the lntlm- idatlon of and entirely for the benefit bene-fit of men united under tho banner of the United Mine Workers of America. Am-erica. "It would be criminal," the statement state-ment continued, ' if the non-union operators op-erators and miners who have enabled our Industries to continue, should now be sacrificed by a governmental order. or-der. wot T.o f:.vt mbnaoe. ' A govcrniiientnl guarantee of protection pro-tection to every Individual in his rlcht to work will settle the coal s'.rike menace for all time. We appeal for the enforcement ol thi law under the constitution and for protection of Independent In-dependent workers By no other plan ran a permanent settlement bo secured secur-ed The American Mining Congress asks In the name of tho best, interests inter-ests of tho nation that group domination domina-tion through force shall not he permitted, per-mitted, that those responsible or acts leading to outrage and murder shall be held re.sponslble 00 |