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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 51, 18 December 1902, Page 31

The triumph of Cardinal Manning over the Dock Strike has always (says the 'Tablet') lingered in the memory of London, and now from America we get the news of the nomination of the Right Rev. John L. Spalding. Bishop of Peoria, 111., among the arbitrators annointed to settle the relations between masters and men in the great Coal Strike. There are six arbitrators in all ; there is a mining engineer ; there is a judge ; there is a general ; there is a great coal middleman ; there is a sociologist, who is also Grand Chief of the Order of Railway Conductors ; and there is one ecclesiastic, and that one a Catholic, in the person of the eminent and eloquent prelate already named. To President Roosevelt himself is attributed the nomination of the Bishop ; and we can say with a certainty of confidence that the whole country will ratify the President's choice. No such important court of labor arbitration has been held in the United States ; and it will be gra-~ tifying to Catholics all over the world to note that in a State which contemplates all religions, and embodies and establishes none, it is to a prelate of the Catholic Church that the President, himself a Protestant, turns for support and counsel at a supreme moment of national history, when capital and labor are at deadliest grip.