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Show The Only Available Plan. IT WAS a one-sided response to the president's entreaty for arbitration of the great' strike. The coal road presidents refused to recognize any rights of the miners as an organized body, and disdainfully put arbitration out of the question. On the other hand, the president of the miners' union was responsive to the appeal of the president, pres-ident, and agreed to submit to any agreement to end the conflict and resume re-sume work, which a board appointed by the president shojI stipulate. Thus the matter stands, as it did before the president called the meeting. Thus it will stand until changed by the federal fed-eral authority of the government. Among all the propositions submitted, none receives so much favor as the nna mnct -iVi -irwt iriTi n a in Vm nmcwlont seizure of the mines and their ope- j ration through a receiver. The ex-pediecny ex-pediecny and lawfulness of this plan is pointed out by the best legal lights in the country, supported by court decisions. A few of them we give here: "When one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good to the extent of the interest in-terest he has thus created." United States Supreme court. . "It has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare de-clare what shall be a reasonable compensation com-pensation under such circumstances" (permanent public service). United States Supreme court. "It there are no statutory regulations on the subject, the courts must determine deter-mine what is reasonable." United States Supreme court. "Where others than the titular owners own-ers of a property have rights in it and in the working of it, and the titular owners, from whatever cause, cannot work the property, then a court of equity, without proof of any blameworthy blame-worthy conduct on the part of the titular titu-lar owners of the property, may take possession, through a receiver, simply on the ground that third persons, have a right to have it worked for their benefit." ben-efit." Heman W. Chaplin. "A court of equity undoubtedly w-ould appoint a receiver or receivers to take the whole business now in the hands of the anthracite coal combine, and to run it in their place." Heman W. Chaplin. |