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Show THE COAL CONFERENCE FAILS. With the best Intentions In the world and lu compliance with n good deal of pressure from the people. President Hoosevelt sought to effect a settlement of the great coal strike Wllh that view he Invited tho representative of the miners and the representatives of the mine owners nnd the railway officials, offi-cials, to meet with him nnd lonfer with n view of reaching a lnls for the adjustment ad-justment of differences The) nil responded re-sponded to the Invitation, nnd appealed. ap-pealed. President Mitchell for the miners, offered to submit the differences Involved to the President, or tho arbitrators arbi-trators whom he should appoint, in fact, he would submit lhe matter to any arbitration board of character und fairness. fair-ness. Hut the mine and rallwi) owners laid down 1111 ultimatum, nothing but the leldingof the miners to their terms would do, but the) promised to consider Individual grievances nfter the miners had relumed to work They slood on this proposition It Is apparent therefore, there-fore, that the) did not respond to the President's Invitation In the spirit In which he sent It, but that they went to the confeienre determined not to confer Tint being the case, failure was Inevitable the operators require lhe miners to give up the ver) thing they have been holding out for and 10 put themselves In the hnnds of their cinp!o)crs, with nothing to depend upon save lhe employers' good will for the bettering of their condition And this In tho face of the fact that not the leist good will his been shown by the operators from the beginning The next move should tic h) the Mate of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, the Legislature ought to lie called together and suc'i laws passed us will solve the situation peremptorily A receiver should be authorized to manage man-age the mines and inllwn)s and give the public the service that this great public utility Is naturally designel for (Sov enter Slone should loso no more time |