Show t COAL STRIDE CONFERENCE WITH WITHOUT ouri our ourI I k i r V RESULTS SO FAR AS ANNOUNCED Roosevelt and nd Contending Forces in Consultation Over Matter of Settlement Up to O'clock 1 L A L J J 1 rr T T r T T T T T T T t r t PATRIOTISM INVOKED TO END STRIKE r 1 it tf 4 I do not Invite ite a a. dl dIa of ot your our r respective claims and positions w f I appeal to your our patrio ism m. m to the spirit t that at sinks Inks p personal r onal t f dons SI and mak makes s Individual sacrifices sacrifices fon fors fOI thet gen general good 4 L t DENT DENT bE T ROS ROOSEVELT ROOSEVEL VEL TO COAL MAGNATES COAL MAGNATES AND AND STRIKING Ai MINE MIu MI- MI I u NE HERS NERS 4 It t t l t I 1 I t f u I I f l. l A a JI 1 I IJ 4 BULLETIN I N 1 WAS WASHINGTON N Oct 3 At A At 3 o'clock th e hour set for forthe tho su re-su resumption v tit tf the conference President nt Ba Baer rl with two of of his his feU fellow ow co presidents co-presidents drove up to the he White House Mr Mitchell and his his his' three colleagues appeared ap- ap peered a 3 few minutes later All AU the parties to the conference were at the tho White House by clock o'clock and the meeting was then resumed t At the conference was still in session without result The news that came from the inside to the effect that tho the coal presidents had pr prepared prepared pre pre- pared ared statements which they intended to publish caused a feeling of depression depression depression de de- de- de for tOle it was taken akon to mean that they had resolved to maintain their position and were called upon to explain to tho public their reasons lor or so doing After tho conference had been in progress about long enough for tho the reading of tho the papers Secretary Cortelyou came came out and called in Assistant Assist Assist- 4 ant Secretary Barnes who is an expert stenographer This indic indica indicates es that the proceedings are being taken down At o'clock the conference was as still in session It has just just de- de that President Baer spent some time in a t telephone booth at at the railway station before he returned return d to the tho White House at 3 o'clock and it J is 19 assumed ss ed that he was in consultation respecting bis his statement with f j some come one in ia New York f W WASHINGTON Oct 3 The The second step In the Presidents President's efforts to effect h h. settlement between the anthracite coal coal m magnates and the miners was taken J toda today At 1030 o'clock ten minutes after the hour fixed for the conference conference confer confer- ence every person who had been Invited to participate with the he exception p ton of or President Oliphant of of or the Delaware who ho hl c Da Wilcox and se general counsel t counsel oun 1 of ot the tho road road and nd President Cass Cassatt of or the P Pennsylvania Pennsylvania was present In the th s story second h front room of or the temporary Executive Mansion The President President President dent during the conference was seated In a large Invalid chair his left leU leg extended extended extended ex ex- tended at full length resting upon a cushion The President greeted most cordially cordially cordially cor cor- each of or his guests and when all were cre assembled he stated to them In a brief brIer preliminary way his object In calling them together The President fully f realizing the thc Importance of or the communication that he was to make had prepared a a. carefully worded paper setting forth In detail his position on the pending controversy The President said ald PRESIDENT RESIDENT SPEAKS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC I 1 wish to call your attention to the fact th that t there are arc three parties affected affected af af- af- af by the situation In the anthracite trade trade the the operators the miners and the general public I speak for neither the operators nor the miners but Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the general public The questions at issue which led to the situation affect Immediately immediately immediately Im im- im- im mediately the parties concerned the concerned the operators and the miners b but t the situation situation situation situa situa- tion Itself vitally affects the public As long as th there re seemed to be a reasonable hope that these matters could be adjusted between the parties It did not seem proper roper for me to Intervene In an any wa way SITUATION HELD TO BE IN NATURE OF CATASTROPHE I disclaim any right or dut duty to Intervene In this way upon legal grounds lor or upon an any official relation that I bear to the situation but the urgency y and the terrible nature of the catastrophe Immediately Impending over o a n large portion of or our people In the shape of oC a winter fuel famine Impel me after much anxious thought tp believe belle that m my duty T requires me to use uee whatever Influence Influence ence I personally can bring to effect a a. settlement of or the situation which has become literally Intolerable I BURDEN OF RESPONSIBILITY ON THE PARTIES I wish to emphasize the character of ot the situation and to say that Its gravity fera Is 18 such that I am constrained urgently to In Insist ll t that each one of or you ou realize the heavy hean burden of responsibility upon him We e are arc upon the threshold tine thres I hold of winter with an already existing coal famine the future terrors of or which we can hardly yet et appreciate The fhe evil possibilities are ore so far reaching so appalling that It seems to me that you are ire not only justified In sinking but hut required to sink Ink for the time being an any tenacity as af to your respective e claims If r 1 In the matter at Issue between you ou In my Judgment the situation Impera- Impera k tl lY requires that you ou meet upon the common cornmon plane of or the necessities of oC the t. t public With ith all the earnestness that there re Is h In me I ask that there be he an Immediate Im lm- ins ins- I mediate resumption of or operations In the the ctt Coal o l 1 mines In such fuch way as will without a days day's unnecessary Mr delay m meet t the crying needs of ot the people APPEALS TO PATRIOTISM TO END THE STRUGGLE I do Snot pot Invite a 0 discussion of your our re respective p claims and positions I IP appeal al to your our patriotism to the spirit that sinks perl personal onal considerations and snakes ken Individual 1 sacrifices for the general good I Long LOllI before the hour fixed for the conference a 1 lar large e crowd had assembled outside the White House Hous The first official ca caller ler at it th the White House wa 1 1 C Carroll D. D Wright Commissioner of or Labor IMbor He has made made madean an Investigation of oC Ff the strike situation and the President desired r d to obtain from him what he ed important features tures of ot the condition het between the opera operators tors and 1 miners nen S Secretary Root Hoot called and remained for a a. short time and about 1030 Lm m n. n A General Attorney Knox went to the Presidents President's room MITCHELL mTCHELL FIRST TO ARRIVE FO R CONFERENCE I Mr II Mitchell hell and his party part were first to arrive at the White House BOUM and th they y came a few minutes before the time f fixed d. d They rode to Jackson Place on onan onan an en avenue car and walked up to the White House A A score of or cameras were vern trained on the party art as thc they crossed the street They were e escorted to 3 a room on the first t floor After 11 o'clock President George Baer of oC the Uie Reading E B. B. B Thomas of or the Erie and W. W B. B Truesdale of the Lackawanna drove up in a carriage e. e They n were subjected to several snapshots by ambitious photographers They went to a a. room loom on the first floor separate from that occupied by the labor leaders They were soon poon followed by President Fowler of or the Ontario West Vest ern John Markle of or the firm of G. G B. B Markle Co Independent coal operators nn and David Wilcox vice vice president of or the Delaware Hudson representing President Oliphant of or that road President A. A J. J Ca Cassatt of ot the Pennsylvania rho o had been Invited sent a a. telegram to President Roosevelt explaining his Inability to be present At ten minutes minute's alter after r 11 o'clock the two delegations were escorted upstairs the he and Commissioner labor leaders going first General Attorney Knox Wright right remained with the President GIVEN TIME TO CONSIDER THEIR REPLIES When When the President c concluded the reading of hi his statement he said Mid he did didt didi i ot 2 t expect that either I party would be ready to submit f propositions at this time but he asked them to take talc Into consideration what he had scud said and to re return return re re- turn at 3 clock lIe He ald said he hoped that some proposition might be presented at that time which would furnish the basis of oC ap ar adjustment nL The conference th then n terminated It had la tasted lasted tell s less than fifteen minutes The rIbe representatives representative of or the railroads came camp dow downstairs first and went to their carriages fhe They refused to say anything II cx except that thc they would meet again at 3 o'clock The They would not even en say gay where they were going to stake make their t headquarters When n asked here There tiny they could bo he Been President Baer re- re k 1 to the newspaper per men s BOTH OTH SIDES RETIRE FOR PRIVATE MEETINGS a Gentlemen what hat we want Is Is to so go O some place where where you OU cant can't find us us' and 5 ashen h re wn we win will not be he Interrupted Then they dro drone away t i I President Mitchell and his party followed soon soon after refusing to say eny any- any S Continued oa 61 4 I MINE OPERATORS CONFER WITH ROOSEVELT Continued d from Page Pace 1 thing thing j. j A little later General Attorney General Knox left lef the White House It I was understood that both hoth parties to the conference would during luring the adjournment adjournment adjournment adjourn adjourn- ment ment formulate some proposition some ome proposition ha based ed on what the had said or that each would be he prepared with a reply to present to the President when the con conference was resumed r nt at 3 3 I SECRETARY ROOT HOPEFUL NOW V ICE IC IS BROKEN At 1230 1220 o'clock Secretary Root terminated l nearly ar an hours hour's private conference confer confer- ence erce erce with the President The Secretary was In an optimistic tc mood when he left lef the White Iou House e. e He said he be could not communicate anything further than what had been heen J given en to the press hut but he did not hesitate heitHe to express his Individual opinion to the effect that the prospects were bright ri ht for some satisfactory satis saUs- factory factor outcome mc to the negotiations instituted toda today lie le thought ht that the strong strom point o of the situation was that for Cor the first time the conflicting elements had been brought broucht fair fairly face to face face n In the bull bul ring as he expressed Hand It It- It and the they were now in a position where It I was incumbent upon them to do something something In other words the Ice had been heen broken as between the parties partes and he was hopeful that whon they whon the came together again the wa way would be pa paved for 01 some sort of ot a compromise Secretary l Moody dropped In to see the President about hout noon He stayed however but a R few Cew moments and while he stated that it was pur purely l naval business that brought him to the White House he did not den deny that he had acquainted himself with wih the coal strike situation NO STATEMENTS FOLLOWING P PRIVATE RIV ATE CONFERENCE When Mr Ir Mitchell Michel and District Presidents Dufy Duffy Dufty NIcholls Nichols and Fahy left lef the White Whit Houf House after the conference the they returned to the hotel where the they were closeted during the the afternoon Mr 11 Mitchell declined to say anything about his purpose in regard to a a. a settlement of the strike The representatives of the railroads were driven from the White House to their special train In which the they remained at the Baltimore Ohio station until it I was time to leave for th thA second conference Each representative prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared a statement which h ch they twill present presen to the President when the conference con con- ference reassembles and which they will wi muke public as ns soon as tho the President has seen sen It I. I I They declined to discuss the attitude they will wi take on the ground that It would be discourteous to the President to disclose their Intentions previous to submitting their statement to the President Pr Pl President Baer was as asked if I I there was au any pro prospect of a settlement of oC the strike strike He replied that he could Inot not tell as each cach representative would present a separate statement to the President t |