Show government ownership or compulsory arbitration ten or 1 tave years ago a con oil gressional committe undertook to lo inquire into among the miners in tho the anthracite coal region agents agenda mado mad it house bouse to houde canvass of the tie homes conics of tile hie abid reported the most abject poverty ns generally y exist existing irig lu iu one of jhb miners minera cabins I 1 the he only food was that hut of the carcass of a dug dog A Mir number riber of ani acis appeared before the commission and described conditions similar to thoice now related to tile the A Se senator necked a witness why lie and thew the other her grieved aggrieved d 19 miners did not go eo west where con conditions ditlow were i pore more favorable the witness replied at having baving work onty only about half bullof of the tinie time they were in debt to tile the compi iny stores behind on rent coul coal nod and other bills billa that the coal companies would not permit them to lo leave until I 1 heir debts were paid if said the witti witness etis yon will tell us how we can go west ivest god knows anve will wiil gladly do ya 0 o 11 so S for as any improvement in co conditions adi was wah concerned tile the labora of that congressional committo were void of I 1 ru Milts there was ans no law behind the investigation nor did the inquiry become the basis for anything more sub st artial than a outpouring of sentiment the st strike rike commission now silting at scranton Sc runton hus hos no authority beyond tile miners and operators to enforce its decrees and their sett settlement lemont of the controversy will not extend to more than a year or two when the name deplorable conditions wll again confront the miners aud and the public ta that hat depends on oil the anthracite legion for fuel until such time as the majority of the voters are ara educated up to tile the realization rt that government ownership of those coal innas mod and the of distribution to i 14 3 the only permanent and equitable solution of the problem a court of arbitration bit ration should be by low law to effo ce aib decrees |