Show PUBLIC SENTIMENT AGAINST THEM THEMI I Public sentiment in in the East must be he intensely hostile to the coal trust kin kings s when the New York Evenin Evening Post Posit a recognized enemy f the working cla class 8 puts itself on record in this wise against the Pennsylvania operators operator Pr President nt Baer and his hisa a associates cannot afford alford to maintain their present attitude Public opinion is overwhelmingly u against a them and no little group of capitalists can defy the Nation There here can be no question among fair- fair minded men that the anthracite owners mine owners have maintained a false position since the very inception of the strike Public opinion is against th the owners not because as the Post contends contend 1 the tIle operators have refused to start the mines by bJ- employing in union non worl workmen men but for the tIle reason that the magnates have haye arrogantly rejected all propositions Av which provide for arbitration and have havo persistently refused to treat with ith the miners as a an organized body hody No clique of tr trust managers however el powerful it maybe may nia be is if strong enough h to df defy public opinion by hy declining de clining dining to oven 0 con consider plans of arbitration Senator Sen Sea ator Manna and other members of the time Civic Federation Feder Feder- Have haye urged u the thc operators tors to meet the miners half way and amI submit tl H Q cpr contentions t of hot both h sides side t to a aboard board of but arbitration but they refused a assorting rtin g they had bad nothing to 10 arbitrate In tak taking ng b this action I the magnates burned their bridges behind them them- They must now fight out the strike to a finish or else submit to an nn abject surrender such as characterized characterized characterized charac charac- the settlement of the great sll strike le of or 1890 The rhe operators have haye certain legal and moral rights So have the miners Then rhen too the tho public is entitled to consideration It has the right to demand that the operators perform their duty of supplying it with coal And in the face of the increased cost of fuel which will result in much discomfort and actual actual actual ac ac- suffering when winter sets in the consumer is unquestionably ri right ht in demanding that the miners and the owners get together and end the strike AH As AHo Asto to o the method the majority of Americans will agree that arbitration is the great reat principle for the Ule settlement settlement settle settle- ment of labor differences The coal magnates are beginning to realize that this is true when the public condemns them for one thin thing and their press organs condemn them for another They will realize some Rome fine morning that the grievances of any man no matter matter matter mat mat- ter how humble he lie may be are arc entitled to tion When they recognize this fact they will be he read ready read to treat trent with the miners and settle ettle the costliest costliest costliest cost cost- liest and and most obstinate of American labor conflicts |