Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — END IS ANNOUNCED. [ARTICLE]

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Result of Long Night Conferences at White House. PEACE IN COAL WAR. Six Men Named for Board of Arbitration by President Roosevelt Differences as to Personnel ot Com mission Are Adjusted and President Acts —Operators Yield to Demand of Miners—Bishop Spalding of Illinois Is Chosen as Representative of Labor —Agreement Comes In a Dramatic Manner. The seal strike came to a sudden, unexpected, and dramatic end in the White House in Washington at 2:20 o’clock Thursday morning. An agreement to submit the entire question to arbitration was reached at a moment when hope had almost been abandoned, and was brought abbot in a long conference between President Roosevelt, Secretary Hoot, 'Carroll L>. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, Immigration Commissioner Sargent and George W. Perkins and Robert S. Bacon, members of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., representing J. P. Morgan. * Bishop to Represent Miners. The basis of the settlement was the concession on tile part of the mine-own-ers granting to the miners the right 'to he represented on the arbitration commission, and the President at once mimed Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, 111., as the representative of the miners. This concession was made only after President Roosevelt had insistently limited ont to the representatives of the opei utnrs the absolute necessity of according to the miners a representative on the commission. Agree When Hope le Gone. The end came dramatically. Even the administration members, who had worked without resting for over a week to secure an agreement to arbitrate, hud almost lost hope. Wednesday President Roosevelt and John Mitchell were in conference at the White House twice. President Mitchell, expressing himself as anxious to cud the strike, insisted that the miners should have some representation on the arbitration commission if the operators were directly represented. On this point he was firm, and President Roosevelt agreed to present his counter demand to the operators. The result was the conference, which commenced at 10 o’clock Wednesday night nnd ended early Thursday morning. Official Statement leaned. The following official statement announcing the close of the Rtrike was issued at the White House at 2:20 a. in.: “After a conference with Mr. Mitchell, and some further conference with representatives of the coal operators, the President has appointed the members of the commission to inquire into, consider, nnd pass upon all questions at issue between the operators nnd miners in the anthracite coal fields. Makeup of the Commission. “Brigadier General John M. Wilson, U. S. army, retired (late chief of engineers, U. S. A.), Washington, L>. C\. as an officer of tlie eugineer corps of either the military or naval service of the United States. “Mr. E. W. Parker, Washington, D. C., as HU expert mining engineer. Mr. Parker is chief statistician of the coal division of the United States geological survey and the editor of the Engineering tnd Mining Journal of New York. “The Hon. George Gray, Wilmington, Del., ns a judge of a United Stntes court. “Mr. E. E. (Murk, Cedar Rapids, lowa, grand chief of the Order of Railway Conductors, ns a sociologist, the President assuming that for the purposes of such a commission the term sociologist means a uinu who has thought and studied deeply on social questions, and hns practically applied his knowledge. "Mr. Thomas 11. Watkins, Scraaton, Pa., as n mail practically acquainted with the mining and selling of coal. “Bishop John L. Spalding, of l’aoria, 111. The President lias added Bishop Spalding’s name to the commission. “The Hon. 4'nrroll I). Wright has been appointed recorder of the commission."