Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-10-24
COAL STRIKE ENDS
CONFERENCES IN WASHINGTON
=; RESULT IN ACTION BY
ROOSEVELT.

Six Commissioners Named by the
/! President to Act as an Arbitration
Board and Adjust the Differences
Between the Winners and the Opera
tors-Labor Given a Representative
In the Person Of e. e. Clark.
Washington, Oct. 16.-The great an
4kracite 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 inn
mediate resumption Of mining and
operations are expected to begin next
week.
Announcement that the great strike
was of was made by Secretary Root
with exuberant good humor at the
White House shortly after l o'clock.
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 So
biologist. The president added Bishop
Spalding of Illinois to the list of the
f3vo v,,ovnhorc o1,o0oc%o1 nv tho 0p~r.
ators. AS named, the commission H.
perfectly satisfactory to both miners
and operators. Assent of the miners
was given through President Mitchell
and F. P. Sargent, commissioner OF
immigration, and of the operators
through Messrs. Robert Bacon and
George w. Perkins of the banking firm
of J. P. Morgan & Co. The final out
come followed series of conferences,
beginning with two during the day
with Mr.. 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 few days and choose
a chairman, probably General Wilson,
It will then arrange for sessions and
testimony.
Official Statement.
Following is the official statement
given out by Secretary Cortelyou:
After conference with Mr.. Mitchell
and some further conferences 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 fields: Brig
adler General John M. Wilson, retir
ed Qate chief of engineers, U. S. A.
Washington, D. c., as an officer of the
engineer corps of either the military
or naval service of the United States
Mr.. E. w. Parker, Washington, D
c.. as an expert mining e snPsgi{H}sffcian 81
-, VT Iv.!5 division of The United States
geological survey and the editor of the
Engineering and Mining Journal Of
New York.
Hon. George Gray, Wilmington, Del.
as Judge of the United States court
Mr.. E. E. Clark, Cedar Rapids, Ia
grand chief of the Order of Railway
Conductors, as a sociologist, the pres
ident assuming that for the purpose
of such commission the term socio
logist means man who has thought
and studied deeply on social question.
and has practically applied his knowl
edge.
Mr.. Thomas H. Watkins, Scranton
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with the mining and selling of coal.
Bishop John l.. Spaulding of Peoria
Ill. The president has added Bishop
Spaulding's name to the commission
Hon. Carroll D. Wright has beer
appointed recorder of the commission