The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-04

| that the issues eliminating in tMs strike | shall be referred to you and a tripunai | of your own selection and agree to ac- | cept your award upon all or any or the questions involved. If you accept this responsibility and the representatves or the coal operators will signify their Will I ingness to have your decision incorpo- rated in an agreement, for not less than one year or mere than five years as may be mutually determined between them selves and the anthracite coal mine workers. and will pay the scale of wages which you and the tribunal appointed ey you shah award. we will Immediately eau a convention and recommend SeSump- | tion of work upon the understanding that the wages which shall be paid are to go | in effect from the day upon which work | .'very respectfully yours. | "John Mitchell President of United Mine Workers of America.
 "John Fahy, Thomas Duffy, ID. D. Nichols.
 ""pistrict Presidents United Mine Work CTS of America"
 JOHN MARKLE
 GIVES HIS VIEWS. John Markle. the independent coal mine operator, quoted President Rooseveits statement at the opening of the confer ence. and said he fully endorsed the re- | marks contained therein.
 'T now ask you." said Mir. Markle. "to perform the duties vested in you as the | President of the United States, to at once | sdueich the anarchistic condition of af- | fairs existing in the anthracite coal re- gions by the strong arm of the militia at | your command
 He then proceeded to enumerate list | of acts of lawlessness which. he said, had occurred in the anthracite field, and con- tirVed:
 You are asking us to deal with a sei l of outlaws. can hardly conceive oi
 such a thought The respectable citizeni of these United States will insist uper the officers in power giving to1 the citi gems of PennsyiSaniA law and, order aIlf the right to work If they 20 deslres
 Mir. MarkIe thsn stated that as tine rep rssautative of the inaitidusl coal opera, tors and of .he majority of the antbya
 cite coal workers. inalpding some 17ec
 nep N6o are now working. "sndeavoring asdiSAt, great odds to retaeve the pwhlit of tho possibilities of coal famine." h. appealed to the President if he ,desiret
 antRraoite. coal to be placed on the mar | hst quickly. to take the necessary step' l & onoeland put the Federal troops in tht 1 field, end ssiVe to those desiring to wori
 proper protection at all times as well al l protection for their families and homes while they work.
 l DO this" MT. Marlxle continued, "ant | the eidzens of the United States whom
 represent, seem to feel that they have
 right to ask this of you, and iwii assure
 placed in the market to relieve the seri ousness of the situation"
 | MT. Maylae then stated that there is ( large idle class of men now in the an l thrscite coal fields. taking every kind .al unlawful act to prevent those who desire | to work to relieve the situation from do' | ing so, and that now only S,0o0 National Guard are in the field. while the total National Guard of Pennsylvania is about | 10, 900.
 Concluding, he said;
 MT President, a condition exists, not | a theory. in the anthracite coal fields, between a set of professional agitators and their co-workers on the one side (an- | archistic in their acts) and the operators | and a majority of the workingmen on the | other who are endeavortng to relieve the l seriousness of the anthracite coal situa- l ten. You, Mir. President I believe. can
 relieve the situation at once. VIII you do it?'
 MIR. rRUESDALB OF
 THE LACCKAWANNA. W. 1T. Truesdale of the Delaware, Lack | awanna and Western Railroad Company. | followed Mir MaFkle. He declared 1t was | the duty of the coal mine operators to protect the rights of those whose inter- | ests had been intrusted to their care as
 well as the rights of their employees, who,
 he claimed, were being peTsecuted because they sought to work at their chosen
 avocation or to protect the property of l their employers, who. he declared, were ] endeavoring lawfully and peacefully only
 to maintain possession of protect and l operate their properties He regarded it | as the first duty of the operators to im- press upon the President of the United States and the Pennsylvania authority | the necessity for immediately suppressing
 the condition of anarchy and lawlessness
 which, he stated, had been existing In
 the anthracite regions for the last i've
 months with more or less violence. | He urged in the second place that the | civil branch of the United States govern
 ment at once institute proceedings against
 ''the illegal organization known as the l United Mine Workers Association, its
 well known officers, agents and members, | to entoin and restrain permanently 1t and | them from continuing this organization | and requiring them to desiSt immediate
 ly from conspiring. conniving, aiding or abetting the outlawry and intolerable conditions in the anthracite regions for
 which they and they alone are responsi- | ble."
 | Mir. Truesdale maintained that the laws of the United States were daily being violated openly and that previous court decisions justify civil action being taken at this time. He further urged that the protection of the United States be given | to the operators property and employees | and continued:
 Gan 1t be expected that those who | are now daily fragrant violaters of the 1 laws. State and national. who have no 1 respect for the rights of persons. prop erIy. order or good morals will be bound , by the decisions of any commission or l body of men which has no power or au- 1 thority to compel compliance herewith? | We know they will not be-
 ! AS his third point Mir. Truesdale de- | clared that loyal citizens of Pennnsyl-
 vapia who have been pursuing their va rious avocations or professions under
 great sacrifices, have been boycotted and 1 (Contin1d on Page Two.