WASHINGTON--John L. Lewis' hopes of by-passing the War Labor Board in the United Mine Workers' coal wage dispute by dealing directly with Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes were blasted tonight when Ickes notified him that the WLB must be the sole and final arbiter.
This notice, contained in an open letter to Lewis at New York, set the stage once more for a head-on clash between WLB and the mine chieftain. That collision seemed inevitable Monday, but was temporarily averted when Lewis accepted Ickes' re-entry into the controversy at the very time the board had sought to have it out with Lewis once and for all.
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