New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-28
Markets Dream Brightens
Outlook, Changing so
FrOwns Into Smiles.
DEMANDS GO BACK
TO SUBCOMMITTEE
$1,000 Strikers Go Back 10 Work
Near Pittsburgh-Dispute To
Be Reconsidered To-day.
Alvin Markle has Rad A vision

Alvin Markle has had a vision.
In u he saw mine owner shaking
hands with a man who looked as If
he might be miners union official
and both were smiling. He saw
miner swinging heavy dinner pail on
his way 70 work and he was smiling.
He saw the Ultimate Consumer the
vision now being projected into the
winter ahead paying a coal bill. And
wonder OF wonders, was smiling,
too.
There IS more Of point 70 Mr.
Markets vision than TO the ordinary
sort. Mr.. Msrkle is not soothssyer,
bu, president Of the Markle Coal Com
psny Of Hazel,on, Penn
When he made mention Of his vision
yesterday he was presiding at what, it
was expected, would be the final joint
session OF the operators and miners OF
the anthracite coal fields. Ever since
February the two factions, boiled down
into little subcommittee with four on
each side. had been see-sawing back
and forth over the eleven demands sub
mitted b. the mine workers.
Strike Appeared Imminent.
The two subcommittee had failed
utterly 10 reach an approximation OF
an agreement utterly that when
they qqut see-sawing last Tuesday they
decided 10 forget all they had almost
accomplished in the way Of getting to-
gether and return their whole problem
IN its raw state 10 the big arbitration
committee Of sixty.
When this commite went into session
in the Engineering Societies Building,
with Mr.. Markle IN the chair and his
vision the ofhng there was little hope
that strike. involving 10000 men-to
say nothing of Americas next winters
stove and furnace coal supply would
be averted.
Reporters made a census OF the
frowns on the faces OF the committee
members as they marched into the
council room at 1880 o'clock. There
were just sixty frowns.
For couple Of hours the committee
remained in session. Newspaper men
we're excluded from the conference and
some Of them-men who had been sent
TO New York by papers in Scranton and
Wilkes-Bsrre where an anthracite
strike would mean reign OF terror
spent the interim in recounting bloody
episodes Of the last big anthracite
troubles in 1903. which finally we're
ended by application OF Colonel Roose-
velt's "big stick
The one big point or which the men
behind the closed doors were dead
locked WAS recognition OF the union.
That the operators were unwilling 10
grant and that demsnd the miners as
resolutely refused 20 withdraw. Prac-
tically all the committee OF sixty had
met for was 70 break off negotiations
formally Then the union men intended
20 proceed 20 Pottsville, Penn. where
miners convention is 10 be held Tues
day. and where strike vote was TO
have been taken.
To Reconsider Demands.
John P. White, president OF the
United Mine Workers; John 7. Demp-
sey, president Of Anthracite District
No. of the union, and 5. D. Warmer,
OF the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Com
pany. addressed the committee Each
urged further consideration Of the
union demands before a break Each
side retired in private conference.
When they returned. still glum. Mr..
Markle bethought him OF his vision.
He described II.
That, it seems. was the turning point.
When the committee emerged sixty
smiles were counted.
The formal statement that accom-
panied the smiles was 20 the effect that
operators and miners. instead OF rush
ing into war. had agreed TO turn the
dispute back into the hands Of the sub
committees. II was also announced
that President White had recalled 70
work $4,000 miners already striking IN
District No D nutside PITTS burgh.