Show cloin dwar in th the C grea greater teat dp 0 acal miner siriac on accord Pc cord I 1 abe great coal strike in 1 at an end by unanimous vote cf the miners con ven dention rent lon tion held at Wilkes barre pa it was agreed to submit ahli case care to the arbitration tribunal and KO go to work ot at once no conditions were attached to this acceptance accept ane president matchell itchell Ml Nl told the conven tion what the result as going to ile be therefore he felt at att to make a Kr Bonal request of the delegates chis was faa that they vote unan mian we struck as aa one nian like men WP we have stood shoulder Bh to shoulder now let us end the strike fill one voice lie he exclaimed then the lines buea tion alon vaa as pu A mighty chorus of aye rolled through the theater not ono one man responded in the negative the rebuilt was hailed with a glad about by the delta they cheered again and again seme of them threw their hats in the air the long fight m as over ator live five months and nine days of idleness men and boa boa it were kere to to worl work john splendid leadership Is agrin again triumphant not only has lie he secured the result for which he had been working but tie lie has secured it amidst gri cral satisfaction and good feeling ilia his was not an ail easy task these miners are full of the spirit of independence and self reliance they do their own oan thinking and are not at all back backward Aard about bleaking their minds dut mr mitchell Ml knew how to handle them lie gave them full 0 opportunity to express themselves every man mail had a chance to voice his sentiments ile he knew how to let them run of their own free will and how to pull them up tip at the cil moment ills his generalship was as unsurpassed ile he met inet all the of the dis contented in frank fashion lie he held out no false hopes ile he made it plain that it if the convention accepted arbi some home of the men must expect to lose the jobs which the formerly held after a few minutes reflection the mon men were in a mood to accept the ric advice ivice of their leader president mitchell Ml walked m to and from the convention hall and was as loud ly cheered by great crowds in the streets upon returning to hla his office he first sent a telegram to president roosevelt giving official notification of the action 0 of the convention and then he wired his wife at spring valley that the end of the long struggle had come at last instantly eions began to pour in by wire from a all 11 parts of the country and many people ale called to shake the hand of the modest manly leader mr mitchells Ml a work Is not done though under a groat gnat strain for many months he must now prepare his case tor for submission to the commission upon this task lie ho Is already engaged and he will A ill be ready the coal oper acors are likely to be surprised at the completeness of his case lie he will riot not content himself with nith general statements me ri is or any appeal for sympathy but ft ill present facts and flouris include ing tho thousand wand pay envelopes which will tell the tale of small wages ages for hard work the action of the miners conven tion has a deeper significance than the ending of tho the strike it 1 li 11 1 even deeper than the vindication of ibUra Uon as a 8 last resort in putting an end to deadlocks between libor and capt tal the ireat cst and most tarr farr euch ing 1119 lesson of tho the hour Is this the mixed and belt belf reliant workers of this region must be treated fairly find and handled skill skillfully full or they will mako make trouble the have caught the model n spirit of organization Lation and the univ eikal Arnet icart demaud demand for better conditions of living A union they hase haie anti and ate aie going to have that they an to tog getter etc during a long siege I 1 without and without flinch ing they have conclusively shown that the majority of them are intelli gent law abiding men who want only a fair chane chame and decent wages with out making exorbitant edmands dm ands la Is ap al out such as the and stan ton in many mines gan gangways gays that are just as they were ere when the men threw doin their picks picka must be clerked up the passageways eways fiust be tested for gas gaa for the records show that with the opening up of long closed there Is dangcil or of life and limb and to avoid this as ai far as possible every precaution la Is taken filch means delay in man mani cases rapid pio greEs Is being made by all the companies compan lej toward a genethal re of mining the I 1 be question of the employment of nonunion which aih at one time A 0 rak 4 11 apa J vv X 7 I 1 21 aa 0 o V MITCHELL ADD addressing conar convention ALON parent to every ery absei ei who ho attended tills this co convention mention our picture president mitch el eil the convention when he struck the he keynote of the ile he said 1 I deslie to inform you that the president nt of the united mine workers has done all he can to learn the attl tude tilde of the toward the nien men on strike we cannot negotiate with but buit through others e have the as assurance surane that they bonsai consent c n t to meet the 1913 issues Lies fairly that th they ey will not blacklist any man that they are riot not vindictive lindic tive and that as far as poss possible IhIe the men will bo be given their old places it will take some time for to be ba generally ies resumed umed and some may not ret get work at all 1 ou must understand this when you ou vote strikers r asbed back bach to the mines on the lav dav set for resumption of work and the mine managers declared the coal output vill aall be large enough to relieve all parts of if the country before sencie weather meather bets in the coal sor tage Is estimated at t from 1 26 6 WO to 30 tons and it aali take 00 aars of steady work to tiring bring the supply back to normal conditions returns room the field show that hardly mori than man 75 men i ic turned to voik at once bebau e of the ton con of many of the mines due to the long months cf r 1 wideness in the willest Wilkes larre arre district there are col that ate aie completely drowned threatened to become a serious ob stacle in ili the way aay of settlement la N likely to adjust its iosif if all oi oer er the district from many collieries colli olli eries comes the atory that the nonunion men left voluntarily in ili large numbers lu in a very verv short tinie time it i be hard to find any considerable gumbei in the an thia cite field the engineers firemen and pump men will be a cause of file tion for ome time to tome come although it Is be lieveld this trouble too will adjust it self in ill time |