The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-03
WITH CHAS. w. MILLS OF PHILA
DELPHIA AND PATRICK GIL
DAY OF cLEARFIELD, PA.
NAMED BY PRESIDENT
COMMISSION OFFERS SERVICES IN
ANY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
OPERATORS AND MINERS.


Washington. = President Wilson
has announced the appointment OF
Seth Low of New York, Charles w.
Mills of Philadelphia and Patrick
Gilday of Clearfield. Pennsylvania, as
commission through which future
differences between operators and
miners involved in the present Colo
RADIO coal strike may be settled.
The commission, officials explained.
was not appointed to deal with the
xisting differences which have
caused rioting and bloodshed In Colo
RADIO. Hywel Davies and w. r. Fair
ley, the conciliators who have been
attempting to settle the strike for
several months. will continue in their
efforts to have the operators and min
ers agree on settlement of the pres
ont strike.
In statement announcing the ap-
pointment of the commission the
President expressed 'the very earnest
and sincere hope that the parties may
see it not merely to their own best
interest but also a duty which they
and to the nation itself to make use
of this instrumentality of peace and
render strikes of the kind which has
threatened the order and prosperity
of the great State of Colorado a thing
of the past"
The appointment of such a commits
sion was 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 themselves "at the services
alike of the miners and operators of
Colorado, In case controversy between
them should in the future develop cir
cumstances which would render me-
diation the obvious way of peace and
just settlement"
Wilson added that merely to
withdraw the federal troops and leave
the situation to settle itself would
seem to me to be doing something
less than my duty, after all that has
occurred"
He had been asked by Governor
Ammons OF Colorado to withdraw the
troops from some of the districts and
will discuss the question with Sec
retary Garrison of the War Depart
ment.
The original basis of agreement Of
fered by the President included the
establishment OF a three years truce
subject to the enforcement Of the
mining 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 ap-
pointment of grievance committee
by the employees. 1t provided that in
cases where the officers of the COM
pany and the grievance committee
could not settle differences. COM
mission of three men. named by the
President should step in and act as
the final referee of all disputes.
Denver.-Because the Colorado coal
strike is considered the most serious
manifestation OF Industrial unrest
which has occurred in the nation
since the appointment of the United
States commission on industrial rela-
tions, the commission has found that
it could not longer delay visit to
the state. according to Frank P.
Walsh. chairman OF the commission,
who arrived in Denver Sunday, and
began nrenaratinns for the OneninR of