The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-12-01

NAMED T0DEAL
WITH STRIKE
WILL SERVE BOTH SIDES IN EF-
FORT TO GET OPERATORS AND
MINERS TO AGREE ON SETTLE
MENT OF PRESENT STRIKE.

| Washington, Nov. 3O.-PreSluent
| Wilson tonight announced the appoint
ment of Seth Low of New York, Chas
| w. Mills of Philadelphia and Patrick
Gilday of Clearfield, Pa, as commits
sion through which future differences
between operators and miners involv'
ed in the present Colorado coal strike
may be settled.
The commission officials explained,
was not appointed to deal with the
existing differences which have caused
rioting and bloodshed in Colorado. Hy-
wei Davies and w. r. Farley, the con
ciliators who have been attempting
to settle the strike for several months
will continue in their efforts to have
the operators and miners agree on
settlement OF the present strike.
In a statement announcing the ap-
pointment of the commission, the
President expressed "the very earnest
and sincere hope that the parties maye
see it not merely to be their own best
interest. but also duty which they
owe to the communities they serve ana
to the nation itself, to make use OF
this instrumentality Of peace and rem
der strike of the kind which has
threatened the order and prosperity
of the great state of Colorado a thing
of the past"
Proposed Some Time Ago.
The appointment of such commits
sion as contemplated in the plan for
temporary settlement of the strike
which the President proposed several
months ago, and which was accepted
by the miners but rejected by the op-
orators. One of the chief objections
of the operators to the plan was the
naming of the commission.
The President announced in his
statement that the commission will
place itself "at the service alike of
the miners and the operators of the
mines of Colorado in case controversy
between them should in the future de-
velop circumstances which would rem
der mediation the obvious way of
peace and just settlement"
Mr.. Wilson added that merely to
withdraw the federal troops and leave
the situation to clear and settle itself
would seem to me to be doing some
thing less than my duty after all that
has occurred.
Asked to Withdraw Troops.
He has been asked by Governor Am
mons of Colorado to withdraw the
troops from some of the districts and
will discuss the question with Secre-
tary Garrison of the war department
this week.
The original basis of agreement Of
fered by the President included the
establishment of three years truce
subject to the enforcement of the min
ing and labor laws of Colorado, the
return to work of miners who had not
been convicted of law violations; the
prohibition of intimidation of union or
non-union men, and the appointment of
grievance committee by the employ
ces. 1t provided thati n cases where
the officers of the company and the
grievance committees could not settle
differences, a commission of three men
named by the President should step
in and act as the final referee of all
disputes.
President Wilson's statement ex-
planning the naming of the commission
recalls the disorders between the Colo
RADIO miners and operators; which led
to the sending of federal troops into
the strike zone and continues in
part:
after long waiting, and the disap
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