The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, October 17, 1902, Image 1
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_BERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17,A WE i A
GREAT COAL STRIKE
IJAS BEEN SETTLED;
VONO4IONs MAIDI BY OrulATORS
AND OPIITIVICB.
An VhItration PyopOsitIon Came From the
Q riat-or I hrough I-rpoot Morgein,
a Monday-ette,tent of Strhe
Followed Early Thuraday Morn
los ,YCommissio, to Adjust
DIft:rences.
The'great anthracite coal strike
is settled at last. A commission of
six persons,. with a seventh, Mr.
Carroll D. Wright, as recorder,
* will adjust differences between
. 'operators and miners. President
Mitchell of the miners will take the
uecessary measures to call the strike
off. The president will urge imme
diate.:resumption of mining and
operations are expected to begin
'next week.
Announcement that the great
strike was off was made by Secre
tary Root with. exuberant good
humor at the White House shortly
after v o'clock Thursday morning.
Organized labor "as a representa
tive on the comtmission in the per
son of E. E Clark, grand chief of
the Order of Railway Conductors,
named as a sociologist. The presi
dent added Bishop 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. Assent of the miners
was given through President Mitch
ell and Mr. Sargent, commissioner
of i&1migration and of the operators
through Messrs. Robert Bacon and
George W. Perkins, of the banking
firm of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co.
The final outcome followed a series
of conferences, beginning with two
during Wednesday with Mr. Mitch
ell and two during Wednesday
night with Messrs. Bacon and Per
kins. Events moved quickly at the
last, the president being deter,
mined on a speedy settlement. .
The commission will assemble in,
a few days and choose a chairman,
probably Gen. Wilson. It then
will arrange for sessions and testi
mony.
The following official announce,
ment of the close of the strike was
issued at the White House at 2:20
a. m. Thursday morning.
After - a confe' ce with Mr.
Mitchell and some: further confer
once with representatives of the
o operators, the president has
'ppointed the members of the com
,nIsot to inquire into, consider
ai4 pass upon all questions at
14 between -the operators and
tlVOe Itn the anthracite coal fields:
N*Ig.Geh. John M. W;ilson, U.
84,~ retired (late chief of engi
,M#s U. S. A.), Washington, D. C..
as an officer of the engineer corps
of either the military or naval ser
vice of the United States.
M. E. W. Parker, Washington,
D. C.--as an expert mining engi
neer. Mr. Parker is chief statis
tician of the coal disvision of the
United State.s geological survey
and the editor of the Engineering
and Mining Journal of New York.
Hon. George Gray, Wilmington,
Del., as a judge of a United States
court.
Mr. IE. E. Clark, Cedar Rapids,
Ia., grand chief of the Order o1
Railroad Conductors-as a sociolo
gist, the president assuming that
for thd purposes of such a commnis
sion the term sociologist means a
man who has thought and studied
deeply on social questions and has
practically applied his knowledge.
Mr. Thomas H. Watkins, Scran
ton, Pa., as a man practically ac
quainted with the mining and sell
ing of coal.
Bishop John L, Spalding, of Peo
ria, Ill. The President has added
Bishop Spalding's name to the comn
mission.
Hon. Carroll D. WVright has
been appointed recorder of the com
mission.
The settlement of the strike fol
lowed closely the
Proposition of' the Operators.
At a conference held at the White
House on Monday nigh t ofti
week, at which were present J. Pier
pont Morgan, Robert S. Bacon, one
of Morgan's partrurs, Secretary Root,
Secretary Ooetelyou, and President
Roosevelt, the following statement,
explaining the position of the mine op
erators in reference to the Penney1.
vania coal strike, and stating the con
ditions under which they would agree
to arbitration, which had been pre
pared by the managers of the dif
ferent coal s properties, was laid be
fore the President by Mr. Morgan.
The statement was then given to the
press and the public by Secretary
Cortelyou.
TIE OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Secetary Cortelyou, by authority
of those preent at the' White House,
made pubho the following autho
rized batement concerning the con.
ference:
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan came to
Washington with his partner, Mr.
Bacon, at the request of the com
panies, who desired that as a matter
of courtesy their statement should
be shown to the president before it
was made public. Having been
laid uefore the president by Mr. Mor
gan, it is now given to the press.
To the Public:
The managers of the different coal
properties comprising the anthracite
coal fields, wish their position in the
present strike to be understoQd, and
therefore make the following state
mnent of facts:
There are in the anthracite regions
about 75 operating companies and
[irma and 147,000 miners and work
men (of which 30,000 are under age)
30mprising some 20 nationalities and
3ialects.
Of these workmen possibly one
balf belong to the United Mine
Workers' Union, of which Mr. John
Kitchell is president. That organ
ization was originally formed in the
cituminous coal region, and three
lourths of its members are miners of
bituminous coal, and bituminous coal
is sold 'in " active -competijion with
rntbracite coal.. The remaining work
neu in the anthracite fields either
)elong to no union whatever or do
:it belong to the Mine Workers'
Union.
he;present atrike was declared by
he Mine Workers' union on the ?Oth
lay of, May, 1902.. Since that time
nany- workmen not belonging to or
iot willing to follow that organiza.
ion were working in and about the
nines. From 17,000 to 20,000 are
iow at work. Many more have
wished to work but.have been prevent
3d by a course of violence and intimi
lation towards those workmng, and
~oward their families, accompanied
by the destruction of properties and
the fear of death or bodily harm to
avery man who wishesi to exercise
bis right to work.
A schedule is annexed hereto
showing some of the things done to
areate this reign of terror, and every
instance stated can be verified by
reference to the officers of the lawv
sivil and military-in the anthracite
region. This violence has continued
and steadily increased notwithstand
ing repeated disavowals by Mr.
Mitchell, and it is clear be either can.
not or will not prevent it, and that
the rights of the o'ber workmen can
not be protected under his supre.
macy from mine workers' union.
wHrY ARBITRtATION WAs DECLINED.
The coal companies believe that
the wages paid in the coal regions
are for and full and all the business
in its normal condition has been
able to stand if the capital invested
is to have any reasonable return.
The profits have been small, severa,
of the companies have become bank
rupt and been reorganized several
times. Several have not paid divi
dends, and the dividends of the
of the others have been a small re
turn for the capital invested. It is not
however, the patrpose of this state
ment to discuss this question. The
undersigned are not, and never have
b)een, unwilling to snbmit all ques
tions between them and their work.
men to any fair tribunal for decision.
They are not willing to enter Into
arbitration with the mine workers'
union, an organization chiiefly com
posed of men in a rival and compe
titive interest, and they na not wil
ing to make, any arrangement whiel
will not secure to the men now work
ing, and all now or hereafter wishing
to work, whether they belong to the
mice workers' union or not, the righl
and opportuinity to work in safet3
and without personal insult or bodil)
harm to themselves or their families
For these -reasons the arbitrationE
heretofore proposed have been de
clined.
It will be remembered that at the
conference in Washington October 8,
we made the following offer: That
we would take up at each colliery
any alleged grievance, and in the
event of a failure to make a satisfac
tory adjustment of the questions at
issue to be submitted to the final
decision of the judges of the court
of common pleas of the district in
which the colliery is located. This
offer was made by us in good faith
and we desire here to reaflim it.
The coal companies realize that
the urgent public need of coal, and
the apprehension of an inadequate
supply for the approaching winter
calls for an earnest effort to reach a
practical conclusion which will re.
sult in an increased supply, and the
presidents of the companies desire
to make every effort to that end
which does not involve the aban
donment of the interests committed
to their care and of the men who are
working and seeking to work in
their mines. This responsibility
they must bear and meet as best
they can.
TnE OPERATOHs' PROPORsTION.
They therefore restate their posi
tion: That they are not discriminat
ing against the United Mine Work
ers: but they insist that the miners'
union shall not disariminate against
ar refuse to work with non-union
men; that there shall be no restric
tion or deterioration in quantity or
quality f work, and that owing to
the varying physical conditions of
the anthracite mines each colliery is
a problem by itself.
We suggest a commission be ap
pointed by the President of theUnited
States (if he is willing to perform
that public service) to whom shall
be referred all questions at issue be
tween the respective companies and
their own employes, whether they
belong to a union or not, and the
decision of that commission shall be
accepted by us.
The commission to be cons'ituted
as follows:
. 1. An officer in the engineer corps
of either the military or naval ser
vice of the United States.
2. An export mining engineer, ex
perienced in the mining of coal and
other minerals, and not in any 'way
connected with coal mining proppr
ties, either anthracite or bituminous.
3. One of the judges of the United
States courts of the eastern district
of Pennsylvania.
4. A man of prominence, eminent
as a sociologist.
5. A man who, by active partici.
pationi in mining and selling coal, is
familiar with the physical and com
mercial features of the business.
WILL BE IMMEDIATELY EFFEcTIvE.
It being understood immediately
upon the constitution of the com
mission in order that idleness and
non prodluction may cease instantly,
the minrors will return to wvork and
cease all interference with and per
secution of any non union men wh(
are working or shall hereafter work
The findings of this commission shal]
fix the date when the same shall be
exffective, and shaill govern the con
ditions of employment between the
respective companies and their owr
emplos for a termr of at least thrrei
years.
George F. Baker, president Phila
delphia and Reading Coal and Iror
company, Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Coal company and Temrple Iron comn
pany.
E. B. Thomas, chairman Penn
sylvania Coal company, Tillside Con
and Iron comrpany.
WV. H. TLrues.dale, president Doea
ware anid L'ickawarnna and Westte
Railroad company.
T. P. Fowler, president Scrantoi
Coal company, Elk IHill Coal an<
iron company.
RI. M. Olynhant n)esit 1nt.
ware and Hudson company.
Alfred Walters, president. Lehigh
Valley Coal company.
A note appended to the statement
reads:
"The schedule referred to in this
statement was not brought from New
York as it had not been completed."
PRESIDENT MITCIIHLL,
of the mine operators' union, when
seen by a representative of the Asso
ciated Press on Tuesday, the day
following the proposition of the
operators given above, gave out the
following statement:
"I fully appreciate with what anx
iety the people of our country are
awaiting the end of the coal strike.
The coal operators have not ad
dressed the' miners' union or its
officers in making their public state
ment. It is therefore impossible for
me to state the attitude of the min
ers at this time. I am now, as I
have always been, deeply solicitous
of the interests of the public and the
welfare of the mine workers who
have been on a strike for the past
five months. A formal statement
defining our position and intentions
will be issued just as soon as we are
in possession of the full meaning of
the proposition of the operators."
This statement was made by him
at 8 o'clock after a silence lasting
all day. He had no intention of
making it until the correspondents
representing newspapers all over the
country called on him in a body and
informed him that the general pub.
lie desired to have an answer to the
proposition of the operators. After
giving it he was asked many ques
tions regarding the attitude of the
men and the probability of the no.
ceptance or rejection of the new
offer, but he had no reply to make
to any of these questions. He de
nied that he had any knowledge of
what the new offer of the operators
was until it became public property,
and also denied that he was in tele.
phonic communication with Presi
dent Roosevelt. His attention was
called to the fact that most of the
information from Washington indi
cated that the proposition would be
accepted and that the strike was
near at an end, but he stoutly main
tained that neither his officers nor
the rank and file of the men' had done
anything to cause such an impres
sion to go out.
The district presidents also main
tain silence as to their personal
opinion on the proposition, except.
ing President Fahy, who after he
arrived from Boston today gave an
inkling as to how he viewed thie new
turn of affairs. In reply to a query,
lie said:
"The strike cannot be settled with
out the consent of the men. WA
are not dealing in gold bricks of any
kind, and you can make any deduc
tion from that you want."
Alexandre Young, corporation
counsel of Hudson county, N. Y.,
has been arrested for kidnapping his
own child. After the granting of a
divorce to Young and his wife, Mrs.
Young was given custody of the
child, and this makes the third at
tempt of the father to steal it.
Only a Penny.
"'Only a penny," I heard them say,
A penny for Jesus, if given each day,
Would send the Go'pel to every soul
Now sitting in i arkness, from pole to pole,
Only a penny fromt every one.
Who bears the name of God's own Son.
Only a pennyl How small a sutu,
Bly the side of millions that go for rumt,
To ruin the bodies and( souls of men,
Or the millions that end in smoke- and
then,
A penny apfece from every one
Who is savedl by the death of God's own
Only a p)enniy from young anid old,
From the little lambs within the fold;
Fronm the urphanied and widowed ones
who share
Wiuth all God's poor, in the Shepherd's
care,
- Only a penny apiece fronm every one
I Who prays in the atnae of God's own Son.
Only a peniny to show our love
-To im who left his home above
r For this very work; and whose last com,
mnand
L4eft this mission to Christians in every
land
IOnly a penny from every one
To send the Gospel of God's own Son.
- Excha,wge.
ANYTHINU ANYWHEIC.
Urtof P$rag,%phe OtvIlog Nome of the
Happ ntnge of the World of Men.
Two men were killed, four fatally
and others seriously injured in a
mine explosion at Pawnee, Illinois,
Monday afternoon. The explosi-.
was caused by too much powder in a
blast, the concussion causivg the coal
duHt to explode with great force.
Those killed were 4,000 feet away
from the point where the shot was
fired.
Ambassador C toate and Gene.
Corbin, Wood and Young were the
guests of King Edward at a lunch
eon at Buckinghan Palace on Mon
day in honor of Lord Kitchener,
prior to the latter's departure for
India. The health of Roosevelt was
proposed.
It is thought that at least one hun.
dred graves in Indianapolis have
been despoiled within the last three
months by medical students. Four
dead bodies were found tied in sacks
in a dry goods box in the rear of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons
this week.
An aerounaut, De Bradsky, and
his engineer, Morin, were killed by
falling from a dirigible balloon near
Paris on Monday. The ropes by
which the car was fastened to the
balloon broke from some unknown
cause, and the occupants were dashed
to the ground, meeting instantaneous
death. The balloon disappeared in
the clouds.
Governor Odell opened the New
York State Republican campaign in
Brooklyn with a number of speeches
on Monday night. He asserts the
right of the State to intgrvene in the
coal strike.
A north bound fast mail, running
at a speed of forty miles an hour,
left the track near Greensboro, N. C.,
on Tuesday, and went jumping on
the cross-ties for more than two hun
dred yards, part of the distance in
cluding a high embaukinent, steel
trestle and sharp curve. The train
was loadetl with passengers, and it is
almost miraculous that no one was
hurt and the train very littlo dam
aged.
Clarence H. ivlackay has been
elected president of the Commercial
Cable Company and the Postal Tele
graph Cable Company, to succeed
his father.
Thu,'rime of CIrousn,al EICdenuce.
History is full of instances where
innocent men have been hung for
murder and other,crimes on circum
stantial evidence, t,be facts of the
case frequently not being known
until many years after the tragic
mistake has been made, but proba
b)ly no circumstance of this kind has
ever carried with it a more shocking
realization of the.enormity of a man's
life being taken b)y the law because
ci rcumst,ances are apparently against
him than a-case the details of which
have recently been published.
Ini Richmond, Va , on October the
third, John Wesley Hicks, con
victed of the murder of Milton
Bourne, his son-in law, was hanged
at Louisa Courthouse.
Just twenty years ago, a man was
hanged in Virgiuin because circum
starntial evidlence pointed M0 the con
clusion that he had murdered for
their money an old man and his wife
named Massey. So strong was the
evidence that everyone believed that
the prisoner committed the crime;
but the sequel proves that lawyers,
judge, jury and public were wrong.
The sequel -is this: ,Just before
Hicks paid the death penalty last
week he publicly confessed that he
hail committe'd the crime for which
another had paid his life, detailhng
the circumstances in such a manner
as left no dloubt in L is hearers' minds
as to his'own guilt and the martyr.
(100 of the man who had dlied assert
ing his innocence.
A gnood lesson tbis for judge and
juiry. -.
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Ogsters!
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BROILED OR RAW.
Tenderloin Steak,
Fish, Game, Ham
and Eggs, Etc.
COOKED
- IN FIRST-GLASS MANNER -|
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S. B. JONES'
RESTAURANT.
DRINKS!
Our Soda Fountain
offers so many de
licious and whole
some Drinks that
we know not which
to mention first.
Our Ginger Ale
is in great demand be
cause so refreshing.
Unfermented Grape
Juice Beverages are
popular. Of course
there is nothing quite
takes the place of our
Milk Shakes. Come
here for your Soda
Drinks.
Maves' Drug Store.
P. S. Order your Cream
by the gallon from us.
Now Flilitil re Store!
When you are ini Newberry don't
fail to call at~ the New Furniture
Store of
- SHELLY aDEAN,
back of M imnaugh's, on Friendi street,
to buy your Frurniture. Their goods
are all new and just from the fac
tories, up to date ini tinish, style and
workmanship. We carry a full line of
suits,
Beds, Bureaus,
Safes, Ohairs,
Rockers, Tables,
in fact everything in the house fur
nishing line. We are also prepared
to do first class repair wvork on
Watches, Clocks, .Jewelry, Musical
Instruments, Sewing Machines and
Furniture of all kinds. Give us a
trial and be convinced that we are
the cheapest in town.
Yours for low priccs,
Newberry, 8. 0.
I Have
Just returned from the North with
a beautiful selection of
Jewelry,
Clocks and
Silverware,
and invite you all to inspect them.
Prices Reasonable,
Your Watch and Olook work solic
ited, andl( work guaranteed.
Thanking you for past favors, and
hoping for a continuance, I am yours
for the mloney.
Jeweler and Or tcn .
PARTY'S OPPORTUNITY
AS SEEN BY C1EVELAND,
EXPBIK5C1)EN r 11tCI 1 s V. THI %T 411E
111MIC 138 ai1'1
For a De"anorwtto Viet orr +te- pubelbana
Should Not M Peritlttrd to Ocoopy
Our Tariff Retorm Grond-Pight
ing 4Ibouein't Cooee.
To representative of The New
York Evening Post, who asked him
his views in tegard to the outlook, for
and t he dirty of the Democracy in
the approaching congressional elea
tions, ex President Grover. Cleveland
said:
"It seems to me that if the Demo
cracy is really in earnest it cannot
fail largely to increase its representa
tion in the next congress, but in
order to do so I think there must be
a constant. and stalwart insisteIlce
upon the things which are recognized
by all to be true Democratic doc
trines. Of course, by far the ntost
important of these is tariff reform.
On this issue, I in satisfied that the
Democracy is face to face with a
great opportunity. All of the signs
of the times point to a recognition,
far beyond all party lines, of the
benefits which would accrue to the
people by a readjustment of the
tariff, and it would be worse than
folly for the party under the stress
of any temptation or yielding to any
allurement to permit this to be
subordinated to or overshadowed by
any other issue.
"The present restlessness in ite.
publican circles on this subject, often
amounting to protests against Re
publican protective theories, should
warn the Democracy of an impend
ing danger. I mean by this the
possibility that our opponents may
crowd us from our position on this
sutsject., if we allow them to do so by
our lukewarmness and indiffet ence
and to occupy our ground, just as
we permitted them to crowd us from
the ground that belonged to us on
the question of sound money.
"1 am very mich' pleased with the
deliverance of the New York Democ.
racy on the tariff issue, and it wasm
fit and proper that the Empire Stat,
should souid the right. note. It is
my clear conviction that the best
assurance of success for the Democ
racy in the next nationd caupaign
will be found in a sincere and unre
mitting insistence upon its old time
doatrine of a fair and beneficent
tariff adjustment. This insistence
should be from now on. It need
hardly be said that success will de
pond upon the presentation of tariff
doctrine not only recognized as truly
Democratic by those who may be
termed veterans in the party, buit
also commending itself to the hosts
of the younger men of our land.
Thousands of these await the oppor
tunity to espouse a cause which must
appeal to disinterested love of coun
try and which is based upon thought
ful,regard of all our people and the
safety of the institutions under which
we live. To these young men no
hope is offered for the realization of
their patriotic aspirations except
through the conscientious endeavors
of the Democratic party.
"I am at a loss to understand by
what process of reasoning the notion
has gained a footing in certain Demo.
cratic quarters not only that no im
portance attaches to a Democratic
ascendency in the next house of
representatives, but even that it
might be advantageons to party
prospects in 1904'for it to continue
in its present minority now. Power
ful warfare ought to be5 regarded as
continuous, and if the results battled
for are worth having at all, they are
worthy of our best efforts at all
times and under all circumstances.
Constant vigilance and unrelenting
attack are essential to victory, armies
are captured by first driving in the
outposts.
"I cannot believe that the bright
prospects of the D)emocracy in the
present campaign are to be merred
by any lack of hard work and strenu
ons fighting.''
The extensive sale of flne liv,.
stock at auction dur~g Fair week
will give all an opportnl)ity to im