Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-10-30
READY FOR WORK
ARBITRATION COMMISSION MEETS
IN WASHINGTON AND Or
CANNES.
RECEIVE THEIR INSTRUCTIONS
PRESIDENT ASKS THEM TO BE
JUST TO MINERS AND oP-
ORATORS.
JUDGE GRAY IS CHAIRMAN
PUBLIC WILL BE ADMITTED TO
ALL FORMAL MEET
JUDGE GRAY IS CHAIRMAN

WASHINGTON. Oct 26-The arbitra-
ton commission appointed by Presl-
dent Roosevelt is now ready for work.
The members met yesterday, selected
Judge Gray as chairman and adopted
as the official name The Anthracite
Coal Strike Commission
The commission adjourned to meet
again next Monday at ? O'Clock. 1t
was announced that only two con-
clusions had been reached. The firSt-
of these was to admit the public at all
formal meetings of the commission,
and the second to notify the parties to
the controversy to be present at the
meeting on Monday for the purpose of
arranging q time for hearings, which
will be convenient for all concerned.
Notices were accordingly sent to the
president of the United Mineworhers,
asking them TO be in attendance Mon
day. 1t was stated that most OF the
time of yesterdays meeting was taken
up with a discussion of the question as
to the time when hearings shall be
held, the result of which MAS the con-
ciusion to call in the people interested
before reaching a decision.
Received by the President.
Previous to the meeting the various
members met at the White House.
Several OF the members had never be-
fore met. The introductions were
made in Secretary Cortelyou's Office
and Immediately thereafter the COM
mission assembled the stairs to the
presidents reception room. The pres
iden1 greeted the members cordially.
The interview was brief, lasting
scarcely twenty minutes. The worn to
be done by the commission was in
formally discussed. The president i'm
pressed upon the commission the i'm
portance of expedition and informed
them that he had decided to appoint
two assistants to the recorder to facil-
itate the work.
Get Their instructions.
He then presented to them their in
structiOns, as follows:
"Gentlemen: At the request both of
the operators and the miners l have
appointed you a commission to in
quire into. consider and pass upon the
question in controversy in connection
with the strike in the anthracite re-
gion and the causes out of which the
controversy arose. By the action you
recommend, which the parties in in
terest have in advance consented to
abide by, you will endeavor to estab-
lish the relations between the en-
ployers and the wage workers in the
anthracite fields on just and perma-
nent basis, and. as far as possible, to
do away with any causes for the recur-
renee of such difficulties as those
which you have been called on to set
tie. l submit to you herewith the pub
lished statement of the operators, fol-
lowing which l named you as the
members of the commission, Mr..
Wright being named as recorder; also
the letter from Mr.. Mitchell.
Il appoint Mr.. Mosely and Mr.. Neil
as assistants to the recorder.
-"Theodore Roosevelt"
Edward A. Mosely, who becomes an
assistant to Recorder Wright, is sec.
rotary to the interstate commerce COM
mission.
DR.. Neil. the other assistant record
er. is professor of political economy at
the Catholic university, located near
Washington.