Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-04

Mitchell Said Strike Would Continue.
During last evening President
Mitchell, OF the mine workers union,
dictated formal statement concern
ing the proceedings OF the conference
and its results, in which he announced
that the STRIKE WOULD CON.
TINUE AS A RESULT OF THE
FAILURE OF THE CONFERENCE.
| He concluded his statement as fol-
lows:
THE PRESIDENT EXPRESSED
THE HOPE THAT THERE WOULD
BE NO LAWLEssNEss IN THE
COAL FIELDS AND THE REPRE-.
SENTATIVES OF THE MINERS AS
sURED HIM THAT THEIR EVERY
ErrCnT WOULD g. ExENTED TO.
MAINTAIN PEACE.
The conference yesterday was a
| failure
Apparently the rock upon which the
conference split was recognition OF
the miners union. The president hal
urged the contending parties to cease
/
welfare; the miners, through the pres
ident of their union, expressed will
ingness to submit differences to arbi-
tration of tribunal to be named by
the president and to enter into an
agreement to abide by terms fixed by
the arbitration for a period of from
one to five years, and the employers,
~ 0f ~
and coal companies and leading in
dependent mine operator, had square
ly refused arbitration, had DE-
NOUNCED THE MINERS LABOR
! ORGANIZATION AS A LAWLESS
AND ANAECHISrIC BODY, with
which they could and would have no
dealings; had DEMANDED FEDERAL
TROOPS to insure complete protec-
| ton to workers and their families in
the mining region and court proceed
ings against the miners union, and
had offered if the men returned to
work to SUBMIT GRIEVANCES AT
INDIVIDUAL LOLLIERIES TO THE
DECISION OF THE JUDGES OF
THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
for the districts CT Pennsylvania in
which the collieries are located
There the matter closed.
Each said at late hour last night
that the STRUGGLE WILL CON.
TINUE.
A statement NAs issued at the tenn
porary White House last night, which,
in part, named those present, who,
besides the president, operators and
miners representatives, were Attor-
ney General Knox, Carroll d. Wright,
commissioner of labor, and Secretary
Cortelyou-
The president made a statement, as
| follows:
President Appeals For Settlement.
Iwish to call your attention to the
fact that there are three parties af-
fected by the situation in the anthra-
cite trade: The operators, the
miners and the general public.
speak for neither the operators nor
. the miners, but for the general pub
lie. The questions at issue which led
to the situation affect Immediately the
parties commemorative operators and
the miners-but the situation itself
vitality affects the public. AS long as
there seemed to be a reasonable hope
that these matters could be adjusted
between the parties, it did not seem
proper to me TO intervene in any way.
| dlSclaim any right or duty to inter
vene in this way upon legal grounds
or upon any O1ficial relation that |
! bear to the situation; but the urgency
| and the terrible nature of the cataS-
] trophe impending over large portion
| Of our people in the shape Of a winter
| fuel famine impel me after much
anxious thought to believe that my
| duty requires me to use whatever in
i fiuence [ personally can To bring to
an end a situation which has become
| literally intolerable. | wish to empha-
size the character Oh the situation and
| to say that its gravity is such that
am constrained urgently to insist that
| each one of you realize the heavy
! burden Of responsibility upon him.
!, We are upon the threshold of winter
| with an already existing coal famine,
the future teirois OF which we can
! hardly yet appreciate.
Evil Possibilities Appalling.
The evil possibilities are so far
/ reaching, so appalling. that it seems
/ to me that you are not only justified
1 in sinking, ut required TO sink, for
the time being, any tenacity as to
| your respective claims in the matter
at issue between you. In my judg-
ment the situation imperatively re-
! quires that you meet upon the CON-
mon plane CT the necessities Of the
! public. With all the earnestness
| there is in me | ask that there be an
| immediate resumption OF operations
| in the coal mines in some such way
as will without days unnecessary
delay meet the crying needs Of the
people.
/ do not invite a discussion OF your
respective claims and positions.
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