The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-02
PRESIDENTS PLAN ID SETTLE STRIKE. Invites Operators and Pres. Mitchell to Meet Him. in Washington To-
 morrow.
TO APPEAL TO BOTH SIDES
HAS NO POWER TO FORCE fl
 SETTLEMENT.

Miners and Operators Will be Asked Not to Allow False Pride or Obstinacy to Prevent TermiNatton of Trouble win be Urged tn the Interests of Hu- manity to Open the Mtnes-A Tempo- rary Arrangement Hoped For al Least No Political Purpose in the Effort to Settle the Trouble.
 Washington, Oct. 1--President Roose- welt will make an effort to bring the anthracite coal mine owners and their striking employees together in the inter- est of the public good. This conclusion was reached after series of confer ences with his cabinet advisors cover ing yesterday and to-day. The decision was arrived at when the lawyers of the cabinet informed the president that there was no way under the constitu- ton and the form of government of the United States, for federal intervention to end the strike. Every phase of the situation was canvassed and the de- termina tion to have the mine operators and President Mitchell meet the presi- dent was reached when it 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 Gen. eral Knox and Postmaster General Payne, at the temporary white house the following telegrams to the operators and President Mitchell were made pub lie:
 White House.
 4t Washington October 1. 1902. George F, Baer, President Reading Rail- way system, Philadelphia; W. H. Trues- dale, President Delaware. LackaWanae NG 1e Exchange Place. New. York. N. Y: p. B. Thomas. Chairman of the Board, Erie sRailroad Company, No; r, 21 c9rtlandt 2, Tn!1. Ter, President New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company. No. 56 Beaver Street, New York, N. Y. R. NJ. Olyphant, esident Delaware and Hudson Company New York; John Markle. No. 52T West Thirty-fourth Street. New York, N. T.:
 I should greatly like to see you on Friday next October B. at eleven o'clock A. M., here in Washington, in regard to the failu e of the coal supply, which has become a matter of vital concern to the whole nation. I have sent similar dispatch to MT. John Mitchell, President of the United Mine Workers of America.
 Theodore Roosevelt John Mitchell, President United Mine Workers of America, Wilkes-Ba re, Pa.
 should greatly like to see you on Fri day next October 3, at eleven o'clock 4. M., here in Washington, in regard to the failure of the coal supply, which has be- come matter of vital concern to the whole nation. I have sent a similar dis patch to the President of the anthracite coal companies Theodore Roosevelt.
 At the meeting Friday the line of approach toward the settlement of the 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 people. It is stated by one os the president S advisers that beyond this the president cannot go; he has no powers of com- pulsion to bring into play against eith- CT side and he must rely upon his per- suasive abilities and his appeals to their sense of humanity if anything tangible is to be accomplished.
 The president intends to lay before his hearers the situation as it appears to him with all the prospective horrors that will follow fuel famine, and will urge them in the interests of humanity to open the mines and supply the de- mand for coal. The president has talk en this action because he feels it to be his duty to do so, as the executive head of nation, threatened with great peril The president has, in a sense taken up- no himself the burdens of an arbitrator in this great dispute between capital and labor, and though the arbitration is not compulsory and is not even known under the name of arbitration in any of the invitations issued to-day, 1t is the hope of the president and his advisers t!.at it will be effective. Just now no one can say though there is the suggestion of temporary arrange ment which will tide over the cold weather.
 It is stated by a member of the cab- inet that there is no political purpose in this effort but that the president is moved to exert his influence solely in the interests of the people.
 In the other attempt, it is said, the operators felt that politics was the most prominent motive. In this con- nection the story is revived of the set clement of the strike in 1900. The ope- rators claim that when that strike was settled under stress of political exi- gency, the way was paved for the pres ent strike They also claim that the