Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-10-06
PRESIDENT
To CONSULT
GOV. STONE

= WASHINGTON. D. c.. octZ
~ 10 oeileved that the next steA 70 he
eaheh by the president in tho tn,,.o
lueslion, VIII be the calling 4 z,r cnv-
lnoi stone OF Pennsylvania x = oor
rt un'ioh on ghe question of 1all;ns an
Sti A'la session of the legislats Ira ~ to tol.a
Tl Ta'ion towards repoennsv the " minas taMe
mere Is also talk of am .me aa,a,, n,-lis
un,eonIs nj congress for the pasa SAGE Of a com
dimes. +.S arbfyf aclon However, han
syl,b bsS the situation through the Penn
mol t,Fania legislature is thought to be
disapye feasible and less likely to meet
the govSproval of courts. The position of
gal precs aernment is that there is no le-
is i;sti6edx;dent by which the president
to Drntect ~ in sending federal troops
or are do ri miners who are at work
pennsvI, 4 sSsesirous of working. Until
federal sania asks for assistance no
trikers eaa asus9ges45f5h s9se s4efph ti,at II Il
heir ru 53r should as individuals present
lent NAnef ievances to the courts, Presi-
There kfni itchell today called Nonsense.
Can AsI are 14.500 miners" He said:
In ArT each miner submit his grievance
viii tirs court. 1t is a subterfuge sprung
tidI%th the idea that they wish to do JUS
thUE.e, and was done purely to deceive
N4e public"
orua Secretary Root and Attorney Gen
IN Iral Knox saw the president this morn
90 lfg. They discussed various plans
%. tir government interference in the
~ brike. and it is understood they ap-
:, Proved Roosevelts reported intention
DO confer with Governor Stone.
wi Secretary Root made this statement:
isg"The president will not call Governor
= Stone into consultation, nor does he
propose to suggest to him his duty in
the premises. The president will not
> ask Pierpont Morgan to confer with
u him. The president considers the
u state of Pennsylvania is the proper
and only authority to handle the
u strike as long as the mi" ars and op-
a orators refuse to settle their differe
= noes between themselves. The presi-
J dent has no intention of calling an
. other conference of the coal opera
II tors. He still has hope of good re
u suits from yesterdays conference. He
has no further move to make, He
," will not send federal troops to Penn
D. sylvania unless Governor Stone asks
- for them.
President Mitchell said today: Il
believe that today we have the sym
pathy of every workman in the coun-
try and believe too that we will have
" the final support of most of them. The
e public has already been very gener-
% Gus with money. We thus far have
d been able to relieve all cases OF abso-
u Iote want and we feel quite confident
:" OF being able to continue the strike
II through the winter, but we shall re-
y gret very much to have to do So Not
IL only on our own account but on ac
= count of the great public Throughout
the entire east many are suffering
greatly. Indeed, if only the interests
of the miners and operators were con-
e. cerned, the strike would be of com
J., paratively little importance. | regret
lie very much to say that the coal oper
N ators at the conference not only de-
ID clined every proposition made by us,
" and not only refused to carry out the
is presidents wish that they appoint a
t. committee to look into the justice of
le the act, and both sides abide by its
e. decision, which we would gladly have
ut done and proposed to do, but they
a made many false statements. One
was that thenty murders had been
committed by the strikers since the be-
ginning of the strike in front of the
president We challenged the state
ut ment and | volunteered there and
~ then to tender my resignation if it
'u could be proven that there had been
''e twenty deaths from violence of any
iG kind since the beginning of the strike.
~ The proposition was not accepted
VI The truth is there have been just sew
W en- deaths. and three of these were
III, caused by the coal and iron mine OPP
vi vi orators police
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