The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-04


 ence between President Roosevelt and representatives of the operators and miners came to an end at the temporary White House this afternoon with fail | ure to reach an agreement. Apparently the rock upon which the conference split | was recognition of the miners union. The President had urged the contending | parties to cease strife fin the interests of the public welfare. The miners. through l the President of their union, had ex- pressed a willingness to submit differ | ences to arbitration of @ tribunal to be | named by the President and to enter into l an agreement to abide by terms fixed | by the arbitrators for a period of from one to five years The employers, through the Presidents of the railroad and coal companies and leading independent | mine operator. had squarely refused ar- | bitration. had denounced the miners la bor organization as a iawless and an- archistfc body with which they could not and would not have dealings; had de- | manded 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 individual | 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 the miners and the operators are still In | the city. but tomorrow they return to their several localities each saying at a late hour that the struggle will continue. A CHAPTER OF
 ECONOMIC HISTORY. It was a remarkable chapter in the economic history of the country that was | written today. For the first tfsne the | President of the Republic had intervened | directly between the great forces of cap- l ital and labor in an effort to avert what he himself regarded as a great national calamity. The result was to bring the l principals, in the great controversy face to face with the country eagerly inten, and waschful of their doings.
 Technically, the issues between the two great forces stand as they did before thu | President summoned the representative | of the contending forces to the nationa capital and forgetting his own acute suf | feFing besought them for the love of tht 1 great country wherein they dwelt and out | of pity for the countless thong of suffer. ing poor to adjust their differences an6 | work together in peace for the common | veal.
 Today the views of the contenders ir | the great industrial struggle were so ex. trene and wide apart that there was nc middle ground possible, and so the con. | ference came to an end without any agreement for It's continuation. The con- ference had lasted six hours. including l a recess of three hours between the morn l ing and afternoon sessions taken tc | enable the miners and operators to pre-. l pare a written response to the Presidents l appeal.
 THE BIG STRUGGLE
 WILL CONTINUE. The immediate parties to the strike 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 he replied
 If any one knows what the President will do next. thatis more than know" Fourteen men including the President were in the second stegv fvont room al the ternporory white House during the | conference President Mitchell and three | of his district leaders represented the l miners and five railroad men and one | independent mine operator, the employ CTS With the President were Attorney | General Konx, Commissioner of Labor | Wright and Secretary Coytslyou All the | cabinet save the Attorney General Kept aloof during the conference, but between the two meetings and afterward several | of the Presidents advisers called upor him to talk over the situation.
 During the conference the Presiden' listened to both sides with the greates' easerness. Immediately after its ad- tournment, his physicians, Sugeon Gen. eral Rixey and pr. Lung, insisted or making an examination of his woupd anc redressing it. Apparently no Ill enects l had resulted from the excitement ot. tht | day and after later call at o'clock l Dr. Lung announced that the Presldent | condition was satisfactory
 Todays conference began a few min utes after Il o'clock. President Mitchell and his three district presidents of the miners union, were the first to put in ar appearance at the temporary White | House.
 THE ARRIVAL OF
 THE PARTICIPANTS.
 The operators reached the temporary | White House at a few minutes past Il l o'clock. Each party was escorted to sep | arate rooms on the first floor and soor after they were ushered up stairs. tht miners representatives being ahead.
 In the front room on the second hool | they found the President awaiting them | Those present were President Roosevelt Attorney General Knox. Secretary Cortel' | you. Carroll D. Wright, Commissions l of Labor; President Baer of the Reading Company; Thomas of the Erie, Trues dale of the Delaware. Lackawanna anc | Western, and Fowler of the ontario anc Western Railroads; Daniel wilcox Vice. President of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, representing President OH phant; John Markle. representing the m, dependent coal operators, and FTeslaeh' | Mitchell of the Mine Workers Union
 with Thomas Duffy, T. D. Nichols ano
 John Fahy. Presidents of Districts Mum hers I i and g of the Miners Union, be ing inc districts where anthracite coal IS mined. Later Assistant Secretaries Loci
 and Barnes. who are stenographers' came into the conference room.
 The President entered at once on th'
 business in hand by reading a statement
 which he had carefully prepared, urging
 a settlement of the strike in the interests
 of +he nublic. His manner was exceed
 ,rgIv serious and his voice showed hi. deen feeling. His statement was as fol
 lows:
 STATEMENT MADE
 BY THE PRESIDENT
 q wish to call your attention to tn
 fact that there are three parties af