Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
BOTH SIDES PLEASED WITH COMMISSION
Operators and Miners Beth Say Roosevelt
Chose Wisely and Well,
NO DATE FOR ARsITRAToRs' MEETING
Proceedings Will Last Lsng, a. Infsrma-
tion for Future Use il Wanted.
FLOODED PITS WILL DELAY PRODUCTION
Some Owners Have Kept Men Below
Ground Pumping and TimberinE,
hut Others Have Not Been
Able 60 DO So.


hut Others Have Not Been
Able 60 DO So.
wILKEsBARRE, Oct. 16.-The miners are
to be sent back to work by a delegate con-
vention called for Monday. This was the
decision of the three anthracite district
boards which met here today.
The convention will meet In this city on
Monday morning. and IT is the belief Of
the union officers that mining will be re-
sumed before the close Of next week
The following is the official call.
To the Officers and Members of All Local
Unions in Districts !, and 3; Gentlemen
dstTicts eI'ns and GI 'se eNISssiVe o0Srds Of
agreed To issue a call for delegate con.
vention and recommend TO that convention
that all mine workers now on strike return
| TO their former positions and working
places and submit TO the commission APP
pointed by the president of the United
| States all questions at Issue between the
| operators and mine workers of the anthra-
In pursuance whereof you are hereby
notihed that a convention will be held In
the city OF Wilkesbarre. Pa. beginning at
The purpose of the convention will be to
act, act on the prop,osition submitted by the
Local unions will hold meetings not later
| than Friday night and elect delegates 10 at
The basis of representation will be one
| vote for each 100 members or less and an
additional vote for each additional 100 MEM
bers or majority fraction thereof The
president and secretary of each local union
will fill out one credential and one duplicate
credential for each delegate elected, The
! duplicate credential should be given TO the
delegate elected and the original should be
| placed in the hands of district board mem-
| bers not later than Saturday night The
| district board members are instructed to
credentials committee Sunday afternoon.
Il is recommended that delegates be given
| full power and authority to act In behalf of
The name of the hall in which the con-
! yention will be held will be announced later.
Hotel accommodations are being arranged
and will be announced to delegates upon
Respectfully submitted on behalf OF the
executive boards of district l. and Q.
JOHN MITCHELL,
President United Mine Workers of America,
w. b. WILSON
GEORGE HARTLEfN.
| Secretary of Meeting.
| The citizens Of the mining region are
elated because business in the coal fields
has been practically paralyzed since the
strike began
Mitchell Issues Statement.
From the time the news was received late
last night until about 10 o'clock this
morning there was some doubt as to how
the miners would receive the modified
plan. President Mitchell was asked to
make some expression on the proposition.
| but he steadfastly refused. He was pressed
! again this morning for a statement and
finally at 10 cleared up the situation by
issuing the following bulletin:
| WILKESBARRE, Pa, Oct. 16. 19O2.-Ap-
preciating the anxiety and impatience of the
| public and the mine workers for some au-
| thoritative statement from this ONCE, /
issue this bulletin to say that | was un-
acquiescence in the form of settlement pro-
posed by the coal operators, because 1t
restricted the president Of the United States
| in making selection OF the men who were
! TO determine the questions involved in the
| coal strike.
and representation given to organized labor
as well as to organized capital am nov
prepared to give my persona app, approval 70
strike by the commission selected by thu
president. and shall recommend to the ex-
) their meeting today, that an immediate
I call be issued for a convention, whose au-
thorization is necessary to declare the
In the meantime trust the people of our
country will be as. patient as possible. as
u o1l ''Op'e w." JOHN MITCHELL,
President United Mine Workers of America.
When this was read to the district lead
ers and groups of miners who came to
/
satisfaction was expressed with Mr. Mitch
ellis attitude. and from that time on there
was no doubt that the strike would be
! brought to a speedy close.
II was not until that the thirty-seyeD
| members of the three district boards be-
gan their meeting. which lasted over two
hours.
Some opposition was manifested in the
meeting to certain features Of the plan, but
after a full discussion II was unanimously
decided to recommend the convention to
accept the proposition. The boards which
met today and who practically declared the
strike on are the same which on May 8
ordered hostilities to begin, which action
was approved, In the face OF Mr.. MitehelFs
opposition, by the Hazleton convention a
few days later.
/ At is expected that some objections will
be raised at the convention to the arbltra-
tion plan. but the officers are confident
that the opposition will disappear when
President Mitchell explains all the fes-
lures Of the proposition to the delegates.
May wright Voter
A question was raised today as to
whether Commissioner Wright, who will
be the recorder OF the commission. will be
allowed to vote in case the six other mem
bers Of the board are equally divided. Mr.
Mitchell, when asked. appeared TO be sure
that he could not
The matte Of the term OF years that the
agreement shall be in force was also a
source OF much inquiry. Members OF the
union are strongly opposed to the operas
tors fixing the period. One district prea
dent said this feature had been left to thk
discretion OF the commission, as sug.
gested in Mr.. Mitehells proposition, while
other ofhcia's said they knew nothing about
It. Mr.. Mitchell did not care 10 discuss
any feature OF the arbitration agreement
while the matter was In the hands OF the
individual miners for decision.
II the plans Of the strike leaders are not
disarranged a general resumption will take
place about Thursday. II is expected the
convention will last two days, apd that
there will then be an interval OF one day