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Show WILSON NAMES A MINE COMMISSION Three Prominent Workers in GHI Settling Labor Disputes BfiK Appointed by President. Rk8 FEDERAL MEDIATORS B& Colorado Operators Assume Kress Uncompromising Position M Situation Serious and ffiftfiy Distressing. Washington, November 30. An- TOttlnl other effort at settlement of the lKrj?gjffl Colorado coal strike troubles, moved iltvX forward today with President Wit- Hi Eon's appointment of a commission P&jj to attempt to bring the operators !B.S8 ; nd miners together. Kiw The commission Is composed of P&tB Seth Low of New York. wf&M! Charles W. Mills of Philadelphia and 1B Patrick Gilday of Clearfield, Pa , all if$J9 j of them have been prominently iden- Byffifjg titled with the settlement of labor troubles. Bjtffrjg The commission will not deal with feJl the present differences between the Kg, operators and miners, but will at- E!- tempt to settle similar disputes in the Kr&ffil tuture. Efforts to bring about a set- Kftl tlement of the present strike by an agreement between the operators and 'Kv 1 miners, it is announced, will be con- Kj tinued by the federal mediators who ffir':jx have been endeavoring for some time to adjust the controversy. They are Hywe! Da vies and W. R. Fairley. President Reviews Colorado Trouble. K, Jj The president in a statement an- R-idfc ;., nouncing the appointment of the 6". commission review-6 in detail the va-rious va-rious steps taken by the federal gov ernmeut to bring about a settlement &'r of the present trouble He then ex- Bfcv' nrutcfc tho hmir that thp nnxtift to Wfcx T: the controversy will make use of the fijk4 commission as an Instrument of B pence to prevent a repetition of slm-ilar slm-ilar troubles in the future. p President Wilson's plan for a 'em-porary 'em-porary settlement of the strike which j Ik suggested some time ago contemplated contem-plated appointment of a commission similar to the one he has just named. j r. he plan w-as accepted by the miners. j hut rejected by the operators, their principal objection being to a com-mission com-mission In referring to the rejection ot the plan the president in his t statement says: "I think the country regretted their e'ecision and was disappointed that they should have taken so uncom- promising a position I have waited and hoped for a change in their atti- tude. but now fear that there will be none. And j et I do not feel that I am at liberty to do nothing in the presence of circumstances so serious I and distressing. Merely to withdraw j the federal troops and leae the sit- 1 uation to dear itself would seem to me to be doing something less than t my duty after all that has occurred." Decides to Name Commission. r The president then says that bo I tie. ided on the appointment of a commission com-mission contemplated In the plan of temporary settlement despite its re- iectlon by tho operators in the hope that similar troubles may be amic- f ably settled in the future j The commissioners, the president announced will place themselves "at the services alike of the miners and (he operators of the mines in Colo-rado Colo-rado In case controversy between them should in the future develop f circumstances which would render mediation the obvious way of peaco and just settlement." oo |
