The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-22
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read the announcement which had been
prepared by the commission in advance.
1t was as follows:
According TO the suggestion just
made by counsel that an interval of
time be taken for the preparation Of
documentary evidence and for a posi-
BILE agreement as to certain facts and
figures which would forward the work
of the commission. the commission de-
sires to express the hope that an effort
will be made by the parties to come to
an agreement upon nearly all, if not all
the matters now in controversy and
that they will adopt the suggestion
heretofore made by the commission to
counsel on both sides, that We aid them
in such an effort by our conciliatory Of
fees. 1t seems to US that many Of the
conditions complained of. and which
ftave been the subject and study of our
examination, might be better remedied
by the parties to the controversy APP
preaching the subject in a proper spirit
and with the purpose of fairly adjusting
them. We hope, gentlemen. that the in
terval of time to be granted may be
awaited OF with this end in view OF
course, in the meantime, we shall pro-
coed with the work before US as we have
begun it..
After this announcement Everett
Warren. os counsel for the Pennsylva-
mia Coal company, and the Hillside Coal
and Iron company explained the diff
Guilty of his company in being able to
present their pay rolls and other evil
dence in a brief time and approved of
an adjournment for week or ten days.
This was agreed to and in order to give
all parties an opportunity to confer on
the new state of affairs an adjournment
was taken at 1915 until tomorrow
morning.
1t was agreed tonight by the miners
representatives and the attorneys for
the coal companies to ask the commits
sion tomorrow to adjourn until We'd
nesday, December g. 1t is probable the
request will be granted.
1t was learned tonight by the CORE
spondent OF The Associated Press that
all the large companies have not yet as
scented to the proposed outside agree
ment, but that in all probability they
will consent and continue to work as
unit as they did during the strike. The
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron company, one of the corporations,
it is understood, has not yet been
heard from on the matter Those which
are said to be in the agreement scheme
are the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western, the Lehigh Valley, the Della
ware and Hudson and the Erie COM
pany. which controls the Pennsylvania
Coal rompany, and the Hillside Coal
ana Iron company. The attorneys for
some of the other companies are hourly
expecting to hear from the head officials
Of the corporations they represent.
There is a wide difference OF opinion
as to whether the proposal to settle
differences among themselves will meet
with success. AS general proposition,
it is believed by lawyers, that it will
succeed, but that some Of the contro-
versial points will have to go before
the arbitrators. 1t has been realized
that at least two Of the -Four demands
of the miners-that for uniform wage
scale and the weighing of coal~-cannot
be satisfactorily settled in the hearing
room but must be fixed up at the
mines. There are upwards of 800 col
lieries and there are hardly any two of
them alike. 1t is argued by the oper-
ators that there must be different
scale for each one on account of the
varying conditions and that a uniform
wage scale, which is one of the miners
demands Is impossible. Regarding the
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it would be impossible to grant the de-
mand as presented by the miners be-
cause OF the non-existence of machin-
cry or system by which a miner can
be paid for the 2.240 pounds of pre-
pared coal 1t will have to be done,
they say, through the present system of
averages.
The proposition to have the mine
workers make contracts with their en-
ployers does not carry with it a. recog-
milton of the union and on that ground
it is not likely that the two parties
will be able to settle 1t without resort
to the arbitration commission, 1t is
not doubted that IL an agreement is
reached, it would be approved by the
commission. The agreement, however,
will have to be one that will provide for
reasonably sure permanent settle
ment The instructions given to the
commissioners by President Roosevelt
when he handed the case to them to
settle, are explicit. In these instruc-
tions he said
"You will endeavor to establish the
relation between the employers and the
wage workers in the anthracite fields
on a just and permanent basis and as
far as possible do away with any
causes for the recurrence of such diff
culties as those which you have been
called in to SETTLE"
When one of the commissioners was
asked what the commission would do
in case it thought the agreement would
not be permanent, he said: 1--WE will
cross that bridge when we come to it."