The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-04

MarkIe, an independent mine operator, and Messrs. Truesdale, Wilcox and Fow-
 Ter. of the Lackawanna. Delaware and Hudson and Ontario and Western Rail- roads respectively.
 A inge of tho dramatic was given to the proceedings by MT. Marixle who. in addition to the prepared statement, told the President chat he wanted to present the case in another light and as Exhibit
 A" he handed the President copy of an. illustrated paper with Q cartoon. show- ing a non-unIon miner being abused by the union miners and prevented from going to work, with Justice bound and pcwefless. It was laid on the table with other papers, the President making no comment.
 STATEMENT FROM
 PRESIDENT BAER. The following statement was issued by Geofge F. Baer, president of the Reading Raifroaa:
 ''To the President of the United States: |: We understand xoufs anxiety ass forcibly expressed in the Statement yeu readFto. us
 this morning tosbripg' about an imme- diate resumption of onerations in the
 coal mines in. such way as will. without | a days unnecessary delay. meet the cry-
 ing needsFcf> the people, We infer that
 you desire us to consider the offer;of Mfr
 Mitchell verbally made this morning, ex.
 pressing and speaking for the United Mine Workers. to go back to work. if you would appoint commission to determine the question at issue.
 You distinctly say that you do not invite o discussion of your respective claims and positions But we assure a statement of what Is going on in the coal regions will not be irrelevant. We rep- | regent the owners of coal mines in Penn sylvania. There are from fifteen to i twenty lthousapd men at work mining and preparing coal They are abused as- sauIted. injured and malterated byy the United Mine Workers. They can &srls only under the protection of asuad | guards. Thousands of other wopltsnen are deterred from working by the intarAda- | ton, violence. and crimes inaSsurated by the United Mipe Workers. over whom John MitcheE. who you invited to meet you is chief. l 'I need not picture the daily crimes | committed by .the members of this orBani. zation. The domestic tranquility which | every constitution declares Is the Chief | object of government, does not exist in the coal regions. There is terribie
 reign of lawlessness and crime there chly | the lives and property Of the members | of the secret oafhsbound order which de- clared that the locals should have full
 power to suspend operations at collieftes. until the non-union men joined their
 order are safe. Every effort iS made to
 prevent the mining of coal. ana. when mined. Mitcheffs men dynamite bridges ! and tracks, mob trainmen, ana by all
 ma1or violence try to prevent it's ship
 mept to relieve the public.
 ''The constitution of pennsyivania guar antees protection to life and property. In express terms 1t declares the right of ac- quiring, possessing and defending proper | ty to be inalieanble.'
 'when riot and anarchy too great to be appeased by the civil power occur. the Governor of Pennsylvania is bound to call out the State troops to suppress 1t. ne must fearlessly use the whole z 7wer
 of the State to protect life and property
 and to establish peaoe-not an armed | truce. but the peace of the law which | protects every man at work and going to and from work. He has sent troops | to the coal regions. Gradually the power of the law is asserting itself. Un- | less encouraged by false hoSes, order
 will soon be restored. and then we can mine coal to meet the public wants
 A LAWFUL WAY TO, | TO GET OUE COA0'
 "If the power of Pennsylvania Is insuf-
 fcient to re-estabhsh the region of law.
 the constitution of the United States re-
 quires the President, when requested by
 the legislature and Governor. to suppress
 domestic violence You see there Is a | lawful way to secure coal for the public.
 "The duty of the hour is not to waste time negotiating with the fomenters of this anarchy and inselent defiance os law, | but to do as was done in the war of the | rebellion, restore the majesty of law, the
 only guardian of a free people, and to re-
 establish order and peace at any cost. The government is a contemptible | failure If it cannot protect She lives and | property and secure the comfort of the people only by compromising with the 1 violators of law and the tnstigators Of | violence and crime.
 "Just now it'is more important to teach l ignorant people dwelling among us mis- 1 led and used as tools by citizens of other | States that at whatever cost and incon-
 venience to the public. Pennsylvania will use the whole power of government to proteotAnot only the man who wants to
 work, but his wife and children while he
 is at work and to punish everysman who, | by instigation or overt acts, attempts to deprive any man of his liberty to work.
 Under these conditions. we decline to accept Mir Mitchell's considerate offer to let our men work on terms he names.
 He has no right to come from Illinois
 to dictate terms 0h the acceptance of which anarchy and crime shall cease in
 Pennsylvania. He must stop his people | from killing maiming and abusing Penn | sylvanIa citizens and from destroying property. He must stop 1t because 1t Is unlawful and not because of and bargain | with us.
 We will add to our offer to continue l the wages existing at the time of the 1 strike and to take up at each colliery and | adjust any grievance this further con- | dition if the employers and employees at ! any particular colliery cannot reach l satisfactory adjustment of any alleged 1 grievances fl shall be referred to the 1 Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the District, in which the colllery ts sit
 uated for final determination,
 George r. Baer
 ''President Philadelphia and Reading | Coal and Iron Company and Lehigh and wiIkosbarre Coal and Iron Com pnny and Temple Iron Company STATEMENT lIADE
 BY STRIKE LEADERS. l The following is the text or the state i ment made to the President by the off, cial representatives of the Miners Union: Washington. D. C., Oct 8. 1902
 MT. Presidential the conference this l morning we the accredited representa- lives of the anthracite coal mine work