A Temporary Lull

John J. Cornwell, former Gover nor of West Virginia, told the National Association of Manufacturers that it would not be long before the United Mine Workers would demand nationalization of the coal mines. He asserted that they would not be satisfied with the recommendations of the so-called Fact Finding Commission, unless it also demanded nationalization of mines. At the convention of miners at Cleveland in 1919 the demand for nationalization of the coal mines was voiced formally for the first time. He declared that we are now only in a " temporary lull" of the coal war and that it was only for " strategic reasons" that John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers had not pressed the demand.

The Coal Commission has conferred with the mine operators and is to meet Mr. Lewis soon. The wage agreement of the anthracite miners expires on August 31. Already the district boards of anthracite miners have called a convention at Scranton, Pa., on June 26, to formulate the demands they will make at that time.