Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-04
HEARST STRIKE STORY
us PAPER EXPLAINS
HOW TWAS SETTLED
HOW HE HELPED PRESIDENT TO
FORCE COAL eARoNs INTO
ARBiTRATIoN-No
ENDED.

great strike in the anthracite region
of Pennsylvania is at an end and the
miners are preparing to return to
work.
The plain cold facts regarding the
settlement are that for nearly SIX
months the Department Of Justice. the
Interstate Commerce Commission, the
Secretary of War and other advisers
of the President persistently stated
that the Administration was without
power to intervene in the strike; that
on October 9Th the letter from Mr..
Hearst to the President was publish
ed. together with the petition to bring
the coal barons into court.
simultaneously with the filing Of
this petition there was tremendous nc.
tivity among the members of the Pres.
ident's Cabinet, followed by hasty Wis.
threats to J. Pierpont Morgan and to
the coal barons and a series of mid.
night conferences which eliminated n
the invitation of Mr.. Mitchell to Wa sh.
ington.
Fearing the result of the Hearst
suits against it. the trust, after its
first refusals, consented to arbitra,e
the strike.
This change of attitude and the
willingness to end the great strike
were the direct results OF the fight
waged by Mr.. Hearst against the OPP.
orators as violators of Federal and
State laws. In forcing the trust TO
end the strike the Hearst newspapers
greater than that in the fight against
the Ice Trust.
In the Ice Trust case the conspira.
tors were forced to reduce the price
from go cents for a hundred pounds
to 35 cents and 40 cents.
In the present case the coal opera.
tors, fearing the exposure of their
criminal methods. were forced to sub.
nit to arbitration one of the most dis
astrous strikes In the history of this
country.
The operators met today. Said )ne
vi uiN'i Nll' Al'fNAhEs
I'VE have spent the entire session in
discussion of the suits of Mr. Hearst
against the coal companies"
Mr.. Hearst. with the aid of United
States Attorney General Knox and
State Attorney General Davies. will
continue the fight against the trust to
the end.
It Is stated that President Roose.
welt has learned In advance much of
the forthcoming report of United
States District Attorney Burnett, and
Is determined to prosecute civilly and
criminally the operators who have
combined in defiance Of the Sherman
law.
The case made out by the "Ameri.
can Is in the hands of United States
District Attorney Burnett. He has
the proofs Of the conspiracy which Ir.
Hearst promised President Roosevelt
to produce. This proof, in the shape
OF documents given under the hands
and seals of the operators themselves,
show beyond the possibility OF a DOUBT
the existence of conspiracy to O..
strain trade by regulating the price
and output Of hard coal-a necessity
Of life.
General Burnett has been working
night and day on the case since it was
submitted to him on October 9th. His
report will be ready in few days and
win be sent at once to Attorney Gen.
eral Knox for immediate action.
Another suit of the American" Is
pending before Attorney General Da.
vies at Albany. The railroads ha oe
until next Monday to file their briefs,
but Attorney General Davies has ell.
ready gone over the case briefly and
his decision will not be much longer
delayed.
1t Is these suits and the strong owl
dence furnished by the American
that has made the trust change its at
titude.
When the operators refused TO con
slider any proposition except the un
conditional surrender Of the miners
the American" filed its petition with