Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-10-14
NOT FAV0RABLY
RECEIVED
Large Number Of Miners Object to the
Limitations in the Operators
Proposition
MITCHELL SAYS NOTHING
An Element Of the Miners Feel Mitchell Should Accept
n and Trust TO President Roosevelt TO Ap-
point a Fair and Impartial
Commission.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 14.-Presiden
Mitchell of the Miners Union, refused
point blank, to talk for publication thi
time on the new proposal for arbitra
ton Of the strike, laid before Presiden
Roosevelt last night by the president:
of the coal carrying roads. No oficia
information can be had as to his views
and he himself does not know whether
he will make statement later in the
day. The news of the new offer was
variously received by the striking min
ers of the region. 1t did not become
known until well in the morning and
there We're many different views taken
by the men, There is a large number OF
mine workers who favor the rejection
of the offer as formulated by the opera
tors, while there are equally as many
who see some good in the offer. The
confidence in the judgment of their
leader, and it is certain that they will
leave the matter in his hands to work
out.
Comparing Mitchell's offer made to
the president ten days ago with that of
operators made last night, there are
many persons who look upon the opera
tors offer as a counter proposition.
Mitchelps offer was that the president
should appoint the commission. The
operators go step farther by stipulat-
ing that the members of the commits
sion must be selected from various oc-
equations or professions suggested by
the companies. Many miners were
against the new plan because no recog-
nized representative workmen is includ-
ed in the operators suggestions, un-
less he can be selected under an emf
nent sociologist. Objection is also ex-
pressed to Clause 8, which the strikers
say limits the president Of the United
States to select judge from about four
men. In fact the element against the
latest offer of the operators, pick flaws
in every clause of the new offer. Those
in favor of the plan feel that Mitchell
should accept it and trust to Roosevelt
to make the board or commission as
impartial as it is in his power to do
under the conditions laid down by the
operators. The situation summed up
briefly is still mixed, but the outlook for
an ending of the strike at no very dis
tant date is regarded as hopeful
President Mitchell at noon stated to
the Associated Press representative
that no settlement can be made by the
officers Of the union without the con-
sent of the convention. The situation
at the collieries today remains unchang-
ed with every prospect of remaining so
while the present arbitration plan is
under consideration. The soldiers were
sent out through the outlying territory
as usual today, but they found nothing
to do.
District Presidents Nichols and Fahy
arrived here from Boston at 2:30 p. m.
They had been addressing meetings in
the interests of the miners. Nichols
ldu IlOlHlIlE W say UuL w uCll VhIs l. dHy
was asked what he thought of the new
ttlrn of affairs, he said: '',The strike
cannot be settled without the consent
of the men. We are not dealing in gold
bricks of any kind" do you mean by
that, that the operators arbitration
plan Is not acceptable, he was asked"
Make any deduction you want to-" he
replied.
MORGAN SAYS NOTHING.
Washington, D. G., Oct. 14.-Messrs.
]. P. Morgan and Robert S. Bacon, his
partner, breakfasted at the Arlington
this morning with Secretary Root. 4
10 o'clock, Morgan and Bacon boarded.
their special train and left for New
York When asked by representative
of the Associated Press whether he had
anything to say, Morgan replied: II
think you have enough for one day."
He declined to make any further state
ment. Secretary Root and Bacon also
refused to discuss the situation.
DO NOT LIKE 1T.
Philadelphia, Oct. IA. - Dispatches
from the anthracite coal region indi-
cate that the men on strike do not take
kindly to the arbitration plan proposed
by the presidents Of the coal carrying
railroads. Notwithstanding the appar-
ent hostility to the plan of settlement,
the belief prevails in the coal circles III
this city that after careful reflection
and consideration, the sentiment OF the
strikers who are anxious to return to
work will influence a majority of those
charged with the handling of the strik-
ers to that side Of the question Presi-
dent Baer of the Reading road, whose
name heads the list of signers of the
arbitration plan, started for New York
this morning in his private car to at
tend the regular weekly meeting Of the
corporations he Is in terested In. 1t Is
stated that possibly his car would be
side-tracked at some point outside the
city and that he would join Morgan
and Bacon en- route from Washington
to New York this afternoon.
NO ACTION TAKEN.
New York, Oct. 14.--The > ! opera
tors at their meeting this sternoon
had a conference with a ct ittee OF
the National ManufacturersV VAssocia-
tion and received from them a propo-
sition suggested by the association for
ending the strike. At the conclusion q