Show f Y Wyk END OF or STRIKE I IS IN SI SIGHT lIT OPERATORS HAVE FINALLY DECIDED TJ ARBITRATE Way Is Now Open Opeo fora for tor a Complete Settle- Settle am m t d j It ItIs l nell Believed Believed ved Miners lInen Will ft t Soon Resume Work ork i v b y By Dy d t tJ J J. J P. P who Morgan with with his bis partner Robert Bacon and andS S Secretary Root w was s in conference nce with President Roosevelt at the temporary White Whit House louse for an hour hour and a half a statement n no was given o out t by Secretary Cortelyou in which the presidents of the coal carrying rai railroads roads a and d mine oper operators operators' lors' lors pr propose pose a a commission of five perso persons s to io adjust the differences and settle the coal strike in the an anthracite oal voal fields elds of Pennsylvania vania The proposition proposition proposition pro pro- position is believed by the administration tion to be satisfactory to the the miners as it covers covers' the proposition made by President Mitchell of the United Mine MineWorker MineWorkers MineWorkers' MineWorkers MineWorkers' Workers Workers' union with ith additional conditions conditions con con- which h it is believed the miners ers ers' will accept Th The s statement if follows The operators operators' have agreed to the appointment of a commission to be appointed by the the pres' pres president dent of the United United d' d Stat States s to whom shall be referred referred re referred re- re all 1111 questions at issue issue between the companies and their own whether wl whether hey belong to the union or not not and the the decision of the commission commission commis commis- sion sion n shall be he accepted by the operators rs The commission n is to to consist of of at atar an an n ar army y navy or-navy engineer officer and ex expert expert ex- ex pert rt mining engineer not connected with with ith the c coal l mining properties one of the judges of the United States courts of the eastern district of Pennsyl Pennsylvania vanIa a s man of prominence eminent as S a sociologist and and- and a a man who by active participation in mining and selling coal is is familiar with the physical and 9 e a r of o T r r r aVy ti f UM y The rue operators also make it its it's a paT A the proposition that the miners shall I r return turn to work as soon as the sion slon is constituted and cease all in inter interference er- er erlie r- r ference with union non n men The lie he commission is to name a date when s its findings shall be effective and to govern gov- gov gov govern overn ov- ov ern conditions of employment between between en the companies and their o own on n for at least three years Wl When en no official l statement was made the oper at the White While House Bouse after address was made public by Secretary Secre Secretary Sec Sec- re ary Cortelyou u the opinion was ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed that the way is is' now open for a complete settlement of the strike and that the mines will soon be in oper- oper tion |