The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-13
MINERS CASE PREPARED
MITCHELL WILL SUBMIT VERY
THOROUGH STATEMENT.
Evidence Collected by Him Votumin-
Gus aud Covers Every Possible Point
That May be Raised When the Arbi-
tration Commission Meets Friday
Mitchell Declines to discuss Opera
tors Replies.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Nov. 12.-There was
busy time at the miners headquar-
ters to-day. President Mitchell was
holding conferences all day with dele
cations of miners, his lawyers and
members of the executive boards of the
United Mine Workers. The case of the
miners, which will be submitted to the
arbitration commission, which meets at
Scranton Friday, was gone over care
fully by the executive heads of the
miners union, the attorneys and the
expert miners who were summoned
here especially for that purpose. Dis
trict President Fahy, with delegation
of ten miners from Shamokin, arrived
the condition of mining in their region
was taken down by the lawyers.
The evidence collected by President
Mitchell in behalf of the miners is vol
luminous and covers every possible
point that may be raised when the
commission sits. President Mitchell
and his official family will remove to
Scranton tomorrow. President Mitch
ell and the other executive officers of
the miners union declined to discuss
the replies of the presidents of the coal
carrying roads to the statement filed
for the miners with the arbitration
commission.
Scranton, Pa, Nov. 12-Commis-
sioner of Labor Carroll D. Wright and
his assistant recorders of the mine
strike commission together with the
official stenographers arrived here to-
night from Washington to arrange the
preliminaries for the sessions of the
commission which begin here Friday
morning.
| The commissioners will arrive to-
morrow and President Mitchell of the
mine workers, with the district presi-
dents, the miners attorneys and stem
| ographers will arrive tomorrow even
| ing.
President w. Fl. Truesdale and Cen
eral Manager e. E. Loomis Of the coal
department of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western Co. stopped off for a
few hours to-day and held a confer
ence with the local superintendent of
| their company.
| Attorneys who will represent the op-
orators are Francis l. Gowan of Phila-
delphia, for the Reading; A. H. Nc
Clintock of Wilkesbarre, for the Lee
high and Wilkesbarre; S. B. Wolverton
of Sunbury, for the Reaing; Fl. A. Full
Ter of Wilkesbarre. for the independ-
ent operators; David Wilcox of New
York and James H. Torrey of Scran-
| ton, for the Delaware & Hudson;
| Wayne McVeagh of Philadelphia and
Everett Warren os Scranton, for the
Erie; w w. Ross OF New York, for
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western;
John B. Kerr of New York. ex-Justice
| Alfred Hand and J. E. Burr of Scran-
, ton, for the Ontario & Western. Jo-
seph OBrien of Scranton and John T.
LenapelI Of Wikesbarre have been en-
gagged to present the case of the nom
union men.
For the miners, the attorneys will be
| Clarence S. Darrow Of Chicago, James
L. Lenahan, John Shea and James
Shea of Wilkesbarre and John ]. Muir
phy of Scranton. President Mitchell
and Messrs. Weyl and Lloyd will also
assist in presenting the miners side.
The hearings will be held in the su-
perior court room of the county court
house. There will be two sessions a
day, one from 10 to 1890 and the other
from 2 to 4:3O. The commissioners
have arranged for a private room for
luncheon at the Jermyn, so that they
may have daily conferences during the
noon recess.