The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-10-08
STRIKE WILL CONTINUE.
PEACE CONFERENCE. A COMPLETE
FAILURE.

PEACE CONFERENCE. A COMPLETE
FAILURE.
1t Looks Like a Famine-Operators
Snub Mitchell and Refuse
Mitchell's Suggestion for
National Arbitration
and Scores Him.
Washington, Oct. 3.-The great
coal conference between the presi-
dent and the representatives. of the
operators and miners came to an
end at the temporary White House,
facing Lafayette Square, at 4:55 o.
clock this afternoon, with failure to
reach an agreement, and, apparent
ly, the rock upon which the con.
ference split was the recognition OF
the miners union. The president
had urged the contending parties to
cease strife in the interest of the
public welfare; the miners, through
the president of their union, had
expressed a willingness to submit
the differences to arbitration trial to
be named by the president. and to
enter into an agreement to abide by
terms fixed by the arbitration for a
period of one to five years; and the
employers, through the presidents
of>the railroad companies. and a
prominent operator, had squarely
refused arbitration, had denounced
the miners labor organization as a
lawless and anarchistic body, with
which they could and would have
no dealings: had demanded FEEDER
al troops to insure complete protec-
ton to workers and their families
in the mining region, and court pro.
ceedings against the miners union,
and had offered, if the men return
ed to work, to submit grievances at
individual collieries to the decision
of the judges Of the court of COM
mon pleas for the district of Penn
sylvania in which the colliery was
located. There the matter closed.
Tonight both the miners and the
operators are still in the city, but
tomorrow they will return to their
several localities, each saying at a
late hour tonight that the struggle
will continue. ........ ...
1t was a remarkable chapter in
the economic history of the country
that was written today. For the
first time the president of the Re-
public bad intervened directly be-
! tween the forces of apital and Ia
Dor in an effort to avert what he
himself regarded as great national
calamity. The result was to bring
the principals in the great contro-
versy face to face, with the whole
country eagerly intent and watch
full of their ,doings. Technically,
the issues between the two great
forces stand as they did before the
president summoned the represen-
tatives of the contending forces to
the national capital, and, forgetting
his own accute suffering, besought
them, for love of the great country
wherein they dwelt, and out of pity
for the countless throng Of suffering
poor, to adjust their differences and
work together in peace for the com
mon veal.
| What, if anything, will result
from the conference is for the inde-
finite future. Today the views Of
the contenders in the great indus
trial struggle were so extreme and
wide apart that there was no middle
ground possible, and so the confer.
ence came to an end without any
agreement for its continuation. The
conference had lasted six hours, in.
Guiding recess of three hours be-
tween the morning and afternoon
sessions, taken to enable the min
ers and operators to prepare writer
responses to the presidents appeal
The immediate parties to the strug
gle say they will continue as here
tofore. What course the admins
tration will take next no one is pre-
pared to say. One of the operators
as he left the White House, wa,
asked regarding this, and replied
eff any one knows what the presi
dent will do next, that is more thar
: I know"
It was five minutes when the con
ference ended. The operators cam
: down stairs and held brief consul
tation, and then left in their carria
ges for their train, where they me
number of newspaper men, t.
whom they furnished copies of tn
t statements they had made to tn
f president. Stipulating that the.
should not be quoted, they talked
i freely of the conference. Several O