Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-01
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Carroll D. Wright Presents
His Report.
NO STRIKE LIKELY
COAL MINERS AND OPERATORS
WILL ADJUST DIFFERENCES.
Mr.. Hull's Sanguine Political Views
Immigration in the South-Want-
ed to Warn the President.
NO STRIKE Likely 7


of the anthracite miners in Pennsylvania
would result from the contention which has
arisen between the operators and miners
concerning the appointment of a check
weighing boss for the miners in various
collieries.
Mr.. Wright called at the White House to
present to the President his annual report
on wages and cost of living from 1880 to
1908 At the conclusion of his interview
with the President he talked briefly about
the pending difficulty between the anthracite
operators and miners. By agreement he Is
the umpire to whom all disputes which may
arise over the carrying into effect of the
anthracite coal strike commissions award
may be referred. The award provided that
II in any colliery the miners desired one Of
their number as check-weigh1ng boss
whose duty 1t should be to protect the in
terests of the miners in the Weighing of the
coal taken out of the colliery, he should be
appointed His pay was to be assessed
pro rata upon the miners of the colliery re-
ceiving the benefit Of his services
In the collieries of the Coke Bros, at
Wilkesbarre, and in others majority of
the men have asked for a check-weighing
boss. The proposition has been objected
to by the operators because all of the men
in the collieries did not ask that the coal
be check weighed. The operators MAIN
tanned that only the men who requested
the checking should be assessed to pay for
the wefgher's services. The matter was
referred to Mr.. Wright, as umpire, and he
decided that the assessment should be made
on all of the men employed in any given
colliery. The decision was not satisfactory
to the operators. who suggested that an
other umpire be named to pass upon the
subject
Such procedure is scarcely probable,
however as the decision of any other UNI
pire would be just as likely to be unsatis-
factory to one side or the other as that of
Mr.. Wright.
The reason for the objection of the op-
orators to the assessment of all the en-
ployes of a colliery to pay the checking
boss is not clear to Mr.. Wright. He re-
CARDS such plan as perfectly fair to both
sides. Under the provisions of the award,
II the men who do not ask for the check
Ing boss object to paying their portion of
the assessment they may be discharged
from employment at the colliery 1t is
simply case of the enforcement of the
rule OF the majority. Mr.. Wright ex-
pressed the belief that no strike would re-
suit from the present contention
PRESIDENT Baer of the Reading company
also had expressed similar opinion, he
pointed out, and he thought the operators
would abide by the decision in the matter.
Ihe coal operators have a check-weighing
Doss at each mine, and the decision of Mr.
wright was to the effect that IL a majority
OF the miners at a mine desired a check
we1ghman of their own selection as an off,
set 10 the weighman of the operators they
could have him upon application and that
his salary should be paid by pro rata as
sessment upon all the miners in that mine
For some reason the operators hold that
the pro rata assessment should come out
OF me salaries OF the men who applied for
check weighman and not out of the
wages OF those who did not apply
Mr.. Hull's Political Views.
Representative Hull of Iowa, vice chair
YS1Qr Of
mittee. conferred with the President about
political matters. Mr.. Hull is on his way
to New York to take up the work of the
congressional committee, and there were
certain subjects about which he desired to
know the views of the President Mr.. Hull
shares the general sanguine feeling of re-
publicans as to the outlook in November.
When spoken to about the possibility that
the reading matter being sent ont by the
various political committees might not
after all. touch upon what will deyelop
into the issues of the campaign, he said
this was true.
1.-The attempt is being made in some of
the democratic papers of the east to make
the personality of President Roosevelt the
real issue OF the campaign" was suggested
to Mr.. Hull.
X notice that" he said. but the re-.
publicans dosnot. fear it. An issue of that
kind will be the best thing we can have
In the west, while in the east nothing
can be lost by pointing out the abilities.
courage and wisdom of the President
Inc Iact Is that many men who did not
ike him a year or two ago have changed
their minds about him upon closer inves-
tlgation. l speak more particularly Of
val street ana the money centers of the
east Inese men have found that th,
president did his duty, and did it fear.
iessly and that his action has been for
the pest interests of the country The
sn shaking h,ia!s out OF watered stock has tended
f;e,,..
ginning to be more appreciated eacb day
New YORK can fairly be placed in The
uouptIul column, but the outlook is No
more favorable to the democrats than to
ticut can not be put in the same cIas.
with New York, as they are renuhIican
Wlthont doubt. Indiana will be as afaI,
,epu9aean as Iowa. 1t must be remem-
Dereo tnat we have some good polificians
In Indiana, and that Mr. Tarrart has
of that line" mas no
Other political callers with the pras,d..
were Senator Hopkins of Illinois and Ren.
kins said he called in behalf oS Up ao
stituent who was in the navy and In tronhla
lie had not discussed the beef STRIFE -.
any similar matter with the President, as
ne Iaiied 10 see where the President couiS
or would take any action in connectins,
Herewith at this time.
. Four sons of the late Rear Admiral T.v.
ior. who died in Canada few days arc.
S1~sASN OiA saS 1EcSAQGnl TO Day their
spects. They were Harry TayIor of Graa,-
port, L. l.; Fred Taylor of Boston. Roger
Taylor OF Canada and PreseIy Taylor OF
Troy, N. Y.
immigration for the South.
Frank Sargent, commissioner of immi-
grafton, was at the White House today.
Mr.. Sargent was asked about the alleged
critical scarcity of labor in the south, and
the danger to the cotton planters OF hay
Ing their cotton crops go without picking
beyond the time when they ought to be
handled. His attention was called to a
story that the bureau of immigration will
attempt to send number of Italian immi-
grants to Mississippi and other points to
aid IN picking cotton: He said that he had
not been spoken to In regard to diverting
Italian immigration to the south, but that |
q steamship line was to be established be-
tween New Orleans and Italy. beginning In
September, and he supposed 1t would
furnish GOOD deal OF Italian fmmigraffon