The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17
GREAT COAL STRIKE
has BEEN SETTLED.
CONCESSIONS MADE By OPERATORS
AND OPER ATIVES.
An Arbitration Proposition Came From the
Operators Through Pierpont Moreau,
3 On Monday-Settlesent OF StEike
Followed Early Thursday Morn
inR-CommlssIon to Adjust
Differences.

The great anthracite coal strike
is settled at last. A commission ol
six persons, with a seventh, Mr.
Carroll D. Wright, as recorder
, will adjust differences between
operators and miners. President
Mitchell of the miners will take the
: necessary measures to call the strike
of. The president will urge imme-
diate resumption of mining and
operations are expected to begin
next week.
: Announcement that the great
strike was off was made by Secre-
tary Root with exuberant good
huraor at the White House shortly
after O'Clock Thursday morning.
Organized labor has representa-
tive on the commission in the per-
SON Of E. E Clark, grand chief of
the Order of Railway Conductors,
named as a soeiolagist. The presi-
dent 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
operators. Assent of the miners
was given through President Mitch
ell and Mr.. Sargent, commissioner
of immigration and of the operators
through Messrs. Robert Bacon and
George w. Perkins, of the banking
firm Of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co.
The final outcome followed a series
of conferences, beginning with two
during Wednesday with Mr.. Mitch
ell and two during Wednesday
night with Messrs. Bacon and Per-
-kius. Events moved quickly at the
last, the president being deter
mined on speedy settlement. +. =.
- The commission will assemble in
a few days and choose a chairman,
probably Gen. Wilson. 1t then
will arrange for sessions and testi-
mony.
The following official announce
ment of the close of the strike was
issued at the White House at 2:ao
a. m. Thursday morning.
& After a conference with Mr..
Mitchell and some further confer
ence with representatives of the
coal operators the president has
appointed the members of the COM
mission to inquire into, consider
and pass upon ali questions at
issue between the operators and
miners in the anthracite coal fields:
Brig. Gen. John M. Wilson, u.
SA., retired (late chief of engi-
neers U. S.sA.), Washington, D. c..
as an officer OF the engineer corps
of either the military or naval ser
vice of the United States.
M. E. w. Parker, Washington,
D. Cas- an expert mining engi-
neer. Mr.. Parker is chief statls-
tician of the coal disvision of the
United States geological survey
and the editor of the Engineering
and Mining Journal of New York.
\ Hon. George Gray, Wilmington,
Del, as judge OF a United States
court.
! Mr.. E. E. Clark, Cedar Rapids,
Ia, grand chief of the Order OF
Railroad Conductors-as sociolo-
gist, the president assuming that
for the purposes of such a commis
sion the term sociologist means a
man who has thought and studied
deeply on social questions and has
practically applied his knowledge
Mr.. Thomas H. Watkins, Scran-
ton, Pa, as a man practically ac
quainted with the mining and sell
ing of coal.
Bishop John L. spalding, of Peo
ria, Ill. The President has added
Bishop Spalding's name to the com
mission.
Hon. Carroll D. Wright ha
been appointed recorder of the com
mission.
The settlement of the strike tol
lowed closely the
Proposition Of the Operators.
At a conference held at the Whit
House on Monday night Of thl