Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-21


The coal strike came to a sudden. I'M
expected, and dramatic end in the White
ouse in Washington at 2:20 o'clock
Thursday merHmg.
An agreement TO submit the entire
question to arbitration was reached at
moment when hope had almost been
abandoned. and was brought about in a
long conference between President Roose-
welt, Secretary Root, Carroll ID. Wright,
Commissioner of Labor, Immigration
Commissioners Sargent and George w.
Perkins and Robert S. Bacon, members
of the firm of J. Z. Morgan & Co.. repre-
senting j. p. Morgan.
Bishop to ReprrseaI; Miners.
The basis of the settlement was the
concession on the part of the mine-0wn-
ers granting 10 the miners the righg to
he represented ON the arbitration com
mission. and the President at once named
Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, ILL.,, rs the
representative of the miners.
This concession was made only after
President Roosevelt had insistently point
ed out to the representatives of tie ope-
rators the absolute necessity of according
to the miners a representative on the COM
mission.
Agree When Hope Is Gone.
The end came dramatically. Even the
administration members, who had worked
without resting for over a>week to secure
an sIglvs Slnent to arbitrate. had almost lost
hope.
Wednesday President Roosevelt and
John Mitchell We're in conference at the
White House twice. President Mitchell,
expressing himself as anxious to end the
strike, insisted that the miners should
have some representation on the arbirra-
ton commission if the operators Were di-
rcctly represented On this point he was
firm, and President Roosevelt agreed to
present his counter demand to the opera
tors. The result was the conference,
which commenced at 10 O'Clock Wednes-
day night and ended early Thursday
morning.
Official Statement Issued.
The following official statement an
nouncing the close of the strike was is
sued at the White House at 2:20 a. M.
After conference with Mr.. Mitchell,
and some further conference with repre-
sentatives of the coal operators, the Pres
ident has appointed the members of the
commission to inquire into, consider, ard
pass upon all questions at issue between
the operators and miners in the anthra-
cite coal fields.
Makeup of the Commission.
"Brigadier General John NJ. Wilson, q.
s. army, retired date chief Of engineers,
u. S. Al, Washington, ID. c., as an officer
of the engineer corps of either the mill
tary or naval service of the United
States.
Mr. f. w Parker, Washington, ID. c.,
as an expert mining engineer. Mr.. Par
ker is chief statistican of the coal divis-
ion of the United States geological survey
and the editor of the Engineering and
Mining Journal of New York.
The Hon. George Gray, Wilmington,
Del. as judge of United States cont.
Mr.. Il. Z. Clark. Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
grand chief of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors, as sociologist, the President
assuming that for the purposes of such a
commission the term sociologist means a
man who has thought and studied deeply
on social questions, and has practically
applied his knowledge.
Mr. Thomas Ii. Watkins Scranton,
Pa, as a man practically acquainted with
the mining and selling of coal.
Bishop John l. Spalding, of Peoria,
Ill. The President has added Bishop
Spalding's name to the commission.
The Hon. Carroll ID. Wright has been
appointed recorder of the commission"