The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-04
HO SETTLEMENT OF
 TKE COAL STRIKE. Washington Conference a Complete Failure ---Oper- ators Will Have No
 Dealings With
 Mitchell. LATTER WOULD ARBITRATB COAL PRESIDENTS, HOWEVER,
 NOT WILLING.
LATTER WOULD ARBITRATE
COAL PRESIDENTS, HOWEVER,
 NOT WILLING.

Demand That Federal TI oops he Sent to
 Protect the MIues-Miners' Organiza-
 tion Denounced as LawIess and
 Anarchistic Body With Which They
 Can Have Nothing to Do-OTer, if
 Men Return to Work, to Submit
 Grievances at Individual COIIieries t0
 Common Pleas ent's
 Next Step i'm Doubt.
 Washington, Oct. s.-The great coal conference between the president and representatives of the operators and miners came to an end at the tempor- ary white house at 4:55 o'clock this af- ternoon with a failure to reach an agreement. Apparently the rock upon which the conference split was recog- hilton of the miners union. The presi- dent 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 abitration of a tribunal to be named by the president and to enter into an agreement to abide by the terms fixed by the arbitration for a period of from one to five years and the employers through the presidents of the railroad and coal companies and leading inde- pendent mine operator had sQuarely refused arbitration, had denounced the miners labor organization as a lawless and anarchistic body with which they could and would have no dealings, had demanded federal troops to ensure com- plete protection to workers and their families in the mining region and court proceedings against the miners union, and had offered if the men returned to work to submit grievances at individ- ual 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 miners and operators are still in the city but tomorrow they return to their several localities each saying at late hour that the struggle will continue.
 It was a remarkable chapter in the economic history of the country that was written 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 to avert what he re- garded as 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 be- fore the president summoned the con- tending forces to the national capital. What, if anything will result from the conference is for the indefinite future To-day the views of the contenders 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. The conference had lasted six hours, including a recess of three hours between the morning and after noon session taken to enable the miners and operators to prepare written re- sponses to the presidents appeal
 ptIt1SS LO lH6 SlGIk6 say they will continue as heretofore What course the administration will take next no one is prepared to say. One of the operators as he left the white house with closely set jaw was asked regard ing this and replied: If any one knows what the president will do next, that is more than know"
 The president entered at once on the business in hand by reading state- 1nent which he had carefully prepared urging settlement of the strike in the interests of the public. His voice showed his deep feeling. Almost inl- mediately after the president had clos ed, Mr. Mitchell offered to submit s,l the differences to arbitration. The op- orators looked surprised but before any reply could be made President Roose- welt said he desired both parties take the matter under consideration and meet again at o'clock. The first ses- sion of the conference lasted less than 15 minutes. The operators were driven to their private cars and MT. Mitchell and his party returned to their hotels Both parties immediately set to work to prepare statements in reply to the presidents suggestions.
 The operators decided to make seo oar- ate responses but before doing so had d discussion of the general tenor of the statements they would make. It is un- derstood that President Baer submit ted his statement to parties in New York before reading 1t to the president There was only one stenographer on the special train and the time construed In dictating and preparng the state ments caused three of the operators to be 15 minutes late for the afternoon su ssion of the conference
 All the other parties to it were on I,~r,d at 2 n,n1nnIr At 2.1s ti,n n44n,.