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Show OFFEP, OF ARBITRATION Little Doubt but What Miners Mi-ners Will Accept. i WILL BE SOME OPPOSITION This, However, Is Expected to Disappear Dis-appear When President Mitchell Explains the Proposition to the Delegates Most Difficult Question Which Will Come Up Is One Relative Re-lative to Strikers Securing Their Old Places Many Miners Want Acceptance Withheld. Wllkesbaire Ta Oct 15 What Is lrobahly th last full week of the an-thiaclle an-thiaclle coal strike closed today without with-out anything developing Id change the peaceful trenl of events It was a quiet clay at hcadquatters and a busy one In the district nnd sub-dlslrlct heudiuiitets throughout the entile coal fields on account of the election or delegate to Monday convention All the locals have met nnd slected theh lepresenlatlves to tho W likes-lurre likes-lurre gathetlng Theic seems to be little doubt thnt the convention will nccept the offer or arbitration lie pons have been lecelved lute coming principally fiom the legion mound hcranton thnt Iheie will be much op position to the acceptance of the plan but these reports are not taken seriously seri-ously at Piesldent Mitchells headquarters headquar-ters There will be opposition In the convention but It Is expected to dls-appeal dls-appeal after Mr Mitchell cxplulns tho ptoposltlon to the delegates om: mrKiccur pitoin. Probcbly the most dlfllcult question which will come before the convention is the one relitlvc to strikers securing their old places The compinles nre on reeonl ns siylng they will take rate of nil the omiloyeea who have stood by them during the sit Ike Many of the miners want the convention to withhold the ntceptinre of the arbitration arbitra-tion plan until the union la nssured thnt the strikers will be employed In their former plates This will likely nue n long debite. but the ntllclnls of the union say the miller will bo flxod up satisfactorily to all concerned con-cerned Presldnt Mitchell was asked tonight what be knew of the teport cabled to the Manchester Guardian from New "iork that J P Morgan was forced to Intervene In the eoal strike nnd In re Ply he sild WAS NOT rnftCFD TO ACT To my personal knonldge Mr Morgan has been Irving to settle the roal strike ever since he came tack from Pnrepe two months ago If others had been ns fir nnd reasonable ns Mr Morgan was the atrlke woul I have hen settled a long time aim i Know nothing aboit Mr Morgans financial Interests comielllng him to seek a settlement of the strike but I am Informed thai he his Icenlv felt his resnonslbllltt to the public In connection with the roil fimlne and haa done his beat Io bring al out the en I Hoth Mr Morfflii anl Mr Cissati nf the PennsvlvinU rnllroal were working for a settlement when Presllent Heooet made hla last and sueceaf llrnove Mr Morgan could not verv well be forced to do something which he had been Irylng to accomplish for eeveril weeks JUBTICn TO MOIIOVN I make this ititement In Justice to Mr Morgan Wa have bad no quirrel with him, and we wish none We do not fear him hit I refer hla friendship If he Is willing to give It to us 1 am rrelltahlv Informed that he Is frlendl to nrgin Ized labor As an organtaer of capital he concedes the right of labor to ortfan lae also and when labor organizations are fair and conservative he believes In dealing with them for the advantage of both empoer and employee it Is this relationship which the United Mine Work ers seek In the anthracite field anl we Invite Mr Morgan to cooperate with us In securing a permanent and scientific solution of the labor rrohlem In thla re Blon |