The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-10-04
CONGRESS IS NOT TO BE
ASKED TO CONSIDER IT
Operators Return Polite Answer to the
President, to the Effect That They
Are Sorry, but They Can Not Listen
to His Appeal and the Big Strike Is
to Continue, Until Either One Side or
the Other Is Forced to Give In.
fBY ASSOCIATED PRESS,


Washington, Oct. 4.--There will be no
call for an extra session of congress to
deal with the coal strike situation at this
stage. The president expressly stated in
his appeal to the operators and representa-
tives of the miners yesterday that he did
not act officially in calling them together.
He has for the time being exhausted his
individual resources.
In his view, the matter is again one with
which the state Of Pennsylvania should
deal. If the commonwealth finds itselt
unable to control the situation and appeals
to him through constitutional channels,
the president will be ready to bring into
play the great force OF the national gov
ernment, military and civil. But for the
time being the president has relaxed his
efforts.
A great many radical suggestions have
been made as the result OF the failure of
the conference yesterday, and they include
everything from taking possession by the
government to sending United States
troops to Pennsylvania without regard to
any call from the governor of the state.
1t can be positively stated that none of
these suggestions has received any serious
consideration by the administration.
The Meeting OF Yesterday.
Washington Oct. 4.-The great coal con-
ference between the president and coal
operators came to an end at the temporary
white house, facing Lafayette square, at
Ass o'clock yesterday afternoon, with
failure to reach an agreement, and ap-
apparently the ,ock upon which the con-
ference split was the recognition of the
miners rnion.
The president had urged the contending
parties to cease strife in the interests of
the public welfare. The miners, through
the president of the union, had expressed
q willingness to submit the differences to
an arbitration tribunal, to be named by the
president and enter into an agreement to
abide by the terms fixed by the arbitration
for period of from one to five years.
Tie employers, through the presidents of
the coal company and one independent
operator, had squarely refused the offer,
and denounced the union as lawess and
anarchistic body with which they would
and could have no dealings, demanded
federal troops to insure complete protec-
tion to the workmen and families in the
region and court proceedings against the
miners union, and had offered, il the men
returned to work, TO submit grievances at
individual colleries to the decision Of the
judges of the court of common pleas for
the district of Pennsylvania, in which the
colliery was located
There the matter closed. Last night both
the miners and president were still in the
city, but today they will return to their
several localities, each saying at late
hour last night that the struggle will con-
time.
A Remarkable Incident
1t was a remarkable chapter in the
economic history of the country that was
written For the first time the president
OF the republic had intervencd directly be-
tween the great forces of capital and labor
in an effort to avert what he himself re-
garded as a great national calamity. The
result was to bring the principals in the
great controversy face to face with the
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