Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-10-16
PEACE IN SIGHT
At LAST
President Mitchell Agrees TO the Operators
Proposition for Arbitration With the
Limitations Removed.
AMENDMENT WAS ACCEPTED
Call VIII be Promptly Issued for the Convention Of
Miners and II is Believed Work Will Be Resumed
al 0nCe-WIkesbarre Will
be the Place.

tion from Washington early this morn
ing that both parties to the controvers.
in the anthracite coal strike had reach
ed an agreement to arbitrate and tina
the great conflict is about to close was
received throughout the entire hare
coal region with greatest satisfaction
When the information was received
from the national capital about
o'clock this morning that an agreement
had been reached by the representa-
tives of both parties to the struggle
there was only score of newspaper
correspondents and few stragglers at
strike headquarters. District Presidents
Duffy and Fahy We're in the hotel but
could not be seen. President Mitchell
arrived from Washington nearly half
an hour after the information was re-
ceived and he had little to say on the
outcome. After a short conference with
Secretary and Treasurer Wilson. who
net him at the railroad station, Mr..
Mitchell retired and was in his office
tsain by $50 a. m. To a delegation of
reporters who called upon him. he said
he would have nothing to say until af-
ter the meeting of the district boards
lie would not make a prediction as to
what the three district boards would
do.
AT 9:55 a. m. President Mitchell issued
the following statement:
"Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 16.-Ap-
preciating the anxiety and impatience
Of the public and the mine workers for
some authoritative statement from this
office, I issue this bulletin to say that I
was unaltera bly, opposed to the accep-
tance of or acquiescence in the form of
settlement proposed by the coal opera
tors because 1t restricted the president
of the United States in making his Sc
lection of the men who We're to deter
mine the question involved in the coal
strike. These restrictions having been
removed and representation given to
organized labor as well as to organized
capital, am now prepared to give my
personal approval to a settlement of the
issues involved in this strike by the
commission selected by the president
and shall recommend to the executive
meeting today that an immediate call
be issued for a convention whose au-
thorization is necessary to declare the
strike at an end. In the meantime I
tr,, ct tho Of mfr "a
as patient as possible, as we are NOV
ing as rapidly as the interests of our
people will permit. Signed-John Mitch
ell, President United Mine Workers of
America
Mr.. Mitchells public statement clear
ed the situation considerably. 1t is now
for the miners to act and not one per-
son can be found around headquarters
who is not of the opinion that the dis
trict boards will call the convention and
that the convention will decide to send
the men back to work Immediately. 1t
is reasonably certain that the delegates
will meet in this city. The members of
the three district boards began gather
ing at headquarters soon after s o'clock
and nearly all of them were on the
ground by 10 o'clock. The principal
subject of discussion was the makeup
Of the commission. Few members had
any opinion to express for the reason
they did not know much about the at
titude Of the members. Some of them
believed the board favorable to the
miners.
The three district boards went into a
secret session at o'clock in the parlor
of the Hart hotel. According to an
officer high in the councils union, it is
probable the convention will be called |
possibility that Saturday may be the
day. The convention probably will be
held in this city. The length of the
convention will depend upon the
amount of debate. At this time it looks
as though general resumption Of work
will not be effected until next Wednes-
day or Thursday.
BAER VERY BUSY.
Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. 16.-President
Baer of the Reading Company, reached
his office at $3.50 o'clock this morning.
He said he had not heard the results Of
the Washington conference yesterday;
that he had not read the morning news
papers and was too busy to read them.
For this reason, he said, he could not
discuss the situation.
Few of the representatives of the coal
interests would discuss the status of
the coal situation, beyond expressing a
belief that the commission named last
night has tremendous task before 1t.
"It has serious problem to solve"
said President Oliphant Of the Della
ware and Hudson road. "The question
of the wages the men are to receive,
how the men are to be paid in different
mines and in different veins in the same
mines are some of the questions. These
are the problems that men have grown
gray headed trying to solve"
The miners convention will be held at
Wilkesbarre at 10 o'clock Monday. This
was decided at the conference. this af-
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