The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-02
MITCHELL AND MAGNATEs.
They Will Have a Heart to Heart
 Talk With Roosevelt.

Washington, Oct. 1.-President Roose- | welt will make an effort to bring the an- | thracite coal mine owners and their strik- ing employees together in the interest of the public good.
 l This conclusion was reached after a | series of conferences with his cabinet advisers covering yesterday and today. The decision was arrived at when the lawyers of the cabinet informed the Pres ident that there was no way under the constitution and the form of government of the United States for Federal interVen- tion to end the strike.
 Every phase of the situation was can- vassed and the determination to have the mine operators and President Mitchell meet the President was reached when 1t was found that no other method was open.
 At the conclusion of the conference to- day which was attended by Secretaries Root, Shaw and Moody, Attorney-General Knox and Postmaster General Payne at the temporary White House a statement consisting of the following telegrams was made public:
 White House,
 Washington, Oct. l, 1902
 George F. Baer, President Reading Railway System, Philadelphia, Pa.
 wv. H. Truesdale. President Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Com pany, No. 26 Exchange Place, New York.
 "E. B. Thomas. Chairman of the Board, Erie Railroad Company H Cortlandt Street. New York.
 Thomas P. Fowler, President New York, Ontario and Western Railroad Company. 66 Beaver Street. New York.
 "R M. Oliphant. President Delaware and Hudson, New York
 John Markle, 527 West Thirty-fourth Street, New York:
 'I should greatly like to see you on Friday next. October 3, at Il o'clock a. m., here in Washington in regard to the failure of the coal supply, which has be- come a matter of vital concern to the whole nation.
 'I have sent a similar di9atch to MT. John Mitchell, President of the United Mine Workers of America.
 'Theodore Roosevelt" John Mitchell, President of the United
 Mine Workers of America, Wilkes |
 barre, Pa:
 T should greatly like to see you on Friday next October 3. at II a. m., here in Washington, in regard to the failure of the coal supply, which has become a matter of vital concern to the whole na- tion.
 'I have sent similar disatch to the Presidents of the anthracite coal com panies. Theodore Roosevelt"
 At the meeting Friday the line of ap- | proach toward the settlement of the | strike will be appeal by President Roosevelt to both sides to come together | as men and not to allow false pride or feeling of obstinaCy to stand In the way | of the termination of the great strike which is fraught with such threat of misery to thousands of persons. It is stated by one of the Presidents advisers that beyond this the President cannot go; he has no powers of Compulsion to bring into play against either side and he must rely upon persuasive abilities of his appeals to their sense of humanity if anything tangible is to be accomplish ed.
 The President intends to lay before his hearers the situation as it appears to nm with all the prospective horrors that will follow a fuel famine and will urge them in the interests of humanity to open the mines and supply the demand The President has taken this action because he feels it his duty to do SO as the eXecu- tive head of d nation threatened with great peril.
 The President has in a sense taken upon himself the burdens of an arbitrator In this great dispute between capital and labor and though the arbitration is not and is not even known under the name of arbitration in any of the in- vitations issued today it is the hope of the President and his advisers that 1t will be effective. Just how no one can say though there Is the suggestion of a tenn porary arrangement which will tide ever the cold weather.
 It Is said by member of the cabinet that there is no political purpose in this effort, but that the President is moved to exert his influence solely in the interest of the people. In other attempts. 1t Is said, the operators felt that politics was .