Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-04

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During last evening President
Mitchell, CT the mine workers union,
dictated a formal statement concern
ing the proceedings OF the conference
and its results, in which he announced
that the STRIKE WOULD CON.
TINUE AS A RESULT OF TIE
FAILURE OF THE CONFERENCE.
He concluded his statement as fol-
lows:
THE PRESIDENT EXPRESSED
THE HOPE THAT THERE WOULD
BE NO LAWLEsSNEss IN THE
COAL FIELDS AND THE REPRE-.
sENTATIVEs OF THE MINERS AS
sURED HIM THAT THEIR EVERY
E.1CET W0UL6 g. EXEGTEO TO
MAINTAIN PEACE.
The conference yesterday was a
failure
! Apparently the rock upon which the
conference split was recognition or
the miners union. The president had
urged the contending parties to cease
strife in the interests Of the public
welfare; the miners, through the pres
ident of their union, expressed a will
ingness to submit differences to arbi-
tration of a tribunal to be named by
the president and to enter into an
agreement to abide by terms fixed by
the arbitration for period of from
one to five years, and the employers,
+ through the presidents Of the railroad
and coal companies and leading in
dependent mine operator, had square
: ly refused arbitration, had DE-
NoUNCED THE MINERS LABOR
! ORGANIZATION AS A LAWlESS
AND ANAECHISrlc BODY, With
which they could and would have no
dealings; had DEMANDED FEDERAL
TROOPS to insure complete protec-
ton to workers and their families in
the mining region and court proceed
ings against the miners union, and
| had offered if the men returned to
work to SUBMIT GRIEVANCES AT
INDIVIDUAL LOLLIERIES TO THE
DECISION OF THE JUDGES OF
THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
for the districts CT Pennsylvania in
which the collieries are located.
There the matter closed.
Each said at late hour last night
that the STRUGGLE WILL CON-
TINUE.
A statement oA3 issued at the TEN.
porary White House last night, which,
in part, named those present, who,
besides the president, operators and
miners representatives, were Attor-
ney General Knox, Carroll D. Wright,
commissioner of labor, and Secretary
Cortelyou.
The president made a statement, as
| follows:
President Appeals For Settlement.
Iwish to call your attention to the
fact that there are three parties af'
fected by the situation in the anthra-
cite trade: The operators, the
miners and the general public.
speak for neither the operators nor
. the miners, but for the general pub
lie. The questions at issue which led
to the situation affect Immediately the
parties cOncerned-the operators and
the miners-but the situation itself
vitally affects the public. AS long as
there seemed to be a reasonable hope
that these matters could be adjusted
between the parties, it did not seem
proper to me TO intervene in any way.
| disclaim any right or duty to inter
vene in this way upon legal grounds
or upon any otticial relation that
J bear to the situation; but the urgency
and the terrible nature Of the catas.
| trophe impending over large portion
Of our people in the shape or winter
| fuel famine impel me after much
| anxious thought to believe that my
| duty requires me to use whatever In
! fluence | personally can to bring to
! an end a situation which has become
| literally intolerable. | wish to empha-
size the character Oh the situation anj
to say that its gravity is such that |
| am constrained urgently to insist that
! each one of you realize the heavy
! burden Of responsibility upon him.
! We are upon the threshold of winter,
with an already existing coal famine,
! the future teirois OF which We can
hardly yet appreciate
Evil Possibilities Appalling.
The evil possibilities are so far
reaching, so appalling, that it seems
to ME tnat you are not only justified
in sinking, ut required to sink, for
the time being, any tenacity as to
your respective claims in the matter
! at issue between you. In my judg-
ment the situation imperatively re-
quires that you meet upon the COM
mon plane CT the necessities Of the
public. With all the earnestness
there is in me ask that there be an
immediate resumption Of operations
in the coal mines in some such way
as will without a days unnecessary
delay meet the crying needs Of The
people.
l do not invite discussion OF your
respective claims and positions.
apDeal to your patriotism. to the