The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-04
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AT the Morning Session the Presi.
dent States His Desires.
Makes Carefully Prepared Statement in
Which He Appeals to the Patriot.
ism of All Concerned.
RECESS TO FORMULATE VIEWS
Each of the C0nferees Draws Up
His Own Statement.
These are Presented to the President at
the Later Meeting and Gone Over
Carefully, but to No Purpose.
NO CHANGE in THE STATUS
Both Sides Say the Strike Will
Be Continued.
NO CHANGE in THE STATUS
Both Sides Say the Strike Will
Be Continued.
The Presidents Appeal That Violence Be
Prevented -Conferees Remain in
Washington Over Night.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3-The coal confer
ence between the President and representa-
tives of the operators and miners came TO
an end at the temporary White House this
afternoon with a failure to reach an agree
ment. Apparently the rock on which the
conference split was recognition OF the
miners union.
The President had urged the contending
parties to cease strife in the interests of
the public welfare. The miners, through
the president OF their union, had expressed
a willingness to submit differences to arbi-
tration of a tribunal to be named by the
President and to enter into an agreement
tc abide by terms fixed by the arbitrators
for period of one to five years. The en-
ployers, through the presidents of the rail-
road and coal companies and a leading In
dependent mine operator, had squarely re-
fused arbitration, had denounced the min
ers labor organization as lawless and
anarchistic body with which they could and
would have no dealings; had demanded fed
eral troops to insure complete protection to
workers and their families in the mining
region, and court proceedings against the
miners union. and had offered. IL the men
returned to work, to submit grievances at
individual collieries to the decision Of the
judges of the Court of Common Pleas for
the district Of Pennsylvania in which the
colliery was located.
There the matter closed. Tonight both
the miners and the operators are still in
the city, but they will return to their sew
eral localities, each saying, at late hour,
that the struggle will continue.
1t was a remarkable chapter In the eco
nomic history OF the country that was writ
ten to-day. For the first time the President
of the Republic had intervened directly be-
tween the great forces of capital and labor
In an effort 10 avert what he himself re-
garded as a great national calamity. The
result was to bring the principals in the
great controversy face to face with the
whole country eagerly intent and watchful
of their doings. Technically the issues
between the two great forces stand as they
did before the President summoned the
representatives OF the contending forces TO
the national capital, and. forgetting his own
acute suffering, besought them for the love
of the great country wherein they dwelt
and out of pity for the countless throng of
suffering poor. to adjust their differences
and work together in peace for the common
veal.
EXTREME VIEWS.
the great Industrial struggle were so ex-
treme and wide apart that there was no
middle ground possible. and so the con-
ference came TO an end without any agree
ment for it's continuation.
The conference lasted six hours. includ-
ing a recess OF three hours between the
morning and afternoon sessions. taken to
enable the miners and operators to pre-
fha
appeal.
The immediate parties to the strike say
they will continue as heretofore. What
course the administration viii take next
no enc is prepared to say. One of the
operators. as he left the White House with
closely-set jaws. was asked regarding this.
and replied:
If anyone knows what the President viii
do next. that is more than 1 know"
Fourteen men. including the President.
were in the second story front room at
the temporary White House during the
momentous conference. President Mitchell
and three of his district leaders represented
the miners and five railroad men and one
independent mine operator the employers
With the President were Attorney Gen.
eral Knox Commissioners OF Labor Wright
and Secretary Cortelyou. All the Cabinet
save the attorney general kept aloof dur
ing the conference, but between the two
meetings and afterward several of the
Presidents advisers called on him TO talk
over the situation. What took place at
the meeting is set out in ample statements
made by each side and given out to the
press by themselves and also officially at
the White House.
During the conference the President
listened 10 both sides with the greatest
eagerness- Immediately after it's adjourn
nent. hts physicians. Surgeon General
Rixey and DIR. Long, insisted on making
an examination of his wound and dressing
k. Apparently no al effects had resulted