Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-18
STRIKE SETTLED.
Happy Ending Of the Confer.
enCe at Washington.
A Commission Of Six With Carroll
Wright as Recorder Named by the
President to Adjust Differences Be.
tween Operators and Miners---Re-
sumption of Work In Mines as
Soon as Possible.

| Washington, Oct. 16.-The great an
thracite coal strike Is settled ut last
A commission of six persons, with
seventh, Carroll ID. Wright, as recorder,
will adjust differences between op.
era tors and miners. President Mitch
ell Of the Miners union will take the
necessary measures to call the strika
off. The president will urge lmmc-
date resumption Of mining and opera
tlOns are expected to begin next week
| Announcement that the great strike
was Off was made by Secretary Root
with eXuberant good humor at the
White House shortly after 1 O'Clock
this morning. Organized labor has
representative OIL the commission In
the person of T.. Il. Clark, grand chief
of the Order Of Hallway Conductors,
named as a sociologist. The president
added Bishop Spalding of Illinois to the
list of five members suggested by the
operators.
| AS named the commission is perfectly
satisfactory to both miners and OPP
orators. Assent of the miners was
| given through President Mitchell and
Mr.. Sargent commissioner of immigra-
tion, and of the operators through
Nlessrs. Robert Bacon and George w.
Perkins of ]. P. Morgan l. Co.
| The final outcome followed q series
OF conferences beginning with two dur.
ing the day with Mr. Mitchell and two
during the night with Messrs. Bacon
and Perkins. Events moved quickly at
the last the president being determined
on a speedy settlement. The commits
sion will assemble in few days and
choose Il chairman, probably General
| Wilson. 1t then will arrange for ses-
siOns and testimony.
| The following official statement an
issued at the White House at 900 Il. IN:
After conference with Mr.. Mitchell
and some further conference with
representatives of the coal operators,
the president has appointed the men,
bers of the commission to inquire into,
consider and pass upon all questions at
issue between the operators and miners
in the anthracite coal fields:
Brigadier General John NJ. Wilson,
Z. s. A., retired date chief of Ell
ginecrs, Y. S. A. Washington, u. C.,
as an officer of the engineer corps of
either the military or naval service of
the United States.
+. w. Parker, Washington, y. c., as
an expert mining engineer. Mr.. Parker
is chief statistician of the coal division
of the United States geological survey
and the editor Of The Engineering md
Mining Journal of New York.
Hon. George &. Gray, Wilmington,
Del, as Il judge of a United States court
Mr.. Il. T.. Clark, Cedar Rapids, Ia,
grand chief of the Order of Railway
Conductors, as Il socologist, the presi-
dent assuming that for the purposes
of such Il commission the term sOciolO-
gist means Il man who has thought
and studied deeply on social questions
and has practically applied his knowl-
edge.
Mr.. Thomas II. Watkins, Scranton,
Pa, as a man practically acquainted
with the mining and selling of coal.
Bishop John L. Spalding of PcOrin,
Ills. The president has added Bishop
Spal,ling's name to the commission.
Hon. Carroll d. Wright has been ap.
pointed recorder of the commission.
Mr.. Mitchell indicated formally yes
terday to President Roosevelt that the
Mine Workers union disscnts from The
restrictions placed by the operators On
the choice of the proposed arbitration
tribunal and desired the president TO
have an absolutely free hand In the
selection of members of the commission
to be charged with an adjustment of
future relations between the employers
and employed. lie laid special stress
i'm stating his objections on the PROPOSE
ton that one of the commission should
be judge from the eastern district of
Pennsylvania. He was very insstent
In some of his objections, which he
voiced in what might be termed Il
counter proposition to that Of the op-
orators.
President Roosevelt, having ascer-
tained the views of Mr.. Mitchell, at once
communicated with the operators and
initiated efforts to reconcile the diff
ferences developed and to have the OPP
orators make some further cOnceS-
sions, his aim being to reach II com
mon accord between miners and tp.
orators whereby the labor dispute may
be finally composed and mining Of coal
resumed.
When the last conference had been
concluded, Mr. Mitchell left the White
House and, after brief conference
with President Gompers of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor and some
other local labor leaders, departed for
Wilkesbarre.
Mr.. Mitchells visit to Washington
was by invitation of President loOsc-
welt in order that they might discuss
the terms of the proposition submitted
to the president last Monday night by
the anthracite coal and railroad presi
dents, in the hope that the miners and
the operators might be brought into
agreement as TO the appointment by
President Roosevelt of commission to
arbitrate existing differences between
them.
The discussion of the situation was
entirely amicable. Mr.. Mitchell was In
a cOnciiatory mood and the president
was very Jealous In his efforts to pro-
Christian Villages DESTROYED,