The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-22
COLORADO CASE
HAsrHEPREsIoEhTsATrEnTlon HAS
Miners Committee Received at Oyster
Bay.-Present Petition for Invest
iaation Of Conditions in
Colorado,

Oyster Bay. N. Y. July 20.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt yesterday received a
committee appointed last Sunday by
the convention of the coal miners and
allied crafts of Wilkesbarre. PennsyI-
vania. The mission of the committee
was to present personally to the Presi-
dent a petition reciting the conditions
in which organized labor has been
placed by the action OF the authori-
ties in Colorado and requesting him to
institute an investigation OF the labor
troubles in that state. with view OF
possibly remedying the condition. The
president of the committee, T. NJ.
Burke of Carbopdale. Henry Herzovits
OF Plymouth. Pennsylvania. and Frank
E. McCafferty OF Victor. Colorado, arc
the men who came to Oyster Bay last
week but were unable on that day to
obtain a personal interview with the
President.
The committee arrived here yester-
day afternoon and met the President at
his Sycamore Hill home at 7:30 this
evening They passed half hour with
President Roosevelt in his library. The
petition, which was the expression or
225 900 men of the union labor organi-
cations of northeastern Pennsylvania.
was laid before the President. He reA
it carefully and then informed the con-
mittee he would be glad to do anything
he properly and legally could do to
ameliorate the condition existing in the
state of Colorado. He indicated that
an investigation of the labor troubles
in that state is now being made by
agents of the Department Of Commerce
and Labor Thus far the situation had
not been such as would warrant inter-
ference by the federal government.
Following the presentation OF the pc
tition, the President talked with his
callers on subjects of mutual interest.
The talk developed the fact that Mr..
Herzovits had fought with Mr.. Roose-
welt in Cuba. After talking of the war
with him, the President gave Mr.. Her
zovits an autograph card bearing the
following inscription:
ITO Comrade Henry Herzovits. with
the good wishes of Theodore Roosevelt,
July 10. 1904"
Mr. Herzovits is proud of the me-
mento of his trip, and will have it
framed with picture Of the President.
The members of the committee ex-
press pleasure with the result of their
visit and unite in saying that their in
terview was perfectly satisfactory to
them and doubtless will be to the
unions which they represent.
In his address to the President. NJ. T.
Burke. the spokesman of the delega-
ton. demanded that the President ap-
point a special commission similar to
that which he named to settle the
strike in the anthracite regions OF
Pennsylvania. He said.
I'VE ask that you appoint special
commission to report to you forthwith
the violations of the constitutional
rights now complained of. And, as Ar
ticle Kill, Section of our constiA
tional amendment defines the supreme
law of the land the laboring people
wish to be guided. protected ard gov
erned by it, and ask you to see to it,
and see that justice is meted out ac-
cording to it,
You may quote me as saying that
the President gave us every assurance
of fair play and honest investigation
that we could expect" said Mr.. Burke.