Coal strike at Shenandoah, Pa., 1902. A strikers' picket.

Copyright, 1902, by George Grantham Bain.

The coal strike arbitrators chosen by the President. Carroll D. Wright,

Recorder; T. H. Watkins, General J. M. Wilson, Judge Gray, Presiding

Officer; E, W. Parker, E. E. Clark. and Bishop Spalding.

The problem of protecting the public pressed for solution as never

before. The only suggestion at first discussed was arbitration. Enforced

arbitration could not be effected in the absence of contract without