Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-22 | Page 4 | President of Mine Workers is Arbiter

I PRESIDENT OF MINE WORKERS IS ARBITER Coal Miners of the Bay City and Saginaw, Mich., District Return to the. PitB. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept- 21. Three thousand coal miners of the Bay City and &aglnaw, Mich., district, will go back to work Tuesday after a week's Idleness, Idle-ness, as the result of a conference held here tonight between representatives of miners and opeiators. John P. White, Intcrnatiomil president of the United Minn Workers of America, was named arbiter of the dispute, which will be presented to him Thursday at his headquarters head-quarters in Indianapolis. The unofficial strike of the miners started Inst Monday following the dismissal dis-missal of three miners. Operators asserted as-serted the dismissal did not conflict with the terms of a hlanket contract existing exist-ing between Michigan miners, and operators, op-erators, and the miners maintained the dismissals vlolalt?d the contract. President Presi-dent White will decide whether tho dispute dis-pute is subject to arbitration, and if not will act as jude of the conditions which led the the discharge of the miners. min-ers. "There Is no doubt that the supervision supervi-sion of mines and miners' affairs could be done better by the national department depart-ment of labor than the department of the Interior, under which It Is now," said Mr. White. "Regardless of the men at the heads of the two departments now. the commerce and labor department could handle our questions better. We shall favor action by congress to make this change ''