New-York tribune., 1902-08-13
MOVE FOR ARBITRATION.
fNDTCATIONS APPEAR TO POINT TO \
TERMINATION OF STRIKE.
Trr TELEGRAPH TO The TRIBUSE-l


y,-,1l,esbarre Penn. Aug 12.-Another effort
&c heine made to have the strike settled by ar
hitration. The Peoples Alliance Of this city
which is composed If prominent citizens mas
arranged TO send a committee Of tETenty-four 10
rlace an arbitration proposition before senators
QUAY and Penrose and will leave here next
Saturday. Each Senator has expressed his VIII
ingness 10 aid in the matter and DO Wha' ne
can George ] IleveIlyn. a member Of the
committee who Went 20 Philadelphia yesterday
10 see them returned to-day. He said
I saw Mr.. Penrose and State Attorney Genera
Fllin and they seemed pleased 10 be asked 10
serve in This important matter. and promised TO
do everything they could 10 bring the strugS.s
10 an end. ] explained the situation but coulo
SUGGEST no Dlan as I did not know what the
committee advocated. l arranged win M
Penrose for United States Senator quay: Al'oI-
ney General EIkin and himself 10 meet the com
mittee OF the Peoples Alliance ana HSteh -, -
their plan for a settlement and reasons Tor the
States interference IN the trouble --,.,,
Mr. PenroSe said he would communicate Win
Mr. Quay. who is in Atlantic City. and nave d
time fixed. I expect 2 letter tomorrow teilihs
when rhe committee can be received. Attorney
General Elkin semed TO he greatly interested IN
the plan 10 settle the strike and said the state
administration would lend its best efforts 10
that end.
Those who know the strike conditions do not
EXPECT that the effort viii meet with any sue
cess. and say that if Senator Hanna and the
ators cannot. The business men. however, be
lieye that between the State and the national
government there can be found some wav Of
legally attacking the operators and making them
come to settlement
The union will now concentrate every effort
10 end the strike before cold weather. Presi-
dent Mitchell when asked to-day about the con-
ditions said:
We are now concentrating all our efforts in
the anthracite region, and intend to bring this
strike to successful issue as speedlly as pos
Sible We are settling up the little strike IN
Central Pennsylvania in satisfactory manner,
and the men there viii soon be back at Work
The trouble in Michigan is already settled. and
now the only serious strike outside OF the an
rhracfte region is the trouble in West Virginia
We are now able and expect 10 be for some
time in a position 10 provide for our people on
strike and TO relieve all cases OF distress. The
relief plan is working satisfactorily. and our
appeal for aid IS receiving liberal response
from organized labor all over the country.
Vice-President Loomis. Of the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western. who was in the region
to-day said that the attitude Of the companies
was to-day exactly the same toward the strikers
as it waS the day the strike was begun. and
that there would be no change in the policy OF
the operators, no matter how long the strike
continued He emphatica denied the report
that the coal companies were contemplating
making any concessions. The miners will all
said.
Significant action was taken to-day by the
Kingston Coal Company and the Pennsylvania
Coal Company, the mules being brought back
n the mines Of each, preparatory TO being taken
into the mines 70 clear up- These indications
make il evident that the companies believe the
time for the resumption Of work is close at
hand. The Delaware. LaCkaWanna and West
err officials suggest that before the end of the
week the Woodward and the PartebOne collieries
may be IN operation \ number Of men are be
ing gathered At each, most Of them from other
parts OF the region and the force is now large
enough cut coal The officers, fearing 20 irri-
tate the strikers. are reticent. and do not want
much published. They have managed TO break
up much Of the pcketirg at the Woodward. and
tonight had seven Of the pickets arrested for
dsorderly conduct and rioJing. They were fined
$50 each and held under 500 hail.
Frederick Warnke, owner Of the washery at
Duryea, where the strikers have stopped work
on several occasions. having failed to get pro
lection Of the local authorities is now having
erected harbed wire barriCade about his work
inGs. and has twenty coal and iron policemen
engaged. These VIII Ue heavily armed and he
viii then endeavor 70 run the washery with the
fifty men he has. and who are. he says. ready
u work. Il is feared that there VIII be trouble