Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-09

we Will mine coal, and, moreover,
we will see to its distribution" the
president is quoted as saying.
Congress May Be Called.
The presidents future course is a
carefully guarded secret. 1t is sug-
gested that he may call congress in
extraordinary session to pass a law
which will enable the executive branch
of the government to seize and operate
the mines. IT is suggested also that
he has an understanding with the
Pennsylvania authorities by the terms
Of which Governor Stone will request
the federal government to send troops
into the mining regions and assume
control of the mines.
Martial law could then be declared
and once in operation the president
would be supreme He could mine
coal. He could, if necessary, seize the
coal roads and compel them to carry
the product of the mines.
Synopsis of the Conference.
In sum and substance this is what
happened at the conference:
1. President Roosevelt read to the
conferrees his appeal for peace in be-
half of the public.
2. President Mitchell on behalf of the
miners responded with a proposal that
the men would go back to work at once
and leave the question of new wages
to President Roosevelt and a commits
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only that the representatives of the
mining corporations also bind them
selves to accept the verdict.
3. This was scornfully rejected by
all the corporation managers, each of
whom declared that he would have
nothing to do with any proposition
emanating from John Mitchell or the
miners union.
No Dealings with Union.
f. The only semblance of PROPOSE
ton made by the railway presidents
was that the miners first return to
work and then as individuals, not as
an organization, present their grley-
ances to the mine bosses. If the mine
bosses could not adjust them the COM
panies would agree to have them re-
fereed by the judges OF the common
pleas court. But in no case was there
to be any business dealings with the
union.
5. Then the railway presidents made
a violent personal attack upon Presl-
dent Mitchell and the Mine Workers
union, charging them with completely
in disorder and murder in the coal re-
gion
6. The railway presidents also turned
on President Roosevelt and demanded
of him that lie send federal troops to
the anthracite field, COUGHING their de-
mand in language which President
Roosevelt himself resented as imperti-
nent and offensive.
WHOLE OF PENNSYLVANIA GUARD
Ordered into the Strike Region, and Why
~ 1t Has Been Done.
Harrisburg, Pa, Oct. 7.-Governor
Stone has ordered out the entire di-
vision of fhe National Guard of Penn
sylvania to duty in the anthracite coal
regions The soldiers are in the field
today. The order calling out the guards
gives the following as the reason for
such action: I'm certain portions Of the
counties of Luzerne, Schuylkill, Car
bon, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, North
cumberland and Columbia tumults and
X,;a +e, nd IOx
reigns; men who desire to work have
been beaten and driven away and their
families threatened. Railroad trains
have been delayed, stoned, and the
more serious each day =
LAS tulmults, riots, mobs and disOr-
der usually occur when men attempt to
work in and about the coal mines he
1.-THE commanding general will see their
all men who desire to work and their
families have ample military prOtec-
ton. He will protect all trains and
other property from unlawful interior
ence, and will arrest all persons engag-
ing in acts of violence and intimidation
and hold them under guard until their
release will not endanger the public
peace; will see that threats, intimida-
tons, assaults and all acts of violence
cease at once"
Governor Stone called conference
of the general officers Of the guard, at
which it was decided to place these
troops in the field.
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Death of barbarian Brown"
Butte, Mont, Oct. 7.-Priyate adj