The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-03
COMMISSIONERS
 G0 ID HAzLETON VIII Spend Four More Days Examining the Mines BISH0PSPALD DING BREACHES No Reference Made to Work of Com mlssIon-only In Most General
 Way Could Sermon be
 So Construed.
BISHOpSPAlDlNG BREACHES

Scranton. Pa, November 2.-The strike commissioners left for Hazleton tonight to spend four days in further acquaint- ing themselves with the physical fea- lures of mining They had not decided up to the time of leaving. how they would divide their time while in the mid dle and lower districts. It was definitely decided though that not more than four days would be devoted to the trip
 Assistant Recorder Neill was left be- hind to receive the miners statement from President Mitchell tomorrow. On Thursday 1t is expected the operators counter statement will be presented. The commissioners will then take a recess until November IA, by which time the two parties will be expected to have com pleted the preparation of their cases, and be ready to go on with the hearings. The commissioners will also devote the in terim to preparation for the hearings by acquainting themselves with the details of the two statements.
 Bishop Spalding preached at the late mass In St. Peters cathedral this morn ing. His fellow commissioners attended the service and occupied front pews. The bishops sermon was based on the tenth verse of the thirteenth chapter of St Paul's epistle to the Romans:
 ''Love worketh no i'll to his neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.''
 No reference was made to the work of the commission, and only in a most general way could the sermon be made applicable therto.
 The commission will remain in their sleeping car all night tonight. They will be met at 9 o'clock in the morning at Pond Creek, about nine miles north of Hazleton by Thomas Duffy, the president of this district of the Mine Workers union, who will represent the miners. General Superintendent Warriner of the Lehigh Valley and General Superintend- ent Richards of the Lehigh and Wilkes barre company. will represent the oper- ators. The mines which the commission will visit has not yet been decided upon. Superintendent Warriner has suggested the No. 4 shaft, operated by his com pany. The miners prefer to have the arbitrators inspect the Harwood colliery of O. Pardee & Go. There are twenty five mines In the Hazleton region and all but No. shaft are entered by means of a slope. The Harwood Is a typocal mine of that region, and as the commission has thus far only visited mines with shafts and have not yet gone down a slope, the miners think they should se- feet the Harwood. The commissioners on Saturday requested both sides to agree on one mine, and If they fail the com mission will probably decide the matter.
 President Duffy Going.
 Wilkesbarre November AT. J. Duff fly, district president of the United Mine Workers for the Lehigh district, left for Hazleton this evening and will accompany the investigation commission on their tour of the Lehigh region. MT. Duffy had conference with General Su- perintendent Warriner of the Lehigh Val ley Coal company relative to the alleged dismissal of some union miners from the coiiieries of the company in the Lehigh region. Neither party to the conference would give out anything for publication. The trouble at the mines of the Kings ton Coal company remains unsettled A committee of the U. N. M waited on General Superintendent Williams and tried to have him give his consent to al- low the check weighman employed by the miners to remain on the company's prop erty. AT. Williams said he would reply in a few days.