Show PLAN TO SETTLE STRIKE 0 OUTSIDE OF COMMISSION Adjournment of Arbitrators Believed to Forecast an Agreement Between the Operators and nd Miners SCRANTON Pa Nov 21 It It It was learned this Rrt afternoon that efforts are being made or will be bo made to settle the difficulties existing between n the workers mine-workers and the employers outside outside the commission appointed by the President and it is said the contemplated adjournment will be betaken betaken betaken taken in order to give both sides a n chance to get together Remarks made by Judge Gray just before the commission adjourned suggest this conclusion None Hone of ot the attorneys on either side will Bay say anything regarding the matter but it is understood here that in the interval interval in in- such an effort will be made SCRANTON Pa Nov No 21 The rhe The examination examination ex ex- of pr Dr R. R H. H Gibbons of ot Scranton was Immediately resumed when the anthracite strike commission slon met today Ho Ile f said ald that the occupation occupation occupation tion of at a a. miner subjects a a. man to pleurisy gout neuralgia asthma bronchitis sciatica and other diseases He believed the day would come when men will be subjected to medical examination examination examination ex ex- before they undertake mi ml- ning Children he said who have suffered suffered suf sut- erell from Crom any form orm of or dl disease ase of ot the respiratory respirator passage bronchitis or pneumonia should never ne be permitted in ht the mines und under r the a age e of ot 1 13 15 years yeah because the they should have a chance to eliminate the time predisposing factor In the case of ot so-called so miners miner's asthma Differs With Others Dr Gibbons then described the surface surface sur sur- face ace indications of oC miners miner's asthma his testimony In this respect not differing essentially from that given by other expert witnesses On further examination Dr Gibbons said he did not mean to be understood as s saying th that t miners form torm an unhealthy unhealthy un un- un- un healthy health class cloas but that they are debilitated debilitated debilitated debili debili- and run down The witness was examined cross by James H H. Torrey for tor the Delaware Hudson company compan In reply to a question question ques ques- tion Dr Gibbons said he did not believe believe be be- lieve there was was an ambulance In the entire coal re region lon that had sterile blankets or that the vehicles were sterile Miners in Poorhouse Dr Gibbons was followed by Dr Eugene Eugene Eugene Eu Eu- gene J. J Butler a n. mem member r of or the thc Central Central Central Cen Cen- Poor Board Doard of ot Luzerne count county who Soho testified that 70 per cent of ot those in one 0 of the of oC Luzer Luzerne ne coun county were miners minert and alid that 40 10 per 91 count t d db mi d s It an and about the miner Many of ot these he sL said hi have become become be- be come Insane U through rough worry over o their A man who works a few fe years ears as a miner he lie declared is not lit fit for tor anything else ehe 1 A. A H H. McClIntock representing the Lehigh Coal Coat company examined cross-examined the witness 8 and asked if It It was not true that a large Jarge number of or the professional men n and 11 merchants merchant In were men whoso whose Cathers fathers fathers fath fath- ers and grandfathers had been employed employed em em- in the thc mines Got Out In Time If JC that is en 80 so the witness replied the fathers and grandfathers were tho the wise fellows who got out in time They were not men who worked for tor twenty or twenty live years In the mines Dr Butler was excused and the Rev Dr Roberts was called caned to the stand his examination being conducted by Mr Ir Darrow for tor the mine Ho lie reiterated his belief expressed in his book that an Intelligent and persistent combination among miners for Cor tho the maintenance of or prices and rates of or wages would secure a just share of oC tho the profit for tor the workers Combination of Operators In answer to Commissioner Clark Dr DI Roberts defined the use of ot the words anthracite syndicate In his book b by saying he had reached the conclusion conclusion con con- that there was an an understanding understand understand- ing among amon the operators to adjust the prices and anel regulate the trade This conclusion he had reached from personal personal per ver- Investigation of ot the last Jast strike Mr Darrow Darrow Darrow Dar Dar- row asked and everything that has occurred since have your our views as to the desirability of oC bargaining in the anthracite regions been modified or strengthened or have they changed at atall atall all Strengthened decidedly the wit witness witness ness replied Poverty Line After Arter reading extracts from an article article article arti arti- cle in a magazine supposed to have been heen written by Dr I Roberts Mr tr Darrow Darrow Dar Dar- row asked what was as the temper tamper of or both parties during the live five months o of the strike The Thc witness replied that it was a condition of war and that both sides were Intemperate Dr Roberts j n J pl to a qu slon as wages to American ot of living lI said Jr that he would place the poverty po line at 57 per Ier annum Under that amount he said the miner and his family would suffer physically intellectually and menta mentally |