The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-04
EFFORTS TO End
STRIKE FAILED
The Two Factions Are as Far
Apart as Ever.
THE STRUGGLE
WILL CONTINUE.
Operators Positively Refuse to Treat
With the Miners Union.
MINE HEADERS RE-
FUSE OPERATORS OFFER.
There Was No Middle Ground Possible
and the Conference Closed With
out ANY Agreement - No
Further Steps Taken.

Washington. Oct 4.-The coal con-
ference between the president and
representatives of the operators and
miners came TO an end at temporary
White House Friday afternoon with a
failure to reach an agreement. APP
parently the rock upon which the con-
ference split was recognition of the
miners union.
The president had urged the con-
tending parties to cease strife in the
interests of public welfare. The min
ers through the president of their I'M
ion had expressed a willingness to sub
NIT differences to arbitration OF a trib-
unal to be named by the president and
TO enter into an agreement to abide
by the 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
one leading independent mine operat-
or bad squarely refused arbitration,
had denounced the miners labor or
ganization as q lawless and anarch-
istic body with which they could and
would have no dealings had demand
ed federal troops to ensure complete
protection to workers and their fam
lilies in the mining region. and court
proceedings against the miners union
| and had offered, if the men returned
to work to submit grievances at in
diyidual collieries to the judges of the
( courts of common pleas for the dis
trict of Pennsylvania In which their
, colliery was located The matter
closed. Both the miners and the oper-
ators returned to their several local
tiles to continue the struggle.
1t was remarkable chapter in the
economic history of the country. For
the first time the president OF the re-
public had interviewed between the
| great forces Of capital and labor in an
| effort to avert what he himself regard
! ed as a great national calamity The
| result was 10 bring the principals In
| the great controversy face to face with
| their whole country eagerly intent and
| watChful of their doings. Technically
! the issues between the two great
! forces stand as they did before the
| president summoned the representa-
! tives of the c0ntending forces to the
| national capital and forgetting his own
acute suffering besought them for this
! love OF the great country wherein they
dwell and out Of pity for the countless
| throng of suffering poor to adjust their
| differences and work together In peace
| for the common veal
The views Of the contenders in the
great industrial struggle were so ex.
IRENE and wide apart that there was
| no middle ground possible, and 80 the
conference came TO an end without
| any agreement for its continuation
| The conference lasted six hours. in
GLIDING a recess OF three hours be-
tween the morning and afternoon SEES
sions taken to enable the miners and
operators to prepare A written response
| TO the presidents appeal
The immediate parties to the strike
say they vii t@rsn heretofore
| What course tie Gl clL.5,r.. ion viii
take next no one lis prepared 10 say
One Of the operators. as be left the
| White House with ciosely-set jaw. was
| asked regarding this, and he replied:
IF any one knows what the president
| will do next is more than / know
| Fourteen men, including the presi-
dent, We're in the second story front
| room at the temporary White House
during the momentous conference
| President Mitchell and three OF his
| district leaders represented the miners
and FIVE railroad men and one indie
pendent mine operator. the employ
| ers. With the president were Attor
ney General Knox. Commissioner al
| Labor Wright and Secretary Cortel
| you. All the cabinet save the attorney
general kept aloof during the confer
ence, but between the two meetings
and afterward several of the presi
dents advisers called upon him to talk
! over the situation.
one Of the presidents advisers wht
was seen intimated that some consid
Grafton had been given before th'
| conference to the question OF the tut
ure course of the administration II
| the event either party refused aDso
lutely to do anything toward settle
ment. He intimated that there was
| possibly the interstate commerce
commission might be able to tak'
some steps with respect to carrying
| charges on the anthracite coal roads
| Still. public sentiment he added, was
the chief resource of the president al