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Show END OF STRIKE IS IN SIGHT OPERATORS HAVE FINALLY DECIDED T3 ARBITRATE. Wny I Now Open for a Complete Settlement, Settle-ment, and It I Hollered Mluers Will Soon Heiume Work. Ry authority of J. P. Morgan, who, with his partner, Hobert liacon, and Secretary Hoot was in conferenco with President Hoosevclt at the temporary White House for an hour and a half, a statement was given out by Secretary Cortelyou, In which the presidents of the coal carrying railroads and mine operators propose a commission of five persons to adjust the differences and settle the coat strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania. The proposition pro-position is believed by the admlnlstra. tlon to be satisfactory to tho miners, as it covers the proposition made by President Mitchell of the United Mioo Workers' union, with additional con dllions, which, it Is believed, the miners will accept. The statement follows: Tho operators have agreed to the appointment of a commission, to be appointed by the president of the United States, to whom shall be referred re-ferred all questions at Usue between the companies and their own employes, whether they belong to the union or not, and the decision of the commission commis-sion shall heuccepted by the operotors. Tho commission is to consist of an army or navy engineer officer, and expert ex-pert mining engineer not connected with the coul mining properties, ono of the judges of the United States courts of tho eastern district of Pennsylvania, u man of prominence, eminent us a bociologist, und a man who, by active participation in mining and selling coal, is familiar with tho physical and commercial features of the business. The operators also make It a part of tho proposition that the miners shall return to work as soon as the commission commis-sion is constituted und ceuso all Interference Inter-ference with non-union men. The commission Is to name u date when its findings shall be effective und to govern gov-ern conditions of employment between the companies und their own employes for nt (oust three years. When no ofiiciul slntument.was mndo at the White House after the operators' oper-ators' address wus made public by Secretary Sec-retary Cortelyou, tho opinion wus expressed ex-pressed thut tho way is now open font complete settlement of the strike und that the mines will soon be in operation. |
