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Show T-OPERJITDHS MID MINERS AGREE TO GIVE VIEWS V .. ' ' . ma Governor' Sets Out to Settle Controversy by Giving Each Side Chance to State Demands in Full EXECUTIVE FIRM ' IN FIRST MEETING "Repre1ienUUveirWork-ers "Repre1ienUUveirWork-ers First to Be Summoned Sum-moned for Interview; Held No Private, Quarrel ' HARRIBBURO. Pa.. Aug. IT (By A. P. ) Oovernejr Plnchat of Penn-ayH-anla aaaemblad laadera of each aide In tha anthracite eontrovaray around hia PfTtoa table today and told them bluntly that tha pro-posed pro-posed auapanalon ' ot. mining September Sep-tember 1 could not be allowed. "Tha thing la poaalble." h aaid. ' In declaring tha purpoaa to atop hoftllltlea. "It muat be done." lmpaea!ely tha men gathered 1: round hla council table , Ilatenad to hla worda. Thay were Samuel D. Warrinar. A. B. Jeaiup, W. W. Ingll and W. J. Richard of the operator policy committee, and Philip Murray, -lc prldnt. and C. J. Golden, Rlnaldo Cappelllnl ' and Thome Kennedy, dlfrtrlct pree.denu of , tha tlnltad Mlae Workara, whoa ardera ara out for Hosing down th mlnea Septem-tuw Septem-tuw 1. - There waa aeareely aound to iterrupt th governor aa he read addrcaa. "In my opinion, the wiaeet thing I can do la to deal aeparately with I fch aide." h aaid. "to learn the baiii for demanda aa fully aa I run. I . roqueet you to glv m theea lntervlawa." BOTH BIDES AGREE. - ' -We'll -a-. vary Ud to grant k your requeet." Mr. Warrlner re- (ponded at thb doe. of th. appeal. -Th miner will alao," Mr. Mur-ty Mur-ty aaid." -j'Thank you. gentlemen." Governor Gov-ernor Pint-hot rejoined. -Well adjourn ad-journ then tin 2 p. m, when the miner wilt com to my prlvat office." All of the hlrty-add member of the miners' full scale committee were aaaemblod In the city to counsel with tha anion officer. Scale committee member oald . they had been notified by the official offi-cial group to be on hand. The algniricance of their presence lay in th fact that tha acal eom-mlttee, eom-mlttee, when fully assembled, ha posrer to recall tha work niapen-ion niapen-ion notice which were leued eieturday at Atlantlo City after negntlatlona between the union chiefs and the operators' renrv-eentatlrea renrv-eentatlrea had been broken off. OUTLINES ST A NO. Th. govemOre addreee follows, '""Ath representative of the commonwealth of Penneylvanla. I ' have called yon together for the rurpoea of finding a way to keep the anthracite mlnea In operation, e e e f am acting now aolelv til i rov capacity aa governor of Penneylvanla Penn-eylvanla and with the right and Interests of tha people of Penn-a'ivanla Penn-a'ivanla and f th. other anthracite-using etatee clearly In mind. "Thl eontrovaray between the miner and tha operator of the jmthraclte ftcld ia not a private , JfiiarreL 0 "The general publle I a party to J thla controversy, and Ita rlghta. a well the right of th two other ' parties, must be represented and recognlxed. A shortage of anthracite anthra-cite mean not only a huge lose of profits to tha operators not only a huge loss of waxes of the miner put It means alao loea of health, among mllllona of American fam-IMea. fam-IMea. lose ot comfort, of working Xpewer and of time. wL "Throughout the vast region where It la used, anthracite la the fuel burned In tha homes of the i - people. A strlk or suspension ; uch ' now threatena I a publle calamity, and aa auch every reasonable rea-sonable public mesne must be used to prevent It.- ' PUBLIC WANTS PEACE. j The Intereat of th public mind In th eettlement of thla controversy contro-versy double. In the first place, the publle wanta It ee tiled. It la utterly wrong that tha people : should be called upon again to bear tha enormous and moat op- ' presslvs burden of a shortage of anthracite eoaL . "In the second place, the publle wanta It aettled on terms of even- ' ' banded Juet loe. Tha right of the public to Intervene carries with It the clear responsibility to sea that -' Impartial Jus tic la dons to both sides, tn Ita d eel re to be served, the publlo cannot afford ta accept ear settlement that la baaed upea anything 1 than Jutle. Kur-thermer. Kur-thermer. an unjust settlement - cannot last. Tha people believe, 'and are right In believing, that (he sufferings which coots from ,- one cos I shortage aftsr another ar Intolerable. . -The country Is Just now enter- ,g noon a period of ''proeperlty (sTter a prolonged depression. The cloalng down of tha anthracite mines would tend" to undermine the confidence eaaentlal to a aoa-j aoa-j tinuano of this proapsrily." ' r '. |
