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Show OIL KING WILL NOT ) TRY TO AID PRESIDENT ohn D. Rockefeller, Who Controls Property Affected by Colorado ; Miners' Strike, Declines v to Assist Wilson in Ending Labor War. 4AGNATE AND SON T ; REFUSE TO SETTLE Cabinet Does Not Wish I to Call Out Federal E p-oops Until All Other I Means for a Peaceful t i l-Adju3tment Have Been ijExhaiistecL iMy Internal on.-jl r-w ervl. iBTEW V'ORK. April 2". John D. ckcfcllrr, .jr., reject .-, tnc efforts ol MHfesidcnt Wilsou's personal represents lVt!, '0T1Crcs!n,an Martin D Poster, to-!J3' to-!J3' to 'tl' i.l ;i ct'iii i-ctt icmenl oi ;hc Colorado mine strike. As a result JjjBderal troops in all probability will M.Onlr;i;c int'i the :-1 r 1 1; o region today llto end tin .-r :i w;m which is raging. !Mr Rockefeller told ongressman injter, in cMV.-r. timt thp Standard Oil LereMs li.-i ! nothing to mediate or tit rat' bWc are ready to reopen our mines, (d w" lin v lb" n i-n to operate them, Eider is restored," Mr Rockefeller Id. " " 'lh'- onlv ''ii.'L'f'-li'in I - a i! offer bat peaee he restored." Mr, 1 " i . s t . - r .aim- on from Wellington eon- -'ji i-iicc r.f l he 1 r ( i i e u l '- a hi to -T oli u I), lin. Krti'ller as the Bninael Imau'-ia! interest in Colorado Bern! the struggle there, 'i'he senior Rket'eller replied that lie had never 3kcu an aeiive pari in I he management Hhr olorado Fuel & iron company, Bwould lie irlad to have his ton COD W with anyone w hom the president Jpjlit name. wlDster ecs Rockefeller. SV-f- Foster, who is chairman of the foUise committee on iuinen, arrived in iSWvr York early this morning, and went : ''.fto conference at tlie Standard Oil of-''.'.'ilea of-''.'.'ilea with John 1 . Rockefeller, .Ir. Bfiat secrecy was maintained as to the Bfcrenie, which lasted for more than 3 tiro hours At it com-lusion. and .just flB?ore he returned to Washington, Mr. JySfSter f;nio rl"W "uiOe no progress. Nothing has fepen accomplished heir today and I see jft'lioi'e that anything may be accomplished accom-plished in !'), it,m,.-.:i.it" future. I do CX)).-. ' j(. -..ft: Mi ltoekef.'-lh i -igalll ' Ifldsar'0 slor'es are told with regard to tlie PHrorenec One i.s that Mr. I'octer came ffiBh u proposition from the president 'vftl the 'in-rsi loo-- .1 1 iv-uc between the ji frilling !.,; iinre i '. ihe mine own- !.fl, De BUtiinltted in arbitration and that 1 'j'Jl Uot-',c' ;''11"1 'le 'lined to consider it jflft other : lory, which emanates from 5JPaida,',! )1 is that Mr. Foster tti-y asked Mi lioeki-fellcr If he could Ji" an suggestions as to how the strike i lpuM be ..i.dfd witipi.-m recourse to fed - Itf'C?1 ' ""'!'" I'oeke.i'eller'H reply to lfi said to have heen that he had (xM'uggrMi..i ,,i urn- kind to offer JUl" agreed on all sides, however, that jl T. Roi:ki-ill.M- stood pat. Inning hi:-' Wj rTrtiie,- witli Mr Foster he went over r Ml ground wfih-h ho . overr-d in hl fit itlmony before the committee on mine;, rw .. ently and r. n rn rrnrd his stand regard -pl'ii ' organized labor, IP- pointed oni it, jffir Utlon. that ids eon. -em owtia but 12 . . r cfnt of Hie mile".- i:i-oive( In Mi.-4i Mi.-4i , eU Ktrncgle and thai unlll a few ilayh jd I there i.(.n no trouble at any of I mines ow ik-i in ne i .,)oi-.i.i,J plc. ZvttZ fron eonipan-, if VTien Mr foxier pointed out the 1 "f lhc isltnalluii in '.'olorudri Mr Vft ef,'iw'" '" havf admitted lb;it Owens are irrav-, ivlucb, be ;,,id, was , j v P 1 . (Continued on Page Four.) 1 I I ROCKEFELLER i i DEAF TO PLEA OF PRESIDENT Labor War in Colorado Is H; Renewed When Oil Mag-H! Mag-H! nate and Son Refuse to Arbitrate. II (Continued from Pago One.) I all the more reason why the state. If I possible, or the government. If neceFPary. I should fpecdlly restore order so that de-I de-I Btructlon of property might he averted I and laborers who desired might return I 5n safety to work. I 1 It was admitted at the Standard Oil I offices that the president had appealed I to Mr. Rockefeller, Sr., who had referred I him to Rockefeller. Jr., and that the con-I con-I ferenco with Mr. Fob tor hail resulted. I But no statement was jrlvon out relative I to what transpired at the conference. It I ' "was observed In this connection that I tdnce the conference was with a personal I representative of the president, Mr. Wll- son would mako a statement if there -was I any required. I Mr Foster made no attempt to con- I ceal his disappointment over the failure ! of his conference with Mr. Rockefeller or I his concern over the outlook In Colorado. I lie was reticent about his talk with the f Standard Oil representative, hut admitted that he had been unable to Induce Mr. Rockefeller to recede from his orleinul nllllude toward the strike. In the absence ab-sence of any effective plan of mediation. Mr. Foster declared federal troops would have to be dixpatched to Trinidad. After seeing1 Mr Rockefeller. Mr. Foster conferred for Eome time with X C. Os-cood, Os-cood, president of the Victor-American Fuel company of Colorado, who Is at the Vanderbilt hotel. One of the mines of this concern, located at Chandler, In Fremont Fre-mont county, Colo., was captured by tliu fitrlkers today, and dispatches lo Mr. Ospood expressed a fear that the mine would be blown up. Osgood's Position. Mr. Osgood declared tonight that the mine had been captured by striken who were operating under a flag of truce. Mr. Osgood said: They took it after thirty hours' fighting. We had two men killed and two seriously injured and several more are still unaccounted for. I The whole trouble In Colorado is I due lo the refusal of tho mine opera- 4 tors to recognize the union and agree to union contracts. The mine operators, op-erators, with but a couple of trifling exceptions, are standing firmly against these demands. One reason is that our men were not members of the union and had no desire to become be-come members. Tho strike waa not otcd by the men, but ordered by the self-constituted leader.. The second reason for our stand Is that the dr-' dr-' ganization is unworthy of business i confidence It doesn't observe its I contracts wncn n enters into tnem. It stands for Inefficiency in labor and for all sorts of interference in the operation of the mines. Nothing to Arbitrate. Mr. Rockefeller was perfectly right when he took ihe stand which he did-There did-There is nothing to arbitrate. Wo can no more arbitrate this queution of recognizing the union than President Presi-dent Wilson can arbitrate the point of recognizing Hucrta in Mexico. As mutters stand our wages are hlgh-r than most of the unionized states around us and the conditions under which the men work are tho I best possible. They have to be, for I our mines are Isolated and we have 1 to make conditions attractive in ordir to get labor at all. Mr. Osgood paid high tribute to the ( state militia of Colorado, which has been In the field since last October attcmpt-. attcmpt-. ir.g to cope with the situation. "Thev ar a splendid body of men." I he declared, "but their efforts have bnftu hampered and their usefulness thus destroyed." de-stroyed." "The trouble." he r-aid. "was confined to three counties. Las Animas, Huerfano and Fremont, and btretches alone ninety miles of the foothills." He thought a troop of ."500 regular cavalrymen cav-alrymen would be able to restoro order in the district. "Most of the trouble." said Mr. Osgood, "has been caused by Greeks, Bulgarians and Montenegrins, who arc veterans of the recent Balkan war. They staru-d the v.ar In Colorado and when Ihev have hen hiippresscd the trouble will bo over." |