Evening star., 1923-08-27
Demands Representatives of
Both Adjust Differences Be-
fore Contract Expires in
Interest of Public.
SAYS EACH GROUP MUST
MAKE CONCESSION NOW
Pennsylvania Official Firm and
Impartial in Opening Confer
ence-Holds Public Need Para
mount-To Meet Union Officials
Today and Operators Tomorrow.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. August 27.-Gov
Pinchot of Pennsylvania assembled
leaders of each side in the anthracite
controversy around his office table to-
day and told them bluntly that the
proposed suspension of mining Sep
tember l could not be allowed.
Both Groups Agree.
There was scarcely a sound to in
terrupt the governor as he read his
address
In my opinion. the wisest thing l
can do is to deal separately with
each side" he said, ito learn the basis
for demands as fully as 1 can. l re-
quest you give me these interviews"
Wen be very glad to grant your
request" Mr.. Warmer responded at
the close of the appeal.
The miners will also" Mr.. Muir
ray said
Thank you, gentlemen" Gov. Pin
chot rejoined. Wen adjourn then
10 pm, when the miners will come
to my private office"
All of the thirty-eight members of
the miners full-scale committee We're
assembled in the city to counsel with
the union officers Scale committee
members said that they had been
notified by the official group to be
on hand. The significance of their
presence lay in the fact that the
scale committee, when fully assem-
btad, has power to recall the work
suspen nsion notices which were issued
Saturday at Atlantic City after ne
gotiations between the union chiefs
and the operators representatives
had been broken off.
Declaring the crisis now has oeen
reached, he asserted, I'VE must do
in this eleventh hour what should
have been done before"
TT can be done and must be DONE
he said. There is still time. Let
us use this time in an effective
spirit of common counsel, so that
due regard to the rights of all and
with due credit and honor to all con-
cerned."
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers. all participants in the At
Iantic City negotiations were here
today. Phillip Murray. vice presi-
Lewis absence, with the three dis
trict presidents. The four members
of the operators policy committee
were present.
To Meet Both Groups.
plan or basis on which he hopes to
bring about a settlement further than
to request consultations with each
side separately after the close of the
first meeting. He suggested he meet
the miners this afternoon and oper-
ators tomorrow morning, and he de-
clared his purpose of treating the
conferences with each side "as wholly
confidential"
The governors address follows:
.AS the representative of the COM
monwealth of Pennsylvania, / have
called you together for the purpose
of finding a way to keep the anthra-
cite mines in operation. / delayed
asking you to meet here after the
negotiations at Atlantic City had
failed until ! was assured that to do
so would not run counter to the
wishes of the federal authorities. I
as Governor of Pennsylvania and
with the rights and interests of the
people of Pennsylvania and of the
other anthra cite using states clearly
in mind.
Not Private Quarrel.
."This controversy between the min
ers and the operators of the anthra-
cite field is not a private quarrel.
THE general public is a party to this
controversy, and it's rights, as well as
the rights of the two other parties,
must be represented and recognized.
A shortage of anthracite means not
only a huge loss of profits to the opera
torS-not only a huge loss of wages to
the miners-but 1T means also loss of
health among millions of American
families, loss of comfort, of working
power and of time.
.Throughout the vast region where
IT. is used anthracite is the fuel burned
In the homes of the people: A strike
or suspension such as now threatens is
a public calamity, and as such every
reasonable public means must be used
to prevent.
"The interest of the public in the
settlement of this controversy is dou-
bic. In the first place the public wants
il settled. 1t Is utterly wrong that the
people should be called upon again to
bear the enormous and most oppressive
burden of shortage of anthracite coal.
Wants Only Justice.
I'm the second place. the public wants
1t settled on terms of even-handed JUS
tice. The right of the public to inter-
vene carries with it the clear respon-
sibility to see that impartial justice is
done to both sides. In its desire to be
served the public cannot afford to ac-
cept any settlement that is based upon
anything less than justice. Further
more, an unjust settlement cannot last.
The people believe, and are right in
believing, that the sufferings which
come from one coal shortage after an
other are intolerable.
1.-THE commonwealth of Pennsyl-
wanna has responsibility to other
anthracite using states and to Canada
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