Evening star., 1902-08-25
HANNA LOSES HOPE
SENATOR SEES aS way TO END
STRIKE ID
Thinks the struggls VEIL Be Long
Drawn Out and Public viii
Suffer. 'a-

A dispatch from Buffalo, N! Y, yesterday
says: Senator Marcus A. Hanna arrived
In Buffalo today from Niagara Falls. He
was accompanied by his daughter, Miss
Ruth Hanna, and her friend, Miss Phelps
of Cleveland. They were on their way
home to Cleveland from Niagara Falls.
After a drive around the city they returned
to Cleveland tonight on the boat
For the first time Senator Hanna stated
the abandonment finally of all efforts on
his part to end the coal strike. He said 1t
sorrowfully, for he believes the operators
should meet the miners In arbitration.
ST have exhausted my efforts" said Sem
ator Hanna. ~ have done all in my power,
and can do no more. / will make no fur
ther attempt, for 1t would be useless"
He said there was no chance of arbitra-
ton so long as only one Side-the miners
were willing to arbtrate. He gave 1t as
his opinion that the miners will not give in
so long as they are able to fight
'It will not be short fight said he. "It
will be prolonged, and such prolongation
will mean not only hardships for the miners
and the women and children dependent on
them. but it will have its effect on the
American people The longer this struggle
continues the greater will be the increase In
the price of COAL"
He said he considered the refusal of the
operators to arbitrate as final. 'T talked
with Mr.. Morgan before he went to Eu-
rope" continued the senator. land before
the strike was fully under way. He de-
plored the situation, but would take no
active part toward settlement. His atti-
tude in my opinion, is unchanged"
1t was evident in every sentence of Sem
ator Hanna's talk that his sympathies are
with the miners, that he has given up hope
of a peaceful settlement and views with
sorrow the proongation Of the strike to
the end that seems inevitable.
A dispatch from New York yesterday
says: President Roosevelt will be asked to
call a special session of Congress to take
action to end the coal strike. This was de-
cided at meeting today Of the Central
Federation Union, representing 250,OO0
workingmen.
labor unions Of New York city and vicinity
will be held, at which resolutions will be
adopted urging President Roosevelt to i'm
mediately call Congress to meet and decide
upon plans which will bring the strike to
speedy termination.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa, says:
The committee from the Public Alliance of
this city which waited on Senators Quay
and Penrose at Atlantic City last week and
urged them to use their good offices to
bring about arbitration In the coal strike
performed like mission in this city today
when they called on President Mitchell and
requested him to cooperate with the Penn
sylvanfa senators In bringing about a set
tlement of the strike.
Mr.. Mitchell said he would do anything
that was honorable to bring about an ad-
justment, and he furnished the committee
with the statistics of the strike from the
miners point OF view, which were forward
ed to Senator Quay tonight
1t has just been learned that President
Mitchell was badly shaken up In a railroad
wreck at Reising. Ill. early last Monday
morning. The train ranfnto a washout and
nearly all the cars left the track. The
sleeper in which Mr.. Mitchell was riding
left the rails, and he's was thrown with
much force from his berth. The engineer
and fireman Of the train, however, were
the only persons who were injured.
D. ]. Mccartney, chairman, and Matthew
Long and Harry Silverman, members of the
executive committee of the Peoples ALI
ance of Hazleton, went to New York yes
terday to endeavor to put Into opera ton
some plan looking to a termination of the
strike. They decline to make public their
plan or to say whom they hope to see in the
metropolis The Peoples Alliance Is COM
posed of business men and miners.