The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-06
ANOTHER TRIP BY MACVEAGH.
HESAYS THIS ONE HAS NOTHING
TO do WITH 4 SETTLEMENT.
All the Companies Except the y. 4 II.
and the Erie Want Commission 70
Adjust strike After . Full Hearing
One Form for All Companies Ftgures


SCRANTON, Pa, Dec 9 Wayne MacVeagh
and the newspaper men here who are con-
stantly waiting for pacific words relative
TO strike settlement to drop from his lips
arc still agitating the matter OF an adjust
ment of the difficulties "out of court
This agitation was increased this after
noon by a hurried trip that Mr.. MacVeagh
made to New York and Washington Before
going he made The following statement:
Mr. Macveagh left here this afternoon
for Washington by way of New York as the
testimony being taken does not concern his
clients to an extent that makes his presence
necessary.
Mr. Macyeagh stated before leaving that
majority of the operators thought II better
10 adjourn all efforts TO reach by amoablo
conferences a basis Tor the award BY the COM
mission until both sides hnd presented all
the testimony that they wished to offer.
Whether the Efforts to reach such basis
Will then be- resumed can only be decided
after the testimony Is closed.
Mr. MacVeagh answered that he personally
thought that IN view of the extraordinary
conditions EXISTING m the anthracite region
this was "A mistaken attitude for the miners
TO assume. he feared each days testimony
would tend to increase the bitterness Of feel
ing but Il was not only the ght but the duty
of the operators to act Oh their own judgment
of the situation. and he sincerely hoped the
result would fully justify the conclusion they
reached
A gentleman conversant with the stua-
ton from the operators standpoint said 10
THF Sun reporter this afternoon:
This agitation for settlement that is
= ii bang made is by the representa- yes
of two companies, the Delaware and Hudson
and the Erie. which controls the Hillside
Coal and Iron Company and the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company. The other COM
panies. following the lead Of President
Baer. want the commission to adjust the
strike after both sides to the controversy
have been heard This is the situation
nov. as il was when MacVeaeh summoned
Mitchell and barrow 10 Washington and
held a conference with them there.
Mr.. MacVeagh naturally desires that a
settlement he reached He is piqued over
his first failure and he hopes that in tie
end he will be able to accomplish some
thing Up 10 date he has not teen able to
do 40 and the situation has not changed"
President J L. Crawford of the Peoples
Coal Company, one Of the Independent
operators. who has hecn most active in
blocking all settiement-o'r- f-court PROPOSE
tions. said this afternoon, wien asked con-
cerning the project of Mr. MacVeagh:
They will not settle until We agree to do
SO and am telling YOU that Wy have not so
agreed nor arc we likely to"
1t seems TO be generally understood
that from the early days Of the strike GER
tain Of the companies have been DESTROYS
OF adopting a conciliatory policy in the
effort to bring the strike to an end These
gentlemen. long before the agreement to
arbitrate vas reached, were willing to
make an advance in wages To the men,
and they would have done so had nor the
aggressive men among the coal presidents.
like Mr.. Baer. held them in check.
This talk of settlement now and these
hurried trips backward and forward by
Mr.. MacVeagh are but continuance of
the concilia,ory policy referred to.
At the opening of the morning session
Mr.. Warren, repreS ing the ackawanra
company moved to strike out the testimony
of William Markwick. an engineer called
late Yesterday afternoon, on the ground
that he did not 90 out at the time Of the
original strike but went out with the other
engineers and hremen ON June ,. He
raised the point, too, that a. Markwick
was a hosting engineer his duties had
nothing in common with the work Of the
other mine employees.
This was argued at some length and
brought up the question of whether the
operators were bound TO give employment
to all the men on strike pending the de-
csion Of the commission.
Attention was called to the fact that
the oxford mine employs as many nom
union men union and the non-union
men had been promised that their places
would be held for them. Mr. Reynolds.
attorney for Mr.. Crawford OF this COM
pany. wanted to know IL the commission
expected Mr.. Crawford to violate this
obligation. He has agreed TO stand by
the decision Of the commission as to that
,Iudrc GRAY, We cannot accept any provI1-
ional submission. We want a full submission
Iptl-lDn commission
Mi Reynolds But We rely upon the general
rule that you cannot disrupt the ontra ct re-
lations between the employer and the ON.
rey"es. Mr. crawford is bound by moral
obligation AT least 10 protect these men, H..
does not wish to agree to violate the oblga
tion he has msds e., -
position YOU take you may act accordingl y.
We won't decid" that question now. but
without mai king any decision w. wish to say
tnnt We cannot accept any prov i-ional or
special submission 10 the arbitration II II
!. admitted that ne men STAYED out and
strike. there j. no use OF calling the pump
men. Hrcmen and cneine'rs to testify ,
represent are concerned that is true. and il
Is admi'tcd ma, tn1y , T"T" nHi taken back
mrcS ' we're p'Ti FILED Tn durns s,ha and
Mr.. Dnrrow-Nor AZ any other work'
MIR. Warren They didn't ask for any
,Mr ChTk-Thc men we're taken back and
given their emile mi, }mcnt; cScsp, where th9iT
IA
reasons existed for the compa HES 70 object
to these persons,
Mr. barrow We admit that where the
places were filed Tor special reasons,
such rs the commission crime, they we're
not taken back
The int PRODUCTION Of Narkwick's testi-
mony to-day enabled the company to score
point. II showed that the company
desired 10 arrange matters that the
twenty-four-hour Sunday every two weeks
would be- done away with. letter written
by Mark~ick TO the company showed that
the men favored this twenty fouT-hours
turn because II gave them twenty four
hours OF duty at a stretch every two weeks
II also developed during the testimony of
Markwick that the steam men, though
many Of them had an organization Of their
own, took their orders from the United Mine
Workers Of America
When the commission resumed after
lunch Mr.. MacVeagh spoke OF the diff
Guilty experienced in reaching the facts
and figures that were actually needed to
be OF as tstance to the commission. He
thought that there was apt to be a great
deal Of time consumed by the prepare ior.
and Introduction OF matter that would be-
of assistance to no one.
Judge Gray remarked that the com
mission had already taken note Of his
and was having prepared a form for the
accountants that they desired all the com
NAMES TO fill out This schedule WAS in