Show INDEPENDENT OPERATOR ASKS THE PRESIDENT TO CALL OUT TROOPS WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Oct 4 John John Markle i Independent coal mine operator submitted submitted submitted submit submit- ted this statement I I have havo listened with deep Interest to the remarks you ou made before us a few minutes after aCter 11 o'clock I this morning and do thoroughly appreciate I at ate the seriousness of ot the situation In the anthracite coal fields of or Pennsylvania As you ou disclaim an any rl right ht or duty to In Intervene intervene In- In In your official capacity but arc aro using your our personal Influence and as you ou admit this matter Is beyond the merits of or the tho Issue between the coal presidents and operators on one side and the miners on the other and nd you ou express the fact tact that the situation has become literally Intolerable and amI as you OU further state tho evil possibilities are so NO far re reaching far so appalling that It seems to me that you are arc not only Justified In sinking but re required required re- re to sink for Cor the time being an any te tenacity to- to a an ts to your respective claims as asto asto asto to the matter at Issue between you In m my Judgment the situation apparently re requires re- re quires that you ou meet upon the common I claim of or the necessities of ot the public With Ith all the earnestness In lu me mc I ask that there be an Immediate rc resumption of ot op- op of the coal mines In some such way which will sill without a days day's unnecessary s sar sary delay meet the crying needs of tho the public I fully indorse the remarks from you and as an American citizen an and a citizen of or the Commonwealth of or Pennsylvania anla I now ask you Oll to perform thc vetted vested vest vett ed cd in you as the President o of these United d States to at once one squelch the anarchistic condition of ot affairs existing in the an- an coal regions by ny the strong arm aTm arm armat i at ot tho the military at t your command A A record of or twenty one murd murders rs a Inn long list of brutal assaults dous hou a and brid bridges es dynamited acts o of violence now taking glace and several c burne 1 down downare downare are arc actual evidences evidence J of or this condition o of l lawlessness existing there Ar Are Arc YOU von ask I kIn k- k In ing us to deal wIth v a ret Bet ct of oC outlaws i iran I ran nn hardly t concave u ot of such uch a thou thought ht Tho Th respectable citizens of there United Uniti State J will wiil Insist upon th the rD In power Giving i to tl the citizens of lnla law and order and tho the right night to work ork I If th they zo so desire Mr President I represent tho the Individual ual uni coal operators and In addition thereto tl we ire represent far better than Mr Ir Mitchell does 8 a 11 majority of the anthracite coal workers Including Including- some 10 men who are nr T how dow working endeavoring against great odds to tn relieve the public of or the tho possibilities of a coal omit In this appeal to In you Mr 11 Mitchells Mitchell's organization ration Is s a small minority of If Ie th the workers In th the anthracite coal and md he j 13 18 holding a largo large majority h by I Intimidation fit coercion and attempts at nl bodily harm If it you nhi oJ desire anthracIte coal to be he placed In Inthe inthe the tho market quickly take tk th the necessary steps at once and put th the tho nil Federal train troops tra 3 In the Held nelll anil ani give Iv to lo thoo tho desiring ir t. I work worl prop proper r By proper protection prot c- c tion lion Is meant ant that the he men II desiring to work shall not only he bo allowed to 10 do so so M. but shall be he protected while doing BO so at it th their lr homes while going to an anal anil I fro from rom their work and amI at the ro they arc are employed and in addition to ihl hi while wIllie the men aro are ab absent ent from th thi their ir homes at work their In their homes must also alao ho bo protected You do ilo I this the citizens of or the l United States Stales whom I represent se seem m to feel that they have a rl right ht to a ask k this of you and aud I will assure you that anthracite anthracite- co coal l will wilt willbo willbo wiltho bo ho rapidly placed In the tte market to th the seriousness n s of or the situation Please remember Mr tr Pr President President- that there Is a large Idle Cla class 8 of men now in inthe inthe the anthracite doing ever every kind kin of ot otI unlawful act acl to prevent those who desire lb work to lo relieve the situation In the an- an I coal coni market Please r that In the fiel held now are onlY S Z X National Guards please c remember that th the total I National Guard of or the State of ot Pennsylvania Pennsyl J vania IF Is only about aboul Mr tr President a 1 condition exists elst not a theory theon In the an at anthracite coal fields between a set t of prote pro- pro te lonal agitators and their workers co I on the one side anarchistic In their acts an and the operators and a majority of tho the thoI 1 I workingmen on th the other who are arc crI CIlI en endeavoring cr- cr I to relieve the seriousness of the tho anthracite coal situation You Mr AIr Pre I I dent I believe can relieve relle the thc situation al ac at once Will you ou do it I |