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EFFORT TO COMPROMISE THE STRIKE IS NOT SUCCESSFUL
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President's Conference En ;, Leaving Hatters, Where It Found Them flitchell Offers to Order a Resumption If the Points at
Issue Are Referred for bitration to a Commission to Be Appointed by the President and If the Operators Will Agree to
Embody the Award s This Commission in a Term Contract with the Union The Operators Flatly Refuse to
Recognize Hitchell or the Union in Any Way, but Will Submit to Arbitration by Pennsylvania Common
" Pleas Judges Any Grievance of Any fliner Which Cannot Be Settled in Direct Conference at nine.
Washington, Oct. 3. The great conference between the president and representatives of the operators and miners came to an end at the temporary
white house, facing Lafayette square, at 4.55 o'clock this afternoon, with a failure to reach an agreement. Apparently the rock upon which the conference
split was recognition of the miners' union. The president had urged the contending parties to cease strife, in interest of the public welfare; the miners,
through the president of their union, had expressed a willingness to submit differences to arbitration of a tribunal to be named by the president, and to enter
into an agreement to abide by terms fixed by the arbitration for a period of from one to five years, and the employers, through the presidents of the railroad
and coal companies and leading independent operator, had squarely refused arbitration and denounced the miners' labor organization as a lawless and anar
chistic body, with which they could and would have no dealings; had demanded federal troops to insure complete protection to workers and their families, in
the mining region and court proceedings against the miners' union, and had offered, if the men returned to work, to submit grievances at individual collieries
to the different judges of the courts of common pleas for the district of Pennsylvania in which the colliery was located. There the matter closed. Tonight
the miners and operators are still in the city, but tomorrow they return to their several localities, each saying at a late hour that the struggle will continue.
The immediate parties to the strike say they will continue as heretofore. What course the administration will take next, no one is prepared to say,
One of the operators, as he left the white house with closely set jaw, was asked regarding this, and replied: "If any one knows what the president will do
next, that is more than I know."
' It was announced at the white house tonight that the president had no comment to make on today's conference.
what was done AT
THE MORNING SESSION
Washington, Oft. X At 11.10 o'clock,
ten mlnV"q after the hour llxod for
the. conference, every person who had
boon Invited to participate, with the
exception of President Olyphunt, of
the Delnwnre and Hudson, afld Presi
dent Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania
company, was present at the executive
residence. Mr. Olyphant sent as Ills
personal representative, David Wilcox,
vice president and general counsel of
the road. The conference was held In
the second-story front room, where
the president since his return from In
dianapolis has transacted necessary
public business.
The president during the conference
was seated In a law invalid chair, hH
left leg extended at full length, rest
ing upon a cushion. The president
greeted most cordially each of his
guest;? as they appeared, and when all
were assembled he stated in a brief
preliminary his object In railing? (hem
together. The president, fully realiz
ing the importance of the communica
tion that ho was to maUe. had pre
pared a carefully worded paper, sot
ting forth in detail his position on the
pending controversy. The president
Enid;
"I wish to call your attention to
the fact that there tire three parties
riffcctetl by the situation in the nn
thrncite trade. The operators, the
miners and the general public. I
spcik for neither the operators nor
the miners, but for the general pub
lic, Ths questions at issue which
led to the situation affect immediate
ly the parties concerned the opera
tors pnd the mlncis but the situa
tion itself vitally affects the public.
"As long as there seemed to be a
reasonable hope that those matters
could be adjusted between the par
t'cs it did not seem proper to me to
intervene in any way, I disclaim
any right or duty to intervene in
this wny upon legal grounds or upon
nny official relation that I bear to
the situation, but the urgency and
the terrible nature of the catastrophe
impending over n large portion of
our people in the shape of a winter
fuel famine impel me, after much
anxious thought, to believe that my
duty requires mo to use. whatever
influence I personally can to bring
to nn end a situation which had be
come literally intolerable.
"I wish to emphasizo the character
of the situation, and to soy that its
gravity is sunh that I am con
strained urgently to insist that each
one of you realise the heavy bur
den of responsibility upon him. We
nro upon the threshold of winter,
with nn alrendy existing coal fam
ine, the future terrors of which wo
cn hardly yet appreciate, The evil
possibilities nro so far-renohlng, so
appalling, thnt it seems to me that
you are not only justified in sinking,
but required to sink, for the time
being any tenacity ns to your re
spective claims in the matter at is
sue between you,
"In my judgment, tho situation
Imperatively requires that you meet
upon tho common plane of the ne
cessities of the public. With nil tho
earnestness there is In me I ask
that there be nn immediate resump
tion of operations in the coal mines
in some such wny as will, without n
day's unnecessary delay, meet the
crying needs of tho people.
"I do not invite a discussion of
your respective claims and positions.
I nppenl to your patriotism, to the
spirit thnt sinks personal considera
tions nnd makes individual sacrifices
for tho general good."
When the president concluded tl.-i
rending pf iil statement he snld ho did
nqt expect that cltheipurty would bo
reudy to submit propositions at this
time, but he asked tljein to take into
consideration what lie had. said, and to
return at II o'clock. He said"- he honed
that some proposition might be pi-e-scntcid
at that time, which would fur
nish tho basis of an adjustment, The
conference then terminated. It had
lasted less than fifteen minutes.
Washington, Oct. S. The statements
to the president were made In the fol
lowing order: President Haer, of the
Rending railroad: President Mitchell,
of the .Mine Workers: President
Thomas, of the Krie railroad; Mr.
Mnrkle, an Independent operator;
President Trucsdale, of tile Lackawan
na railroad; Mr. Wilcox, vice presi
dent and general counsel of tho Dela
ware and Hudson railroad, and Mr.
Fowler, of the Xew York, Ontario nnd
Western railroad.
The following Is the text of the sev
eral statements:
GEORGE F. BAER,
President of the Beading Hail
road. "To the President of the United .States.
"We understand your anxiety as for
cibly expressed In the statement you
read to its this morning to bring about
an Immediate resumption of operations
in the coal mines In some such way
as will without u day's unnecessary
delay meet the crying needs of the
people.' We Infer that you desired
us to consider the offer or Mr. Mitch
ell, verbally made this morning, ex
pressing and speaking for the Pnlted
Mine Workers, to go back to work, If
yon would appoint a commission to
determine the questions at Issue.
"You distinctly say that you 'do not
Invite a discussion of your respective
claims and positions.' But wo assume
that a .statement of what Is going on
In the coal regions will not be Irrele
vant. We represent the owners of coal
mines in Pennsylvania. There are from
l.'.OOO to 20,000 men at work mining and
preparing coal, They are abused, as
saulted, Injured and maltreated by the
United Mine Workers. They can only
work under the protection of armed
guards, Thousands of other workmen
uic deterred from working by tho in
timidations, violence and crimes, In
augurated by the Hnlted Mine Work
ers, over whom John Mitchell, whom
you Invited to meet you, is chief,
"J need not picture tho dally crimes
committed by the members of this or
ganisation. The domestic tranquility
which every constitution declares Is the.
chief oblect of government does pot ex
Rt In the coal regions. There Is n ter
rible reign of lawlessness and crime
there, only the lives and property of tho
members of the secret oath-bound or
der which declared that the locals
should 'have full power to suspend
operations at collieries' until tho non
union men join their orders', nro safe,
Hvery effort Is made. to pruvent the
mining of coal, and when mined, Mit
chell's inep dynamite bridges and
tracks, mob trainmen, and by all man
ner of violence try to prevent Its ship
meat to relievo the public,
"The constitution of Pennsylvania
guarant'-eM protection to life and prop
erty, in oxpiess terms It declares tho
right of acquiring, possessing and de
fending property 'to be Inullenable.'
When riot and anarchy too great to be
appeased by tho civil power occur, the
governor gf Pennsylvania is bound to
call out the state troops to suppress it.
fie must fearlessly use the whole power
of the state to protect life and property
end to establish peace, not an armed
truce, but the peace of the law which
protects every man at work and going
to and from work, lie has sent troops
'.o t ho coal regions. Gradually, tho
power of the law Is asserting itself'.
L'nlcss encouraged by false hopes, or
der will soon be restored, and then we
en n mine coal to meet the public wants.
If the power of Pennsylvania Is insulTI
clont to re-establish the reign of law,
the' constitution of the I'nlted States
requires the president, when requested
by the legislature and the governor,
"to suppress domestic violence." You
see, there Is a lawful way to secure coal
for the public.
"The duty of the hour Is not to waste
time negotiating with tho fomenters of
this anarchy, and insolent defiance of
1'iV, but to do as was done in the war
of the Rebellion, restore the majesty
of law, the only guardian of a free peo
ple, and to re-establish order and peace
at any cost,
"The government Is a contemptible
failure if It can only protect the lives
and property, and secure the comfort
of the people by compromising with
the violators of law and the Instlgatois
of violence and crime.
".lust now it is more Important to
teach Ignorant men, dwelling among us,
misled and used as tools by citizens of
other siate, that at whatever cost and
inconvenience to the public, Penn
sylvania will use the whole power of
government to protect, not only the
men who wants to work, but his wife
and children while he Is at work, nnd
to punish every man who by Instiga
tion or by the overt acts attempts to
dtpiive any man of his liberty to work.
"1'nder these conditions, we decline
to accept Mr. Mitchell's considerate
offer to lot our men work on terms he
names. He has no right to come from
Illinois to dictate terms on the accept
ance of which anarchy and crime shall
cease In Pennsylvania. He must stop
his people from killing, maiming and
abusing Pennsylvania citizens and from
destroying propert. lie must stop It
because It Is unlawful, and not because
of any bargain with us.
"We will add to our offer, 'to con
tinue the wages existing at the time of
strike and to take up at each colliery
and adjust any grievnnre' the further
condition, 'if the employers nnd em
ployes at any particular colliery cannot
reach a satisfactory adjustment of any
alleged grievance, It shall be referred
to tho judges of tho court of common
pleas of the district In which the col
liery Is situated for final determination,'
"(.Signed) fleorge l Haer,
"President Philadelphia and Reading
t'oal and Iron company, and Lehigh
and Wllkes-Rarro Coal and Iron com
pany, and Temple iron company."
PRESIDENT MITCHELL,
United Mine Workers of America
Tho following Is the text of the state
ment made to the president this after
noon, by the olflclal representatives of
the miners' union:
"Washington, D. t, Oct. , 1002.
"Mr, President; At tho conference
this morning, wo, tho accredited repre
sentatives of the anthracite coal mine
workers, were much Impressed with tho
views you expressed and the' dangers to
the welfare of our country from it pro
longation of the coal strike that you so
clearly pointed out. Conscious pf tho
responsibility resting upon us, conscious
of our duty' to society, cone-clous of our
obligation to the one hundred and fifty
thousand mine workers whom wo linvo
the honor to represent, we have, after
most careful consideration, and with
tho hope of relieving the situation and
averting the sufferings nnd hardship
which would Inevitably follow in tho
wnko of a coal famine, decided to pro
pose it resumption of coal mining upon
the lines hereinafter suggested.
"Ueforo doing so, Mr, President, wo
desire to say that we aro not prompted
to suggest this courso because of uny
doubts of the justice of our claims. In
deferring to your wishes we are prompt
ed by no fear on our part of our abil
ity to continue tho contest to n suc
cessful issue, thanks to the generous
assistance rendered us by our fellow
workers In tills and other lands; thanks
to a justice-loving American public,
whose sympathies are always on the
side of tight, we are able to continue
the struggle Indefinitely. But. confident
of our ability to' demonstrate to any
impartial tribunal the equity of our de
mands for higher wages nnd improved
environment, we propose that the Issues
culniinuting in this strike shall be re
ferred to you and a tribunal of your
own selection, and agree to accept your
award upon all or any of the questions
Involved.
"If you will accept this responsibility
and the representatives of the coal
operators will signify their willingness
to have your decision incorporated in
an agreement, for not less than one
year or more than five years, as may
be mutually determined, between them
selves and the anthracite coal mine
workers, and will pay the scale of
wages which you and the tribunal ap
pointed by you, shall award, we will Im
mediately call a convention and recom
mend a resumption of work, upon the
understanding that tho wages which
shall be paid, are to go in effect from
the day upon which work Is resumed.
"Very respectfully yours,
"John Mitchell,
"President United Mine Workers of
America.
"John Fahy,
"Thomas Duffy,
"T. D, Nloholls.
"District Presidents United Mine AVork
ers of America."
E. B, THOMAS,
President of the Erie Railway.
"No one can more fully realize the
gravity of the situation or the grave
responsibilities resting upon them
than the men who for months have
boon seeking to protect the property
under their charge as well as the lives
of loyal employes from the attacks of
misguided men incited by people foreign
to the state and to the Industry we nro
seeking to defend, Wo nro doing nil
In our power and with Increasing suc
cess to mine coal. Mr. Mitchell and
his lieutenants aro doing nil In their
power to prevent us. Wo ask that
such efforts cease, or, falling, that the
state of Pennsylvania, and If she is
unable, the powers of the United .States
shall bo exerted to afford full protec
tion to employes not only while at
work, but to and from their homes, as
well as to their families, and that tho
reign of terror, riots. Intimidation and
murder which for months has prevailed
In the anthracite region shall cease, A
record of twenty killed, over 40 Injured
and with constant and Increasing de
struction of dwellings, works, machin
ery and railway by mob violence, with
mi proper enforcement of tho luw or
order by the proper officials, Is not the
time to act on Mr. Mitchell's sugges
tion of submission to arbitrate with
men not In our employ, There aro
over 17,000 loyal employes at work In
and nround the nnthrncite mines nnd
slnco this conference bus been called
open threats are current In that region
thnt such men will neither be permitted
to work or live In that country. We
nro contending for the right of the Am
erican citizen to work without regard
to creed, nationnllty or association. To
seek to prevent this Is a crime nnd wo
cannot by Implication sanction such a
course. We ask tho enforcement of
luw and order In the state, that wo be
permitted .t deal with our employes
free from foreign Interference, con
vinced thnt under such conditions wo
win. fully perform our full duty to tho
public, our owners nnd to our employes,
I fully concur In the suggestion of air,
Haer, which can be pursued In case of
failure to agrco with our employes, hut
in ninny years of such dealing it has
never yet been requisite to call In as
sistance to fairly and satisfactorily deal
with our ovn men."
DAVID WILCOX,
Vice-president and Gencrnl Coun
sel of the Delaware nnd Hudson
Railway Company.
The statement of David Wilcox, vice
president and general counsel of the
Delaware and Hudson Railway com
pany, was of considerable length. It
told of the mine workers' organization.
Its growth throughout the country, its
methods, etc. He said the United Mine
Workers of America, composed of a
large number of miners and mine labor
ers, is divided into districts and local
unions and seeks to compel every one
engaged In the industry throughout the
country to join the organization, which
is managed by an executive committee
at Indianapolis. R thus consists of one
central organization, which restrains
and controls tho production of fuel
everywhere throughout the country and
monopolizes the labor engaged therein.
It is, therefore, the most extensive com
bination and monopoly which tho coun
try has ever known. It habitually en
forces its orders and directions by
whatever means may bo most effectual,
including strikes, boycotts, picketing,
besetting and the like, not confined to
Its own members alone, but In which
nre- compelled to join as far as possible
all other persons similarly employed.
Mr. Wilcox cited from legal records
three Instances where the United States
Circuit court has condemned tho vio
lent .methods of the miners' organiza
tion. Continuing, ha said, slnco the strike
was ordered Inst May, all persons will
ing to work have been forced to cease
nnd that within a few days one or more
miners who had returned to work,
having been formerly connected with
the mine workers' association, have
been murdered.
These facts show that the mine
workers' association Is not within the
rules regarding ordinary local labor
organizations, On the contrary, the
association and all of Its members con
stitute n combination or conspiracy not
only at common law, hut also In re
straint of trade and commerce nniong
the several states and also an attempt
to monopolize tho labor necessary In
supplying coal found In one state to
tho markets of other states, nnd thus
to monopolize this part of the com
merce among the several states. The
courts, he said, linvo already many
times hold that such a combination Is
unlawful within tho act of congress of
July 2, 1S90, passed for tho purpose of
preventing restraints of inter-state
commerce and known as tho Sherman
act nnd In addition, tho circuit court
of the United .States for the western
district of Virginia, upon March 23
last, held thnt this Identical Unitd
Mine Workers' association was Illegal.
Continuing, Mr. Wilcox said tho an
thracite coal companies are making
every effort to inlno coal as rapidly as
possible. They aie obstructed by the
failure of the state authorities to fully
protect those who desire to work for
them and by tho failure of the National
guard to enforce the statute under
which the mine workers' organization
has already been held to be illegal, As
soon ns action of that sort Is effective
ly taken, there can bo no doubt that
tho supply of roul will bo ample. The
question at present Is merely whether
an unlawful association shall be per
mitted in this country by means which
aro Illegal to ilcchlu who shall bo al
lowed to work, what shall bo his hours
of work and what ho shall bo paid,
This Is conn-ary to tho spirit unci the
letter of our laws. If they nro enforced
such at effort will reuse at once. While
the United Mlno Workers have been
endeavoring over since the strike be
gan to prevent the production of coal,
the operators iave been actively en
deavoring to Increase tho same, nnd
now are actually producing about IS
per cent, of the normal output. This
company respectively and earnestly
urges upon tho president the use of
his lawful powers in the. promises,
which was made In the Dobs case of
ono of ills predecessors, and which wus
sustained by all the courts. If the na
tional government would now enforce
the law with equal promptness, Xhe
strike would end next week.
The representative of the United
Mine Workers makes a condition of re
turning to work, thut a commission be
appointed by the president to investi
gate existing conditions nnd that the
mine workers and tho operators agree
to abide by its recommendation. The
personnel or such a commission is un
certain; its action would be without
authority of law or precedent, and it
would be without knowledge of the
varying conditions in the different col
lieries and regions. This company has
no power to commit the welfare and
existence of the property to such un
certainties. Moreover, as already point
ed out, tlie mine workers is nn illegal
body and has no lawful control over
Its members.
In concluding Mr. Wilcox said; "In
order, however, that this company may
be under no charge of unwillingness to
endeavor hi good faith to remedy any
grievances which may exist upon the
pari of Its employes at Its several col
lieries, It is willing that the same shall
be ultimately passed upon by tho
judges of tho court of 'common pleas
of tho state of Pennsylvania for tho
district of which such collieries are sit
uated. These are the local officers of
the law having knowledge of the facts.
It is willing, therefore, in case of a re
sumption of work to add to its notice
already posted, a provision to that ef
fect." THOMAS R. FOWLER,
President of the New York, On
tario nnd Western Railway Com
pany. "To the President:
"I beg leave to state thnt t fully
concur in the statements submitted lit
this time by the other gentlemen whom
you have Invited to be present at to
day's conference. I, however, ask
leave to present my views more fully
at a later day and hope to have In
your hands early next week a state
ment presenting in some detail tho ser
ious situation and conditions prevail
ing throughout the anthracite coal
regions at tho present time,"
JOHN MARKLE,
Coal Operator.
John Murklo, In opening his state
ment, said he thoroughly appreciate d
tho seriousness of the situation In tho
anthracite field, and agreed wllh tho
president's expression that the "situ
ation has become literally Intolerable."
"With nil the earnestness In ine," he
continued, "1 ask that there ho an Im
mediate resumption of operations In the
coal mines In some such way us will,
without n day's unnecessary delay,
meet tho crying needs of the public.
"I fully endorse these remarks from
you and us at American citizen and a
citizen of the commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, I now ask you to perforin iho
duties vested In you as the president of
these United States; to at once squelch
tho anarchistic condition of affairs ex
isting lu the anthracito coal regions by
tho strong arm of tho military at your
command, A icconl of twenty-one. mur
ders, a long list of brutal assaults,
houses and bridges dynamited, daily
acts of violence now taking place, ami
several waslierles burned down, aro
actual evidences of this condition of
lawlessness existing there. Are yon
asking us to ileal with a set of outlaws?
1 can hardly conceive of such a thought.
Tho rcspectublo citizens of these United
States will Insist upon the iilliecrs In
lower giving to the citizens of Penn
sylvania law and order, nnd tho right
tu work It they so desire.
"Mr, Mitchell's organization Is a
small minority of the total number of
workers In the anthracito coal Held
mid he Is holding a large majority by
Intimidation, coercion and attempts at
bodily harm. If you desire anthracite
coal to be placed lu the market quickly,
t.'iko the necessary steps at once 'and
put the federal troops In the field, nnd
give to those desiring to work proper
protection."
In concluding Mr. Markle said:
"Mr. President, a ' condition exists,
not a theory, in the anthracite coal
Holds, between a set of professional
agitators and their co-workers b; tho
one side, anarchistic in their acts, 'nnd
the operators and n majority of the
worklngmen on the other, who are en
dravorhig to relieve the seriousness of
the anthracite coal situation, You, Mr.
President, I believe, can relieve the
situation at once. Will you do It?"
U. H. TRUESDALE,
President of the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western Railroad
Company.
Statement In part of Mr. W. H. Trues
dale. president of the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western Railroad company:
"Mr. President, representing the In
terests of tho Delaware, . Lackawanna
and Western Railroad company, its
hoard of managers and Its stockholders,
permit me to say that realizing fully
the gravity of the situation ns stated
by you and appreciating the burden of
responsibility which this situation Im
poses upon us, we feel It Is flrst and
foremost our duty and press It upon
your consideration and, through you,
upon that of the authorities of the state
of Pennsylvania, thnt the existing con
ditions of anarchy and lawlessness, of
riot and rapine, a condition which has
been raging wllh more or less violence
throughout the anthracito regions dur
ing the past five months, be Immedi
ately and permanently suppressed. That
to tills end we ask that the entire au
thority and power of the state of Penn
sylvania, civil and military and If need
be that of the United States govern
ment as well, be exercised forthwith.
"We further ask that tho civil brunch
of the United States government, taking
cognizance of and following the decis
ions of Its courts rendered in litigation
growing out of previous similar condi
tions, at. once institute proceedings
against the lllegnl organization known
as the United Mine Workers' associa
tion, Its well-known oHlcers, agents unit
men, to enjoin them nnd restrain i
permanently from continuing tills oj
ganlzallon nnd requiring them to.
slst Immediately from conspiring.
nlvlng. aiding, or abetting the outlij
ami Intolerable conditions lu the
thraclte region for which they, nnrti
alone, are responsible. We nre ndvi
by our counsel thnt such civil nctloU
will lie on the part of the United States
government, as It In well known that
United States statutes are dally being
openly and grossly violated, thut prevl
lous decisions of the courts justify fully
such action being taken nt this time.
"Then, Mr. President, there Is ;i great,
n pressing duty imposed upon us at this
tiino to tho thousands of true loynl citi
zens of Pennsylvania who have been
lawfully pursuing their various voca
tions or professions under great diffi
culties and who, with great sacrifice,
have been abused, vlllllled, boycotted
and In many cases almost ruined be
cause they had the manhood to raise
Continued on Pago 3.J
YESTERDAY'S WEATHEK,'; '
Local data for October 3, 1002,
Highest tciiiporaturn .,,, GT, degrees
Lowest lemperaturo 43 degrees
Relative humidity;
X a. ni. ..., ,. S7 per cent,
S p. 111 6S per cent.
Precipitation, 21 hours ended. S p, m,,
none. J
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Washington, Oct. 3. Uorecnst for
Saturday and Sunday; ICistcrn
Pennsylvania Increasing cloudi
ness Saturday, followed by rain;
Sunday rain; fresh north to cast
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