Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1920-05-28 | Page 4 | President Warns Against Walkout

PRESIDENT WARNS AGAMALKQUT OPERATORS AND MINERS TOLD THERE MUST BE NO CLOSING OF THE MINES. Declares That if Joint Scale Committee Com-mittee Can Not Reach Agreement, Question in Dispute Must be Submitted to Commission. Washington. Anthracite operator and miners were warned by President Wilson on May 22 that there must be no strike in the anthracite coal fields Luring this critical period in the readjustment re-adjustment of the country. Writing to the members of the joint scale committee which has been 'conducting 'con-ducting negotiations for two months, the president said that if the com mittee should be unable to reach tin agreement he would insist that the question in dispute be submitted to the determination of a commission to lie appointed by him and that work be continued in the mines pending the decision of the commission. He added that the award to be made would be retroactive to April 1, the date of the expiration of the old agreement between be-tween the operators and miners. The president said he would hold himself in readiness to appoint a commission com-mission "similarly constituted to the one which I recently appointed in connection con-nection with the bituminous mining industry, as soon as I learn that both sides have signified their willingness to continue at work and abide by its decisions." J