The chronicle=news., 1914-11-30
WILSON NAMES THREE |I
(Cssliavea frsa usge ~

/ tC~ntlaueA from usge ~
. quest, to serve as members of the
commission. | owe to these Scntlcl
men, my own warm thaCks, not only.
but alco l believe the thanks OF their
fellow citizens throughout the toun-
! try They will place themselves at
the services alike of the miners and
operators OF the mines In Colorado in
| case controversy between them
should In the future develop cir
| cumstances which shows mediation
the obvious way of pence and Just
settlement f.F.
Denver, Colo, Nov. 30.-'I know
of no controversies between coal COM
| panies and their employees that reId
dered mediation the obvious way OF
settlement. said Jesse r. Welborn.
president of the Colorado Fuel and
| iron company when advised of the
ap pDOintment of federal commission
! by President Wilson to mediate in
future between coal operators and
sheir employees.
| IAN serious troubles IN the Colo
RADIO coal fields have bcan caused by
labor organizations trying to, force
! their regime on the busl:,esss against
the wishes OF the workmen and their
employers. If the commission just
appointed by the president can pre-
vent she labor organization rcspOn-
sible for Colorado's present trouble
I, from bringing about another. strike
solely Tor recognition of the union. n
great service will be rendered aud
strikes of the kind from which we
.i.are How 80 ffering will 10 thing of
the past. The difficulty under which
Colorado mines are wori:!ng today is
to find u market for Their coal Many
mines are Idle because CT poor busi-
ness. Mines working are, employing
more men than they wee before the
strike and in October had within
300 OF the number employed by all
the mines when the strike was called
but on account OF light business can
not give them steady wtrk and can
not give employment to the large
number daily applying for work
The most apparent efforts of Mcssrs.
Davies and Farley toward set
Element OF the present strike. have
been The preparation of the truce
proposal which they presented to the
president and the authorship OF
which was claimed by the United
Mine Workers Of America.
Tie actual coal m,ners protested
against the acceptance by the opcrat-
ors of that proposed truce and many
If not most of them would have left
our employ had we accepted 1t. There
are not more than 1000 of our for
mer employees now out on strike. We
believe 1t to be our duty to respect
the wishes aud rights of the 1l.4GG
men working in October rather than
the LOCO not working
/ No statement was issucd last night
by representatives OF the United
Mine Workers Of America John
Mclennnn. president OF distric, No.
10. could not be veachetl. ti0vernor
Ammons expressed the hope that the
new federal mediation commission
would assist in solving any further
controversies that might arise in the
Colorado coal fields, adding that he
though, the problem would work
itself out
| He inttmItcd that he would enter
more rullr into II discrssion of the
shnlec' III statement Ecforc the in
dnstria' relations comiIttcc which
VIII oorn strike inquiry here this
/ : eek.
| lui.anLpolis. Ind. Nov 3O.-The
Colorado coal strike situation was 10
form one of the principal topics of
tn" "djourncd meeting o; tho cNccu-
tiN" board OF tho United Mine Work.
~ oi America Mt the uaion head
, quarters here today. John p. White,
''"esid"nt OF the organization. said
/ the unfinished business left over
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