Show I COMMERCE DEAD IN COAL REGION 4 Business Men Are Getting Out of the Country I GOV STONE INTERVIEWED I PLAIN STATEMENT OF OP PACT FACT BY PEOPLES ALLIANCE C b T PA Sept 11 liThe UThe The JH 11 conference committee of or the Peo ples pies Alliance Alane appointed at convention at last lut Thursday appeared alre before Governor Stone Stona this afternoon and submitted a a plan for tor effecting a a settlement of ot the anthracite Mal goal Gl strike Their Ther plan consists of oC rail call railing cn calling ing an a extra ext s of ot the thc legislature tur to enact enet laws Jaws for compulsory arbitration tion Uon better tetter ta control of or foreign corpora corporations doing oft business in Pennsylvania nail and aa enforcing the th sixteenth and seven seventeenth articles of ot the constitution Attacked the Trusts D J McCarthy of ot Hazleton said sid the alliance represented the te business people of or the th col districts and that its pur purpose purpose pose p was wag to secure sur a settlement of the strike He suggested that If I an extra session on te S Ii held some me action acton should bo be betaken taken to curb th the great get foreign corpora corporations corpor corporations which are doing doin business in Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania He attacked the beef bt trust the th steel tel trust and an other large corpora corporations corpor tiona Uon because baus of or the alleged high prices price which they charge for their products Mr McCarthy MCarthy said hI Baer of ot the Philadelphia Reading company to in 1 the cretul of or J P I Morgan and the latter later should be b forced tore to compel Mr Beer Baer Hier to arbitrate the strike s ik A load of or coal cl cannot be b boughtin bought in the coal cl region at It present pre tt from the large corporations at any price If I the legis logic legislation lation Is enacted which the alliance rec recommends it I will wm bring the strike to tb an ani anie end e and an prevent future strikes I Measures Propose Mr Mr McCarthy cCarthy argued argue that the present present difficulty In n the coal col region comes through the gross mismanagement of or orth the th great gret coal col corporations None of these the corporations he said Mid pays pS a a div dividend divIdend white while the tile individual operators are art all al making money mOH and getting rich Relief Relict can cn be 0 granted he contin continued ted e by enacting legislation that will wi enforce enCore the sixteenth and seventeenth article of the state constitution Ar Article t tide 16 mako It I unlawful for any op operator crater or superintendent to employ any an person pe n as tire fire fre boss boas bo who has hns not ob oh obtained tamed taine a certificate te of competency and article arUel IT I prohibits any boy under 12 years yer of ot age a e or OP a woman from work workIng workIng workIng Ing In a coal COI mine and an also als prohibits a H a boy by under 16 years ears of or age ag from min mining minIng ing tag er or loading coal business S Paralyzed T C Parker of or said sid the conditions In the anthracite regions are horrible in a a commercial way ay and that hundreds hd s of or people are being forced forc to leave that locality because bause of ot these thes conditions The Beat lt residents are go going goIng going ing away awa leaving the region with wih a n remnant of undesirable people The only remedy remeY he said sid is an extra eec ses session Se sion slon lon of ot the legislature for the enactment of or laws that will wi settle the trouble to the Ule satisfaction of or all AU concerned |