Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-10-16
OPERATORS WILL ARBTRATE
GREAT COAL MINERS STRIKE
SEEMS VIRTUALLY
ENDED.
Administration Believes Miners VIII
Consent TO the Proposition and That
the Mines Will Soon Be Operated
Again.

strike and relief from the personal
distress and commercial disaster
which threatened the people Of this
country IS now Immediately at hand.
On behalf Of the coal operators.
and at their suggestion, j. Picrpont
Morgan came to the White House
last night and informed the President
that the mine owners would accept
the arbitration of commission TO be
appointed by Mr.. Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt accepted this
and will appoint the commission.
Inasmuch as this was the original
proposition Of Mr.. John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Work
ers, in behalf Of the strikers, the labor
party to this great controversy will
accept. and the strike is at an end.
Mr.. Morgan and Mr.. Bacon arrived
ny special train on the Baltimore and
Onto Short line before 10 O'Clock. and
were driven at once to the Arlington
Hotel. where apartments were en-
gagged They were shown at once To
their rooms.
Mr. Morgan, on being asked If he
had been summoned to see the Prcsi.
dent. said
II have nothing to say"
After going upstairs they were at
once Joined by Secretary of War
Root. Then all three walked to the
temporary White House.
Secretary Root FASTENED up tho
steps hut. just before entering, Mr.,
Morgan hesitated moment, then took
his hat of and followed Secretary
Root into the outer hall.
Mr. Bacon was last to enter. All
three were shown at once to the Prcsi-
dents room on the second floor. and
cordial greetings were exchanged. The
conference lasted just one hour and a
half
Not one word came from the con
ference room while 1t was in session,
except that just before its close Mr..
Cortelyou. who had been in his Office
all the time was sent for by the
President
Then. at HAS. Mr. Morgan, Mr..
IN'ot, WI td'ph anu A'''''"'' WV W
you all came down the stairs together.
Gentlemen" said Mr.. COrtelyou, II
shall have a statement to make in
half an hour"
Has the strike been settled?
81 can say nothing more now
Mr.Morgan, Secretary Root and Mr.
Bacon left the White House at once
and walked back to the Arlington
Hotel.
Mr.. Morgan was deaf to all ques
lions He simply shook his head. Mr.
Bacon was also silent.
Secretary Root, in reply to the ques
ton, Has there been any result?
said:
you must ask Mr.. Cortelyou. He
will make statement
Mr. Morgan and his companions
went to the Metropolitan Club after
leaving the White House. and staid al
the Arlington Hotel last night
Mr.. Morgan told the President that
he had come to see MIN at the sug
gestion of the coal operators and thai
they were willing to submit the con
troversy to commission to be APP
pointed by the President
This virtually brings the question
back to the first White House confer
ence
The operators recede from their po
sition and accept arbitration by s
presidential commission.
The commission to he appointed by
the President of the United States
will settle all questions at issue be
tween the companies and their owl
employees, whether they belong to {
union or not. and the decision of thu
commission shalt be accepted by tn,
operators
The operators also make rs par
of their proposition that the miners
shall return to work as soon as tn,
commission is constituted and Ccas,
all Interference with nonuniOn men
The commission Il to name dat,
when it's findings shall be effectiv,
and to govern conditions of EMPLOY
ment between the companies and thei
own employees for at least three years
MoIneaux's Second Trial.
New York, oct 1.-THE secon,
trial of r. h. MolineuX. accused of tn
murder of Mrs. G. j Adams on Deccn
Der %. 1898. was called yesterday al