Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-10-30
READY FOR WORK
ARBITRATION COMMISSION MEETS
IN WASHINGTON AND Or
GANlZEs.
RECEIVE THEIR INSTRUCTIONS
PRESIDENT ASKS THEM TO BE
JUST TO MINERS AND oP-
ORATORS.
JUDGE GRAY is CHAIRMAN
PUBLIC WILL BE ADMITTED TO
ALL FORMAL MEET
INGS.

Washington, Oct 26.-The arbitra-
ton commission appointed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt is now ready for work.
The members met yesterday, selected
Judge Gray as chairman and adopted
as the official name THE Anthracite
Coal Strike Commission"
The commission adjourned to meet
again next Monday at 2 O'Clock. 1t
was announced that only two on
illusions had been reached. The hrSt.
of these was to admit the public at all
formal meetings of the commission,
and the second To notify the parties TO
the controversy to be present at the
meeting on Monday for the purpose or
arranging a time for hearings, which
will be convenient for all concerned.
Notices were accordingly sent TO the
mine operators and to Mr.. Mitchell,
president of the United MineWorkers,
asking them to be in attendance Mon
day. 1t was stated hat most of the
time of yesterdays meeting was taken
ND with a discussion of the question as
to the time when hearings shall be
held, the result CT which was the con-
ciusion to call in the people interested
before reaching a decision.
NJ AAN~
Previous L the meeting the various
members met at the White House.
! Several of the members had eve be-
fore met. The introductions were
made in Secretary Cortelyou's office
and Immediately thereafter the COM
mission assembled the stairs to the
presidents reception room. The pres.
. ident greeted the members cordially.
4 Tha :necrufnuy xyal hrinf laEfinp
scarcely twenty minutes. The work to
be done by the commission was in
formally discussed. The president i'm
pressed upon the. commission the i'm
~portance of expedition and informed
two assistants to the recorder to facil-
itate the work.
Get Their Instructions.
He then presented to them their in
structions, al follows:
Gentlemen: At the request both of
! the operators and the miners | have
appointed you a commission TO in-
Quire into, consider and pass upon the
question in controversy in connection
with the strike in the anthracite re-
gion and the causes out of which the
: controversy arose. BY the action you
/ recommend, WHICH lD6 pdIllSS IN Ia
! terest have IN advance consented TO
abide by, you will endeayor to estab-
lish the relations between the EN-.
ployers and the wage workers in the
anthracite fields or a just and perma-
nent basis, and, as far as possible, to
do away with any causes for the ecu
renee of such difficulties as those
which you have been called on to set.
tie. | submit to you herewith the pub
lished statement of the operators, fol-
lowing which | named you as the
members of the commission, MI.
Wright being named as recorder; also
the letter from Mr.. Mitchell.
II appoint Mr.. Mosely and Mr.. Neil
as assistants to the recorder.
Theodore Roosevelt"
Edward A. Mosely, who becomes an
assistant to Recorder Wright. is sec
Rotary to the interstate commerce COM
mission.
DIR. Neil, the other assistant record
er, is professor of political economy at
the Catholic university, located near
Washington.