Arizona republican., 1902-10-04

Washington, October S.-The great coal conference between the president and the representatives of the opera tors and miners came t3 cn end at the temporary white house ct 4:55 o'clock this afternoon, with a failure to reach an agreement. And apparently the rock upon which the conference split was the recognition Of the Miners Union.
 The president urged the contendi1g parties to cease strife in the interest of the public welfare. The miners, through the president Of their union, expressed a willingness to submit the differences to an arbitration tribunal to be named by the president, and to enter into an agreement to abide by the terms fixed by arbitration for period of from one to five years, and the employers, through the presidents of the railroad companies and prominent independ- ent mine operator, squarely refused ar bitration and denounced the miners labor orCanizatiO as a lawiess and an archistic body, with which they could and would have no dealings. They de manded federal troops to insure com plete protection of workers and their families in the mining region and court proceedings against the miners union, and offered if the men returned to work to allow them to submit their griev- anccs at individual cCllieries to the de- Gesion of judges oc courts of common pleas for the districts in Pennsylvania in which the oollierieg were located.
 There the matter closed. Tonight both miners and operators are still in the city, but tomorrow they will re- turn to their several localities, each saying at a late hour that the strus gle will continue.
 It was a remarkable chapter in the economic history of the country that was written today. For the first time the president of the republic had inter vened directly between the great forces of capital and labor to avert what he, himself regarded as a great national calamity. The result was to bring the principals in a great controversy face to face, with the whole country eager ly intent and watchful of their do- ings.
 Technically the issues between the
 
 fore the president summoned the rep rcsentatives of the contending forces to the national capital and forgetting his own acute suffering besought them for love of the great country wherein they dwelt and out of pity for the countless throng of suffering pCor to adjust their differences and work to- gether in peace for the common good
 What if anything will result from the conference is for the indefinite fu ture. Today the views of the contend CTS in the great industrial struggle were so extreme and wide apart that there was no middle ground possible and so the conference came to an end without any agreement for it's discOn tinuation. The conference had lasted six hours, including a recess of three hours between the morning and after nOOnsessions, taken to enable the miners and operators to prepare writ ten responses to the presidents ap- 2 peal.
 The immediate parties to the struggle . say they will continue as heretofore. What course the administration will se.ake next no one is prepared to say. x s9ne of the operators as he left the white house was asked regarding this and replied:
 If anyone knows what the president will do next that is more than I know"
 Fourteen men, including the presi- dent, were in a second story front room at the temporary white house during the momentous conference President Mitchell and three of his district lead CTS represented the miners, and five railroad men and one independent mine operator the employers With the president were Attorney General Knox, Commissioner Of Labor Wright and Secretary COrtelyou. All the cabinet save Attorney General Knox kept aIoof during the conference, but between the two meetings and afterwards several of the presidents advisers called upon him to talk over the situation.
 During the conference the president listened to both sides with the greatest cagerness. Immediately after its ad- journment his physician Surgeon General Rixey, and Dr. Lung. insisted on making an examination of his wound and redressing it. Apparently nc i'll effects had resulted from the eX- citement of the day, and after later call at 8 o'clock Dr. Lung announced the presidents condition satisfactory.
 It was five minutes to five o'clock when the conference ended. The oper- ators came down stairs and held a prlef consultation, and then left in their cafrla8es for their train, where they met number cf newspaper men. to whom they furnished copies of state lhehts they had made to the president.
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