Milford chronicle., 1902-11-28

Mitchell Smiled When Told OF Opera
tors Action and Said He Had Not
, Asked for a Conference.-The Ready
TO Continue the Hearing.
Washington. Nov 26.-AI prospects
for an understanding between the
United Mine Workers and the coal op- !
orators, outside the anthracite coal |
strike commission, came to a sudden |
termination late yesterday afternoon |
through the receipt OF the following |
dispatch from the coal roads presi- |
dents to Wayne MacVeagh, represent
ing the Pennsylvania Coal Company |
and the Hillside Coal and Iron Com
pany:
1.-THE conditions are such that no
substantial progress toward an ad
justment can be made by the suggest
ed meeting. The general judgment
of the operators is that it will be
best for the present to go on with the
hearing. GEORGE F. BAER.
The announcement, coming as it did
after an all days conference in this
city between Mr.. MacVeagh and Mr..
Mitchell and his associates, attended
part of the time by Carroll D. Wright,
in an endeavor to adjust some details
of the proposed agreement between
the operators and the miners, COM
pletely surprised everyone here. From
a reliable source it is learned that the
( proposition that the operators meet
Mr. Mitchell on Friday was made at
the instance Of Mr. MacVeagh, who
was no less surprised than Mr.. Mitch
ell himself at the turn affairs took
yesterday
From statements made by Mr.. Oar
row early in the day the impression
had spread that complete agreement
would be affected at yesterdays con-
ference, but when the meeting broke
up Mr.. barrow read to the newspaper
men in the corridor outside his room
in Wizards hotel a statement which
made it clear that no final agreement
had been reached. and that no further
conferences were likely. The state
ment was as follows:
1.-THE conference was simply con
tinuation of the conferences held a
Scranton, and with precisely the same
object-that of trying to reach a basis
of hopeful discussion for an amicabl'
settlement. Mr.. MacVeagh has no
been in Scranton since Thursday, ant
some matters developed as to whicl
a further conference might be usefu
before either the operators or the reI
resentatives of the miners approach
the serious task of formulating a def
, mite agreement for their signatures.
Mr.. Mitchell, when shown the dis
patch from New York. telling of tn
action of the operators, simply smile
, and said that he had not asked fo
the conference, but that when it wa
+ suggested to him if it would be agre,
J. able to meet the operators, he said
would. Mr.. barrow and Mr.. LlOy
J. however, were outspoken regardin
d the action of the operators. Mr.. Da
row said that it was now "up to Il
e operators" and that he would retuI
s. at once to Scranton, and on Tuesda
II next would appear before the cOmmi
= sion ready to go on with the hearin
e Mr.. Lloyd referred to the fact tn
Fridays conference had been sugges
It ed in order to adjust some matters {
d which there was still some disagree
y. ment. yet" said Mr. Lloyd. "the
le same men, who only last week wir'
u the commission their assent to t
II general provisions of the tentati
u agreement, and upon the strength
iT which the commission adjourned
= a week in order to give the parti
- time to get together, now go co
- pletely back on their former acti
I'D and call it all off. We are satisi
60 to go before the commission and CT
bo