Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-10-10
COAL STRIKE GOES'ON
CONFERENCE OF MINERS AND
OPERATORS WITH PREsi.
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DENT A FAILURE.
Strikers Agree to Submit the Matter
to a Board Of Arbitration Selected
= by the President but Employers OBJ
-stinateIy Refuse to Do Likewise
and Demand That Federal! Troops
Be Sent to the Mining REGION.

Washington, Oct. 4.-The coal con-
ference between the president and
representatives of the operators and
miners came to an end at the tenn
porary White House during the after
noon with failure to reach an agree
ment. Apparently the rock upon
which the conference split was recog-
milton of the miners union. "
The president had urged the con-
tending parties to cease strife in the
interests Of the public welfare. The
miners, through. the president of their
union had expressed willingness to
submit differences to arbitration OF a
tribunal to be named by the presi-
dent and enter into an agreement to
abide by terms fixed by the arbitra-
tion for period of from one to five
years. The employers, through the
presidents of the railroad and coal
companies and a leading Independent
mine operator, had squarely refused
arbitration; had denounced the min
ners' labor organization as lawless
and anarchistic body with which they
could and would have no dealings;
had demanded federal troops to en-
sure complete protection to workers
and their families in the mining
region, and court proceedings against
the miners union, and had offered, it
the men returned to work, to SUBJ
nit grievances at the Individual col
lieries to the decision of the Judge Of
court of common pleas for the dis
trict OF Pennsylvania in which the
colliery was located.
It was remarkable chapter in the
economic history of the country that
was written during the day. For the
first time the president of the re-
public had interviewed in the difficulty
between the great forces of capital
and labor in an effort to avert what
he himself regarded as a
Great National Calamity.
The result was to bring the principals
in the great controversy face to face,
with the whole country eagerly in
tent and watchful of their doings.
Technically the issues between the
two great forces stand as they did
before the president summoned the
representatives of the contending
forces 10 the national capital, and,
forgetting his own acute suffering, be-
sought them for love OF the great
country wherein they dwelt, and out
of pity for the countless throng OF
suffering poor, to adjust their differ
ences and work together in peace TO-.
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 so the
conference came to an end without
any agreement for it's continuation.
The conference had lasted six hours,
including a recess of three hours be-
tween the morning and afternoon ses-
sions, taken to enable the miners and
| operators to prepare written re.
sponses to the presidents appeal
The Immediate parties to the strike
say they will continue as heretofore.
What course the administration will
take next no one is prepared to say
One of the operators as he left the
White House with closely set jaw
was asked regarding this and replied
IF any one knows what the president
will do next, that is more than
know"