Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1902 — WRIGHT REPORTS ON STRIKE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WRIGHT REPORTS ON STRIKE.

Labor Cora m issioner Urircs Joint Committee on Conciliation. The report of Carroll I). Wright, the commissioner of labor, on the anthracite coal strike was made public Wednesday.

Commissi oner Wright finds that there is no confidence existing lietween the employes and their employers. This, he believes. is one of the chief causes of the difficulties between the operators and the miners. He suggests that it would bo reasonable and just for

the operators to concede a nine-hour day for a |>eriod of six months as an experiment. He thinks there should be organized a joint committee on conciliation con»i»osed of representatives of the operators and of a new union of anthracite employes, to which nil grievances should bo referred for investigation, and i# t their decision should be final and binding upon all parties and that there should he no interference with the non union men.

C. D. WRIGHT.