Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-10-10
ASKED TO End STRIKE
Presid mt RI osevelt Makes Appeal
: to Miners.
PRGPvS.TlN MADE TO MITCHELL.
An investigation of Grievances Is
Pledged = General belief That
the Proposal Will Not
he Accepted.

statement was maze puDllc at tAe
white house Tuesday afternoon:
ION Monday, October 6, Hon. Carroll
d. Wright, commissioner of labor,
went to Philadelphia and gave to Mr..
John Mitchell the following from the
presidents:
eff Mr.. Mitchell will secure the inn
mediate return to work of the miners
in the anthracite regions the president
will at once appoint a commission to
Investigate thoroughly into all the
matters at issue between the oper-
ators and miners, and will do all within
his power to obtain a settlement of
those questions in accordance with the.
report of the commission
mfr. Mitchell has taken this matter
under considera tion, but the president
has not yet been advised of any deci-
sion''
Conference Mt White House.
The president was in consultation
Tuesday for almost two hours with !
members of the cabinet relative to the /
coal strike situation. He also talked |
over the situation with DR.. Albert
Shaw and DR.. Lyman Abbott. About
1880 o'clock Frank P. Sargent, COM
missioner general of immigration, and
for many years chief of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, arrived
at the white house from his trip to
Philadelphia. where he went as the
emissary of the president to convey
to President Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers association, the propo-
sition of President Roosevelt that the
miners resume work. Mr.. Sargent had
not succeeded in seeing Mr.. Mitchell.
The president. however, had heard
from Commissioner of Labor Wright.
who saw Mr.. Mitchell on the same err
rand Monday night in Philadelphia,
and the latter's report was that Mr..
Mitchell desired time to consider the
proposition and lay it before his assoc
ciates. After a conference of about an
hour between the president, Attorney
General Knox. Postmaster General
Payne. Mr.. Sargent and Gen. James S.
GARRISON, it was decided to give out the
above statement. This was prepared
and issued by Secretary Cortelyou
shortly before two o'clock.
Not Favored by Mitchell.
Buffalo, N. Y, Oct. S.-Mr. Mitchell
positively declined to discuss the re-
quest made by President Roosevelt
that Mitchell use his influence to in
duce the miners to resume work,
with promise of the appointment
of commission to investigate the
miners grievances. 1t was learned
from reliable source, however, that
Mr.. Mitchell does not regard the
proposition favorably, and that he
will decline to ask the miners to re-
sumo work under the conditions stip-
inlated
A Critical Point.
Scranton, Pa, Oct. S.-The main
question now being asked is whether
OF not President Mitchell will call a
convention to consider the Roosevelt
proposition. If he calls saeh con-
vention it is thought the vote will
be to accept the presidents PROPOSE
ton. If he refuses to call it, there
is danger, it is quite generally be-
lieved by onlookers, and emphatical-
ly asserted by the company repre-
sentatives, a certain element of the
strikers will seize his refusal as an
excuse to make break. Officers of
the United Mine Workers who were
about the local headquarters refused
to discuss the possibility of a con-
-gention being called to vote on the
Roosevelt proposition, because the
national and district officers are now
considering it, and they alone are the
ones to pass upon it. From the
4rend of conversation among the 10
cal officers. however, it is a fair in
ference that they do not expect a
convention 10 be called.
Against Acceptance.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Oct. S.-The two
principal features of the anthracite
coal .trike which claimed public atten-
tion in the coal fields are: Will the
miners yield to the desire of the presi-
dent of the United States for them
to return to work and investigate aft
erwards, and will the mine operators
be able to carry out their promise to
produce CROUCH coal to relieve the sit
nation if given the protection of the
full military power of the state After
IA most careful inquiry among the dis
:trict officers (not including the dis
frict presidents, who were in Buffalo)
and the rank and file of mine workers.
at was found that sentiment is strongly
against accepting he presidents prop
~ositiOn in its present form. AS to the
other features of the situation as it
exists, opinion is divided and will re-
main so until the real test comes.
The presidents message to Mr..
Mitchell became known here Tuesday
afternoon, and it was earnestly dis
cussed by the striking miners and citi-
zens generally. 1t is positively known
to those who are close to the officers
of the union tfat President Mitchell
and his district presidents have all
along been opposed to the men return
ing to work without some concessions,
but whether they are etiii so inclined,
with the president appealing to them,
cannot be officially stated 1t is rea-
sonably certain, however, that they
still are opposed to such action.
How the Miners Feel,
An officer ofthe union now in the city
who does not care to be quoted in the
absence of President Mitchell. for fear
that it might be construed as being
Official said: "The anthracite mine
workers of Pennsylvania appreciate
the efforts being made by President