The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-10-24
ARBITRATION BOARD IS NAMED
WILL CONSIDER AND PASS UPON
ALL QUESTIONS At
ISSUE.
MINING TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK
MITCHELL WILL TAKE IMMEDIATE
MEASURES TO CALL THE
STRIKE OFF.

thracite coal strike is settled at last.
A commission of six persons, with a
seventh, Mr.. Carroll D. Wright as re-
corder, will adjust differences between
the operators and miners. President
Mitchell of the miners union will take
the necessary measures to call the
strike off. The president will urge i'm
mediate resumption of mining and op-
orators are expected to begin next
next week.
Announcement that the great strike
was off was made by Secretary Root
with exurberant good humor at the
White House shortly after / o'clock
this morning. Organized labor has a
representative on the commission in
the person of E. E. Clark, grand chief
of the Order of Railway conductors,
named as sociologist. The president
added Bishop Spalding of Illinois to
the list of the commission. He is per-
fectly satisfactory to both miners and
operators.
Assent Of the Miners
was given through President Mitchell
and Sargent, commissioner of immi-
grafton, and of the operators through
Messrs Robert Bacon and George w.
Perkins of the banking firm of J. P.
Morgan & Co. The final outcome fol-
lowed series of conferences, begin
ming with two during the day with NJ.
Mitchell and two during the night
with Messrs Bacon and Perkins.
Events moved quickly at the last, the
president being determined on a
speedy settlement. The commission
will assemble in a few days and
choose chairmans probably Gen. Will
son. 1t then will arrange for sessions
and testimony.
The following official statement an
nouncing the close of the strike was
issued at the White House at 2:20
a. M:
After a confereL &c with Mr.. Mitch
ell and some further conference with
representatives of the coal operators,
the president has appointed the mem.
bers of the commission to inquire into,
consider, and
Pass Upon All Questions
at issue between the operators and
miners in the anthracite coal fields:
Brig. Gen. john M. Wilson, United
States army, retired, late chief of en-
gineers, U. S. A.; Mr.. E. w. Parker,
Washington, D. c., as an expert min
ing engineer; Hon. George Gray, Will
mington, Del, as a judge of the United
States court; Mr.. E. e. Clark. Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, grand chief of the Order
of Railway conductors. as sociolo-
gist; Mr.. Thomas H. Watkins, Scran-
ton, Pa, as man practically &C.
Quainted with the mining and selling
of coal; Bishop John l.. Spalding of
Peoria, III. The president has added
Bishop Spalding's name to the COM
mission. de .-
HEn. Carroll D. Wright has been ap.
pointed as recorder of the commission
Convention Must Be Called.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 17.-President
Mitchell was informed of the news
from Washington, and when asked for
a statement made the positive state.
ment that a delegate convention must
first pass upon the question of calling
off the strike. From the calling of the
convention to it's adjournment is only
a matter of three or four days. There
is hardly any doubt that a convention
| will stand by any agreement he has
made with President Roosevelt.
Later-When Mr.. Mitchell learned
the personnel of the commission and
! was asked for a further statement he
replied that he would have nothing
| further TO say until morning.