Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-21
COAL STRIKE At END
Men to Return to Work
Thursday Morning.
VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVEN-
TIoN HARMONIOUS.
Where Men Are Needed for Prelimin-
ary Work They May Re
turn at Once.
VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS
Special From a STAFF Correspondent.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, October
2I.-The miners convention today
adopted resolution to go back to
work Thursday next at 7 am. and
then adjourned sine die.
One could not fail to be impressed by the
tone of self-sacrifice and devotion to
principle and conservatism which marked
the opening of the miners convention
this morning. While awaiting the re-
port OF the committee on resolutions,
the convention listened to desutory
speeches by delegates. All of them
Showed a notab BILE disposition to accept ar
bitration and to return to work, waiving
the question of finding places for the dis
placed union firemen and engineers.
The information was given by one dele
gate that he had received intimation from
his employers that if the men came back
places would gradually be provided for the
old men. This announcement was loudly
cheered
There was entire absence of bitterness
order. Mr.. Mitchell presided and passed
upon one or two delicate points with par
Namentary tact. The committee on resolu-
tions was a little tardy and after q few
speeches the convention amused itself and
shut out possibility of rancorous talk by
singing songs.
When the committee on resolutions
brought in a resolution to return to work
next Thursday, there were loud cheers and
call for THE question"
Mitchell Against Haste.
But John Mitchell, anxious to avoid the
charge of overhaste, announced that every
man who wanted to talk should have the
right to talk
After one or two mutterings of discomfort
from the firemen and engineers had been
heard National Secretary Wilson took the
stage and gave the men some strong ad-
vice in favor of returning to work, claiming
that all would come right in the end. and
that organized labor had won a signal VIC
fory.
If you turn down a proposition made In
good faith by the President of the United
States said Mr.. Wilson, do you think the
people will continue to support you until
you can have everything your own way?"
He said refusal of this proposition would
lead to loss of confidence in the miners
by the American people.
An interesting feature of the convention
was the addressing of the foreign delegates
In their own tongue by speakers explaining
the terms of the proposition. The PROPOSE
tion subsequently was explained in three
dlHerent languages by as many speakers
Scanning the English text of the resolution
the speakers laboriously translated 1t into
the Slav dialect, punctuatng the para
graphs with gestures
Occasionally some foreigner would inter
rupt from the floor and a volley of ex-
citable questions, answers and gesticula-
tions would pass between speaker and in
terrogator.
Funny Incidents of the Meeting.
After one of these passages the orator
turned to John Mitchell and said In broken
English: Dat fellow want to know how
much he gets when he gets back to work
tell him, Never mind that; you go back
30 work und dose urbitrators dev tell Won
iater now much you gets 1 don't know
You don't know, nobody don't know and
he grunts An right, and sits down"
During the translatons of the resolution
10 the foreigners the English-speaking del
egates gave respectful attention One of
the Polish speakers branched off into pol
ftics. when a young Irishman who under
stood the lingo called him down In a most
beautiful brogue and insisted that the
Dpeaker stick to business. So that speaker
Retired, and a squarejawed, stolid-featured
young miner took the stage to explain the
game in the Hungarian language
The Italian delegates had an exclamation
rom young man who might well have
posed as successful tenor in grand opera
and the liquid vowels rippled out over the
nall In contrast to the harsh gutturals of
the Slav speakers. swarthy Neapolitan
jumped up In the back of the hall and ex-
eitedly fired volley of questions and ges-
lures at the speaker. The young speaker
smoothed him down in oily tones and the
Neapolitan subsided. The speaker then ex-
planned In English that the interrupter
wanted the arbitrators to decide before the
men went back to work, but he had ex-
planned that the men must work while the
arbitrators worked.
Speaker Accused of Treachery.
The foreigner shouted that the speaker
was advising the Italians not to go to
work, Mitchell seemed puzzled for a mo-
clent, but dozen men said the Italian was
not so advising his countrymen
John Mitchell said to the audience he
thought the board of arbitration would
render decision within one month The
report OF the committee resolutions was
adopted without single dissenting vote
and amid wild enthusiasm Resolutions OF
thanks to the public and the press were
adopted. The only reference to politics
was an expression of gratitude to the rep
resenta:tves Of national state and munich
pa governments. N. o. NJ.
BY UNANIMOUS VOTE.