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Show U. S. TROOPS ( FOR COLORADO i New York, April 27. John D. Rockefeller. Rock-efeller. It-, rejected efforts of fresl j dent Wilson's personal representative, Congressman Martin D Foster, today; to effect a peaceful settlement of the Colorado mine strike As a result 1 federal troops in all probability will 1 be ordered into the strike region to-I to-I day to end the civil war which is rag- ing. Mr Rockefeller told Congressman Foster, in effect tha: the Standard Oil interests have nothing to mediate or arbitrate. "We are ready to reopen our mines, i I and we have the men to operate them If order Is restored' Mr. Rockefeller I said, "The only suggestion I can offer : Is that iace be rettoreJ." Mr Foster came on from Washing ton in consequence of the president's peal to John D. Rockefeller as the dominant financial Interest in Colora do to end the stnggle there The I i senior Rockefeller replied that be had never taken an acti'e part in the man-, aRement of the Cobrado Fuel & Iron I company but would be slad to have bis son confer with anyone whom the i president might name Mr Foster, who Is chairman of the' house committee on mines arrived in i New York early this morning, and I wpnt into conference at the Standard ! Oil offices with John D. Rockefeller, 1 (.lr Great secrecy vas maintained as I to the conference, which lasted fr.r l more than two hours. At Its conclusion, conclu-sion, and Just before he returned to Washington, Mr. Foster said-1 said-1 "We made no progress Xothinq has been accomplished here today and 1 ; see no hope that anything may be accomplished ac-complished In the Immediate future I do not expect to see Mr. Rockefeller again.-' Tw o stories are told with regard to j ! the conference One Is that Mr. For,-, ter came with a proposition from the j president that the questions at issue between the striking coal miners and the mine owners be submitted to arbitration ar-bitration and that Mr Rockefeller de-j ( lined to consider IL The other story which emanates from Standard Oil circles, is that Mr Foster merely ask ! ed Mr. Rockefeller if he could offer I nny suggestions as to how the strike could be ended without recourse to 'federal troops Mr. Rockefellers re ' ply to this Is said to have been thai be bad no suggestions of auv kind to offer It Is agreed on all sides however, that Mr Rockefeller stood pat. During Dur-ing his conference with Mr Foster he went over the ground which he covered cov-ered In his testimony before the committee com-mittee on mines recently and reaffirmed reaf-firmed his stand regarding organized labor He pointed out. In addition, that his concern owns but 13 per 1 cent of the mines involved Irj the present struggle and that until a few-days few-days ago there had been no trouble at any of thp mines owned by the I Colorado Fuel & Iron company. When Mr Foster pointed out the gravity of the situation in Colorado, Mr Rockefeller U said to have admitted ad-mitted that conditions are grave which, he said, whs all the more ren son why the state, If possible, or the government. If necessary. should speedilv restore order so that destruction destruc-tion of property might be averted and laborers who desired might return re-turn In safety to work. It was admitted at the Standard Oil offices that the president had appealed ap-pealed to Mr Rockefeller. Sr., who had referred him to Rockefeller, Jr.. and that the conference with Mr. Foster had resulted. Rut no state ment was given out relative to what J transpired at the conference It was observed In this connection that since ! the conference was with a personal representative of the president Mr I Wilson would makp a statement If there was any required Mr. Foster made no attempt to con ceal his disappointment over the failure fail-ure of his conference with Mr. Rock ! efeller or his concern over the out-1 look In Colorado He was reticent about his talk with the Standard Oil representative but admitted that he had been unable to induce Mr Rockefeller Rocke-feller to recede from his original at-titudp at-titudp toward the strike In the absence ab-sence of any effective plan of media tlon Mr Foster declared federal troops would have to be dispatched to Trinidad. After seeing Mr. Rockefeller. Mr Foster conferred for some time with J. C. Osgood, president of the Victor-American Victor-American Fuel company of Colorado, who is at the Vanderbilt hotel. One of the mines of this concern, located at Chandler, In Fremont countv, Colo was captured by the strikers today, i and dispatches ' to Mr Osgood ex pressed a fear that the mine would be blown up. Osgood's Position. Mr. Osgood declared tonight that the mine had been captured by strik-j ers who were operating under a flag , ' of truce Mr. Osgood said "They took it after thirty hours' I fighting. We had two men killed and two seriously injured and several ! more are still unaccounted for "The whole trouble In Colorado is due to the refusal of the mine operators opera-tors to recognize the union and agree to union contracts The mine oper ators, with but a couple of trifling exceptions, are standing firmly against these demands One reason is tha.t our men were not members of the union and had no desire to become be-come members. The strike was not voted by the men. hut ordered by the self-constituted leaders The second reason for our stand Is that the or ganizatlon is unworthy of business confidence. It doesn't observe lis contracts when it enters into them It stands for inefficiency in labor and for all sorts of interference in the operation of the mines "Mr. Rockefeller was perfectly right when he took the stand which he did. There is nothing to arbitrate We can no more arbitrate this ques tion of recognizing the union than President Wilson can arbitrate ihe point of recognizing Huerta in Mexico. Mex-ico. As matters stand, our wages are higher than most of the unionized states around us and the conditions under which the men work aro the best possible. They have to be, for our mines are isolated and we hae to make conditions attractive In order to get labor at all." Mr Osgood paid high tribute to the state militia of Colorado, which has been in the field since last October Octo-ber attempting to cope with the situa tlon. "They are a splendid body ol men," atHM be declared, "but their effoits have been hampered and their usefulness thus destroyed. " |