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AUGUSTUS V. HEELY, Ass't Sec'y. Vol. 72 President Roosevelt's Plea for Peace Published Weekly October 11, 1902 Last week President Roosevelt, as the representative of the Na tion, summoned the Presidents of the anthracite roads and the independent mining companies and the President of the United Mine Workers to confer with him regarding the settlement of the conflict from which the Nation is suffering. The proposal that both parties should confer with him relieved the operators from the necessity of appearing to " recognize" the United Mine Workers when they entered into a conference, and they accepted the President's invitation knowing that they need meet Mr. Mitchell only as a fellowguest of the President. When the conference assembled on Friday morning, President Roosevelt defined his position and that of the public in the following forcible words: There are three parties affected by the situation in the anthracite trade: the operator, the miner, and the general public. The questions at issue which led to the situation affect the operators and the miners; but the situation itself vitally affects the public. As long as there seemed to be a reasonable hope that these matters could be adjusted it did not seem proper to me to intervene in any way. I disclaim any right or duty to intervene in this way upon legal grounds, but the urgency and the terrible nature of the catastrophe impending over a large portion of our people impel me to believe that my duty requires me to use whatever influence I personally can to bring to an end a situation which has become literally intolerable. We are upon the threshold of winter, with an already existing coal famine, the future terrors of which we can hardly yet appreciate. The evil possibilities are so far-reaching, so appalling, that it seems to me that you are not only justified in sinking, but required to sink for the time being, any tenacity as to your respective claims in the matter at issue between you. The situation imperatively requires that you meet upon the common plane of the necessities of the public. I do not invite a discussion of your respective claims and positions. I appeal to your patriotism, to the spirit that sinks personal No. 6 considerations and makes individual sacrifices for the general good. The Reply of the Combatants When the President had finished speaking, Mr. Mitchell, representing the mine workers, expressed his sense of the gravity of the situation, and said: "We are willing to meet the gentlemen representing the coal operators to try to adjust our differences among ourselves. If we cannot adjust them that way, Mr. President, we are willing that you shall name a tribunal who shall determine the issues that have resulted in the strike, and if the gentlemen representing the operators will accept the award or decision of such a tribunal the miners will willingly accept it, even if it is against their claims." This definite proposal of arbitration, not through. a body partly selected by the United Mine Workers, but through one wholly selected by the President of the United States, plainly called for a definite response. Time for deliberation was given by the adjournment of the conference until three o'clock. When it reassembled, President Baer, of the Reading Railway, the first spokesman of the operators, made the following reply to Mr. Mitchell's proposition: The "domestic tranquillity" which every constitution declares is the chief object of government does not exist in the coal regions. There is a terrible reign of lawlessness and crime there. Only the lives and property of the members of the secret, oath-bound order which declared that the locals should "have full power to suspend operations at collieries" until the non-union men joined their order are safe. If the power of Pennsylvania is insufficient to re-establish the reign of law, the Constitution of the United States requires the President, when requested by the Legislature and the Governor, "to suppress domestic violence." You see, there is a lawful way to secure coal for the public. Under these conditions we decline to accept Mr. Mitchell's considerate offer to let our men work on terms he names. He has no right to |