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Show GREAT COAL STRIKE AT END. PRESIDENT NAMES COMMISSION THAT WILL SETTLE TROUBLE:. Work If to l Itrnunitxl Ht,Onri, Common Orouncl of ,Kf"'mMit llettraen llpvr Mtura unit MlneM llnvlne lloen lteiiclifl. The great anthracite coal strike is settled at last. A commission of six persons, with a seventh, Carrol D. Wright, ns recorder, will adjust differences differ-ences between operutois and miners. President Mitchell of tho Miners' union will take the necessary measure to call the strike off. Tho president will urge Immediate resumption of mining, and operations are expected to begin next week. Organized labor has a representative on the commission In the person of K. 12. Clark, grand chief of the Order of Hailroad Conductors, named as a sociologist. so-ciologist. Tho president added 11161100 Spalding of Illinois to the list of five members suggested by the operators. As named the commission is perfectly satisfactory to both miners and operators. oper-ators. Assent of tho minors was given through President Mitchell nud Mr. Sargent, Commissioner of Immigration, nud of tlio operators through Messrs. llucon and George W. Perkins of the bunking firm of J. P, Morgan & Co. Thu following olllclul statement announcing an-nouncing tho closo of the strike was issued ul the White House at 2:20 Thursday morning. "Afleruoonfercnco with Mr. Mitchell and some further conference with representatives of tho coal operators the president has appointed the mem-burs mem-burs of the commission to Inquire Into, consider, und pass upon all questions ut isiuo between tho operators uud miners In tho anthracite coal fields. "ltrlgudler-Uoneral John M. Wilson, U. S A. (retired), ln,te chief of engineers, engi-neers, U. S. A., Washington, I), C, as nn olllcur of thu engineer corps of either thu military or uaval service of thu United States. "K. W. Parker, Washington, I). C , as an expert mining engineer. Mr. PuiUer is chief statistician of the coul division of tho United States geological geologi-cal sui vey, and editor of the Engineering Engineer-ing and Mining Journal of New York. "(leorgo Oray, Wilmington, Del., us a judge of a United States court. "13. 13. Clark, Cedar Haplds. la.. grand chief of the Order of Hailroad conductors, as a sociologist, the piesl-dent piesl-dent assuming that far the purposes of such a commission the term sociologist means u man tWio hus thought and studied deeply on social questions and has practically applied his knowledge. "Thomas II. Wutklus, Scrauton, Pa,, as a man practically acquainted with thu mining and selling of coal. "lllshop John L. Spalding of Peoria, 111. The president has added lllshop Spalding's name to tho commission. "Curroll V. Wright has been appointed ap-pointed recorder of the commission." |