The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-02
TO RESUME STRIKE HEARINGS.
ARBITRATION COMMISSIONERS 90
BACH TO SCRANTON.
Ls~>e-s on Both Sides Preparing for the
Resumption Of TestimOn. Regarding
the Coal strike Miners Are Seeking
Data on the schooling OF children.

SCRANTON, Pa Dec. I. The coal strike
arbi ration commissioners are all expected
ere late tonight OF early tomorrow MORN
log II is said here they will hold con.
ference OF the Hotel Jermyn tomorrow
10 consider questions that are TO come be-
fore the commission. Al this time there
may be considered the question of union
recognition that the miners intend to insist
the commissioners shall take up and which
the operators say is not a proper matt er
to come before the commission.
Tomorrow evening the attorneys for
the operators will meet in conference at
the Jermyno map out programme. This
VII probably include decision as TO which
of the ATTORNEYS will oross-examine the
miners to be called. The constant confer
ences that we're held to-day by President
Mitchell and his attorneys were hindered
somewhat by the voluminous mail that Mr.
Mitchell is receiving daily. II pours In by
the basketfll. Among the letters that he
receives are some Offering advice. Mitchell
gives personal attention TO every one Of
these communications. il matters not how
silly the majority are. and he Is frank TO
confess that II would seem that some appea r
70 have been written by persons who are
unbalanced mentally.
These was wild rumor about town that
the miners, indignant at the way the coal
presidents had suddenly broken OF negn-
tiations for settlement, were about 10 60 on
strike again. Attorney DarroS in connec-
lion with this matter said
The idea il ridiculous. The miners have
been fighting all along 10 have the matter
submitted TO arbitration, and now that they
have the issue placed before an arbitration
board for adjustment they are not by any
means going To withdraw from the com
mission. even il they could. We have every
thing to gain With the matter before the
commission
The United Mine Workers have requested
County Superintendent of Schools J. c.
Taylor to furnish them with statistics in
regard to the percentage Of miners children
not attending the public schools. The
miners intend TO show by these statistics
to the strike commission that there is a
larger proportion Of miners children unable
To attend school than there is of the children
of other workmen, for the reason that the
miners wages do not permit them To sup
port their families.
Supt TAYLOR has accordingly sent a cir
cular 70 the p incpals of all schools in the
county in which are embodied the following
qu 0stionS:
Fir.t-Wnst l. the average length Of the
sCfool life oil miners child:
second What i the average age az which
a rrinsr'- child leaves schooly
Third-What percentas" of the total num-
btr .nIollGd in your schools this year are
Fourth--NhRt percentage of miners chill
dren enter N" high - ool'
Fifth--What psrocrtHga of those entering
the high school crAduatep
Sixth According To- your best judgment,
9re there many boys employed In mines and
breakers under ~. age ~ ~ years?
Seventh-Are many of to miners children
taken ort of school to work before they have
obtained the rudiments of common school
educntiopp
Eighth-How many new pupils enter your
.cl ools IN september each year?
Nin'h-What l. tho v'rac" size of your
hiVh school graduating classes,
Terth- When mir r. children leave school
what rea on 70 'hay assign As a rule?
In ar-icutursl regions road farmers in
toad OF miner, &c. H. orier th0t n COM
Gious.
District No. of the m'n"rs union held
, -neeting TODAY az the headnunrtcrs
in -he PAUL Building 10 consider the cases
If the men who, IL j. alleged, have been
Disseminated against Nv the comDanies
District Pre-idcUr Nichols presided ard
here were also present Ssore'arv DeInp-
-ev and Board Members k"arney, Lew
eiyn, Reap. Thomas and Reese
The cases taken MP to-day were those OF
he Lackawanua company and the Kingston
Coal Company. II appears thai the men
At the Kingston mine are Indignant and
they are calling upon the officers Of the
union TO take some measures looking to
'h"ir relief
That the strike commissioners are con-
viuced thai they are now 70 have n pro-
iractod STAY IN Scranton Is shown by the
fact that they have engaged their rooms
A. the Hotel Irr'N'-! fpr So i"6oHpite time.