The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-21
lations as shall for all time establish peace

lations as shall for all time establish peace
and tranquility in the coal fields.
The day is past when great organiza-
tions of capital can maintain the false po-
sition that their employees shall be denied
the right to organize into compact bodies
and speak through the organization of
the right of capital to consolidate, to fed
crate and to speak and act through it's
organization, but in according the rights
and privileges to capital, we demand and
who toll Between the combination of
capital on the one hand and the organiza-
ton of labor on the other there should be
and need be no jrreconcilable conflict;
each is a factor in the economic develop
ment of our civilization, and the applica-
ton Of business Judgment and plain COM
mon sense by each would enable them to
work in harmony. While the interests OF
labor and capital are not by any means
identical, they are nevertheless reciprocal.
Enunciated by Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln truly said that cap
ital is the fruit of labor, and could not
exist If labor had not first existed; labor
therefore deserves the first considera-
ton That this fundamental principle
will be recognized by the tribunal selected
by the president Of the United States, /
have no reason to doubt.
1.-The grave question which you have
been called upon to consider today de-
mands and must receive your most care
full thought. Personally l should have
existing in the anthracite field by confer
ence with the anthracite mine owners and
without the intervention of agencies not
directly involved but / recognize the fact
that relations between ourselves and the
operators have become SO strained as to
render direct negotiations at this time i'm
possible. If the consequences of this
strike affected only the interests of the
operators and mine workers, there would
be less reason for the Intervention of q
third party; but the fact that a coal fam
inc was upon the people and threatened
to become a national calamity, JuStlfleS
the action of the chief executive of our
nation in his earnest effort to bring about
an early resumption of mining.
Proposition Should Be Accepted.
'tThe proposition submitted for your
consideration may have Objectionable
features, and in it's detail may not meet
with the unanimous approval OF our peo-
pie, but it is immeasurably better as now
presented than when originally offered by
the representatives of the coal corpora
tions. l am firm in my conviction that
the prompt acceptance of this proposal
will secure to the anthracite mine workers
and those dependent upon them a greater
measure of justice than could attain by
continuing the conflict. l believe tnat the
prompt acceptance of this proposition VIII
secure to the mine workers a greater de-
gree of justice than they have enjoyed IN
the past. %,
anxious expectancy the result of your &C
ton today; the eyes of the nation are
centered upon you, and friends and foes
alike demand the submission OF issues IN
yolyed in this strike to the tribunal NOM
mated by the president of the United
States. That there are discordant ele-
ments in this convention: that there are
dissatisfied ones at home. l am fully
aware; but, gentlemen. with all the ear
nestness of which I am possessed, l urge
that you give your approval to the action tIo
of your executive officers who nave rec. rec
cd
fhat t the strike be declared off and all men
are then to return to work in the posi- 81,
lions and working places occupied !. py
strike, and that all questions at issue be
submitted for adjustment to the tribunal
selected by the president"