New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-04
OFFERS FROM BOTH SIDES
OPERATORS ABSOLUTELY REFUSE To
TREAT WITH MITCHELL.

p
enoe between the President and Representatives
| of the operators and the miners came TO an end
/ az the temporary White House. facing Iafav-
cite square al 80 O'Clock this afternoon. with
/ a failure 70 reach an agreement Apparently
the rock on which the conference split was rec
| ogntion OF the miners union. The President
| had urged the contending parties 10 cease
strife IN the interests og the public welfare. the
| miners through the president Of their union.
| had expressed "A willingness 10 submit differ
| ences 20 arbitration 10y a tribunal 20 be named
10y the President and 20 enter into an agree
| ment 70 abide 10y terms fixed by the arbitrators
for a period - from one 20 five years auu the
employers through the presidents of the rail-
| road and coal companies and "a leading ipde-
pendent mine operator had squarely refused ar
| bitration had denounced the miners labor or
| Eanization as a iaWless and anarchistic body
| With which they could and would have no deal
| ings, had demanded federal troops 20 insure
| complete protection 10 workers and their fam
! ilies in the mining region and court proceed
| ings against the miners union. and had offered
! II the men returned 20 work % submit griev-
ances al individual coliieries tp the decision 81
the judges of the Court O! Common Pleas for
the district of Pennsylvania in which the col
liery was located. There the matter closed
Tonight both the miners and IN, operators are
their several localities. each saying at a late
hour that the struggle viii continue
A MEMORABLE OCCASION.
il was a remarkable chapter in the economic
history OF The country that was written TO-DAY
For the first time the President q the republic
had intervened directly between the great forces
Of capital and labor I'm an effort 10 avert what
he himself regarded as a great national calami-
zfll VA hrin he r,rfr Is in
the great controversy face 20 face with the
whole country eagerly intent and watchful of
their doings
Technically, the issues between the tvo great
forces stani they did before the President
summoned the representatives, OF the contend
ing forces 20 the national capital. and. forget
ting his own acute suffering h.sought them. FOR
love OF the great country wherein they dwelt and
out Of pity for the countless thrcnes of suffer
ing poor 10 adjust their differences and work
together IN peace FOR the common veal What.
II anything. viii result from the conference IS /
fof the indefinite future. To-day the views of
thr oontenders in the great Industrial struggle
were so extreme and wide apart that there was
no middle ground possible. and the confer
enoe came 10 an end without any agreement for
its continuation. The conference had lasted six /
hours. including a recess Of three hours he- /
tween the morning and afternoon sessions |
taken to enable the miners and operators To-
prepare written responses 20 the Presidents ap-
peal
SAY THEY WILL FIGHT IT OFT.
The immediate parties TO the strike say they |
Will continue heretofore What course the 1
administration will take next no one il pre-
pared to say one Of the operators. as ne left /
the White House with closely set Jaw. was
asked regarding this and replied.
IF any one knows what the President will do 1
next that is more than know"
Fourteen men. including the President were 1
in the second story front room al the temporary /
White House at the momentous conference /
President Mitchell and three Of his district lead
represented the miners and five railroad |
men and one independent mine operator the ON
poyers. With the President were Attorney
General Knox Carroll D Wright COMMISSIONS
OF Labor and Secretary Cortelyou All the
Cabinet members save the Attorney General
kept aloof during the conference. but betveep
the two meetings and afterward several of the
Presidents advisers called 10 talk over the
set out in ample statements made by each side
and given 10 the press by themselves and also
officially a, the White House
During the conference the Presi5er, ,,....
70 both sides with the greatest eagernees
after its adjournment his pbvsicta..
Surgeon General RiXey and Or. Lung tpstt.d |
On making an examination Of his wound -, |
redressing IL. Apparently no M effects had -
sul,Ad from the excitement Of the day and 80.
= later call at s o'clock DR.. Lung annonn,,,
that the Presidents condition was satisfacto,,
BEGINNING THE CONFERENCE
To-dav's conference began a few minutes ,,..-
II o'clock President Mitchell and the -
district presidents of the Miners Union ~
the hrst to appear the temporary yyh,, |
House in Lafayette Square. where a large cr,,,,, |
had assembled 10 witness the coming ~ r. |
chief participants in the coal strike They b,5 |
q rived here about ! o'clock In the n,orrin,,
and had put Up at small hotel near the Cant
,ol They went In a streetcar from the bo,,
a Jackson Place and Pennsylvania-ave -
u-.ILed the half block 10 where the Prasi5aD,
,..s awaiting them. Their arrival was a far,
r,,r,,tes IN advance Of the hour named for ,bs
.or,srenoe-li O'Clock. The operators resc,ad
~ ,emnorary White House al ll:Ol IN csr-
r,agss which they had taken on leaving the
nr,Iate cars at the railroad yard where they
speut last night
Each marty was escorted 10 separate rooms m
-. e., noor and soon after they were usbsraA
..'.,atrs - the miners representatives RoinS
- ,ront room on the second story ,ba,.
- i- ,he President awaiting them II is M !
.1unH 4N =, which ne has transacted all business |
,tDce he returned non ms western trip. He /
IN IN an a roller chair and had on dressing
.ua,faUed second