New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-08-27

closing the mines.
"Thc public has not forgotten, and
! shall not forget the rights and In
tercsts of the miners and the operat-
ors. Each side represents great and
vital service to the public. Moreover
each side stands in the presence of a
great and vitality important duty TO the
people at large.
THE public does not and cannot see
with your eyes and appreciate with
your experience the background and
| the details of the present controversy.
| But it knows the essential facts. / eX-
press truth none will deny when
say that the anthracite using people of
the United States are losing patience
and ] ask you to consider that fact
with care.
For Public Interest
THE public interest demands that
! this controversy shall be settled and
that suspension of mining shall be
avoided. The thing is possible-and it
must be done.
Settlement means that neither side
can get everything it would like to
have. Few people ever do in the
world we live in. But the settlement
of this dispute is absolutely necessary
for the public safety and welfare. The
public needs and must have coal and
am entirely confident that the public
Is going to have 1t. 1t Is my duty to
insure to the public by every lawful
means at my command, the necessary
supply of coal
Il recognize the right of mine work
ers to organize for their own protec-
ton and to fair and decent conditions
of living. | am fully aware that the
strike is right which should not be
arbitrarily abridged or denied. The
exercise of this right, however, should
be made unnecessary by the use of or
derby and reasonable, methods of ad-
Justment.
Il recognize the right of mine OPP
orators to- a Just return on their in
vestment and their managerial ability.
las the representative of this COM
nonwealth I am here to tell you that !
these rights are to be recognized and |
protected and that the public rights
are to be recognized and protected |
also,
Quotes Roosevelt Program.
1.-THE Roosevelt platform of 1912
asserted that the public good comes
first. Do not forget that the public
cannot look with indifference upon
unnecessary industrial conflict over
private rights while it suffers in
he alth comfort and the very essen
tias of life. b.
we are at the threshold of winter
to the public, yours as miners and OPP
orators, mine as executive of the only
anthracite producing state,
1.-THE nth hour Is upon us--and
The crisis has now been reached. We
must do in this 18th hour what
should have been done before. It can
be done and must he done. There is
still time. Let us use this time in an
spirit of common counsel 70
that this common danger may pass.
with due regard TO the rights of all,
and with due credit and honor to all
After the close of the
present session. I desire TO consult
with each side separately at as great )
length as the time available will per-
NIT.
Meets Miners First.
II will meet first with the miners .
because they are, to use legal
phrase the plaintiffs in this case; and
suggest two to five o'clock this af-
ernoou as the time. Tomorrow morn
ng from to II ! will meet the op-
srators for similar conference
other conferences may he arranged
alter.
IT propose to treat those conferences
With each side as wholly confidential
What is said to me by one side will
lot be revealed to the other now or
alter, unless by mutual agreement. I
SIX also and ] desire especially to inn
'ress upon you the necessity that each
ide shall refrain until the end of the
difference from making public it's po-
ition on any issue here involved, thus
ffording the largest practicable OPP
ortunity for discussion and agree
nent. The urgency of the situation
ogether with the shortness of time
for agreement justi1es this
euueSt"