The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-10-07
TREY SPLIT ON THE UNION,
The Great Coal Strike Conference in Wash
ington and Its Recults
(By the Associated PreSS.)

Washington, D.. c.. Oct. 3-The great
coal conference between the President
and representatives of the operators and
lniners came to an end at the temporary
White House facing La Fayette Square
at 4:55 o'clock this afternoon, with a
failure to reach an agreement. Appar-
entity the rock upon which the conference
split was recognition of the miners
union.
Tho President had urged the con-
tending parties to cease strike in the in
tcrcsts Of the public welfare: the miners
through the president of their union had
expressed a willingness TO submit differ
cnccs to the arbitration of a tribunal to
be named b" the President and to enter
into an agreement to abide by terms
fixed By the arbitration fer a period of
from one to five years. and the employers
through the presidents OF the railroad
and coal companies, and a leading indie
pendent mine operator had squarcly re-
fused arbitration, had denounced the
miners labor organization as a law1css
and anarchistic body with which they
could and would have. no dealings, had
demanded Federal troops to ensure com
pleto protection to workers and their
families in the mining region and court
proceedings against the miners union an9
had offered if the men returned to work
to submit grievances at Individual col
lierics to tho decision of the Judges Of the
court of common pleas for the district
of Pennsylvania in which tho collinry
was situated. There the matter closed.
Tonight both the minors and the opera
tors are still in the city but tomorrow
1EpV return ia thcir coucra1 1oca1itjoc
each saying at q late hour that the strug-
gle 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 Republic had interviewed
directly betWaen the great forces OF capt
tai and labor in an effort to avert what
he himself regarded as q great national
calamity. The result was to bring the
principals in the great controversy face
to face with the whole country, eagerly
intent upon, and Watchful Of their aoings.
Technically the issues between the two
great forces stand as they did before
the President summoned representatives,
of tho cOntcnding forces to the national
capital and forgetting his own acute suf-
fcring besought them for love Of the
great country. wherein they lwolt and
out cl pity Tor the countless thr0nC OF
suffering DOOR to adjust their differences
and work together in peace for the com
monWealth. What il anything will result
from tho conference is for the indefinite
future.
Fourteen men, including tho President.
were in the second story front room at
the temporary White House during the
nlomCntnIS conference. President Mitch
ell and three OF his district leaders rem
resented tbs miners and five railroad
mine and one Independent mine owner
the EMPLOYERS. With the President were
httornev General Knox, Commissioners OF
Labor Wright and Secretary Cortclvon
All tic Cabinet save the Attorney Cen
eral kept aloof during the conference, but
between the two meetings and afterwards
several of the Presidcnts's advisors called
upon him to talk over the situation. What
took place at the meeting is set out in
ample statements made by each side and
given tut to the press by themselves and
also officially at the White House.
During the conference the President
listened~to both sides with the greatest
eagerDeSS. Immediately after it's ad.
iournment his physicians, Surgeon Gen.
eral Rixey and DIR. Long. insisted OF
making an examination of his wound ant