The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-17
NO ANTHRACITE COALSTRIKE
OPERATORS ACCEPT ACTION OF
 MINERS, CONVENTION.

Action Was Sattsfactory-MItche Elected MIners' Legal Representative
 Before she Board.
 Scranton, Pa., June 16.-There will be no strike in the anthracite region grow ing out of the refusal of the operators to recognize the credentials of District Presidents Nichols, Fahy and Dettrey, selected by the joint executive board of the United Mine Workers as the miners representatives on the board of concil- iation.
 The convention of the United Mine Workers to-day elected the three dis trict presidents by districts, as their representatives and the operators, through President George F. Baer of the Reading company, announced that this action was satisfactory.
 When the miners convention ad- journed Monday afternoon it was for the ostensible purpose of giving the committee on resolutions opportunity to frame report embodying the senti- ment of the convention as expressed in the motions and speeches of Monday af- ternoon's session. During the night and early this morning MT. Cornell of the conciliation board on the one hand and President Mitchell on the other com municated with one other through Dr.. Charles P. Neill, who was sent here as a peace envoy by some members of the strike commission and the result was a tentative agreement that if the miners in the three separate district elected representatives those representatives would not be objected to by the opera tors.
 When the convention opened this morning President Mitchell read the re- port of the committee on resolutions, providing for the election of conciliators by separate district conventions.
 The report was adopted unanimously, but with absolutely no show of enthu- siasrn.
 President Mitchell then announced that the three districts would next vote separately on the selection of represen- tatives on the board of conciliation.
 Nominating resolutions similarly worded, except as to nominee and local- 1Sy, 4WClC plCoCllLCu III IuLlA by 0C4SS1bNo previously selected from each district and with rousing and unanimous "ayes" the district presidents were duly elected as conciliators. .s.
 President Mitchell read resolution directing that all grievances submitted to the committee on resolutions be turn- ed over to the conciliators. The resolu- tion was adopted. There was burst of applause when President Mitchell at the opening of the afternoon session an- nounced that the operators through President Baer of the Reading company had authorized the statement that the action of the convention was satisfac- tory. MT. Mitchell, during the noon re- cess communicated indirectly with Pres ident Baer. through MT. Connell and pr. Neill.
 The convention elected President Mitchell as the legal representative of the miners at the hearings before the conciliation board.
 The convention was brought to a close with speech by President Mitchell in which he urged the miners not to lose interest in their union.
 The operators are unanimously agreed on the acceptance of the elected miners representatives. MT. Connell stated in an interview this evening that the most the operators demanded at any time was what the miners did to-day. MT. Connell further stated that the op- orators representatives on the board on conciliation would urge an immediate session of the conciliation board that the existing disputes may be settled and peace once more be permitted to prevail.