The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-17
GREAT COAL STRIKE
HAS BEEN SETTLED.
CONCESsIONs MADE BY OPER ATORS
AND OPERATIVES.
An Arbitration Propos,ton Came From tho
Operators Through pi-rpont Morgan,
e On Monday-Settiement of strike
g Followed Early Thursday Morn
log 7Commisston to Adjust
: Differences


is settled at last. A commission OF
SIX persons, with seventh, Mr..
Carroll D. Wright, as recorder
! will adjust differences between
and miners. President
Mitchell of the miners will take the
necessary measures to call the strike
off. 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
humor 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 soeiologist. 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
kins. Events moved quickly at the
last, the president being deter
mined On a speedy settlement. ,.-.
The commission will assemble in
few days and choose chairman,
probably Gen. Wilson. It 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 2:2o
a. III. Thursday morning.
After confe' nee with Mr..
Mitchell and somt 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 all questions at
issue: between the operators and
tiirers in the anthracite coal fields:
Brig Gen. John M. Wilson, U.
Ss$A., retired (late chief of engi-
$Iieers u. S. A., Washington, D. c..
IL as an officer of the engineer corps
Nof either the military or naval SER
vice OF the Unlted States.
M. E. w. Parker, Washington,
ID. Cas- All expert mining engi-
neer. Mr.. Parker is chief statis-
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 United States
court.
{. Mr.. E. +. Clark, Cedar Rapids,
Ia, grand chief of the Order OF
Railroad CondIctors-as a sociolo-
gist, the president assuming that
for the purposes of such a commits.
sion the term sociologist means a
man who has thought and studied
deeply Oh social questions and has
practically applied his knowledge.
Mr.. Thomas II. Watkins, Scran-
ton, Pa, as man practically ac-
quainted with the mining and SELL
ing of coal.
Bishop John L. Spalding, of Peo
ria, III. The President has added
Bishop Spalding's name to the com
mission. ..,
49, Hon. Carroll D. Wright has
been appointed recorder of the com
mission.
The settlement OF the strike fol-
lowed closely the
Proposition Of the Operators.
At conference held at the White
House on Monday night OF thi,