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Show uu DENVER EDITOR WIRESJIESON Requests President to Appoint Commission to Settle Colorado Colo-rado Coal Miners' Strike. Chicago May 21. C fhaffer. editor edi-tor oi the ( hicago Evening Post and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Evening Times, both Denver Den-ver papffTBj today telegraphed to President Presi-dent Wilson a request for the appointment appoint-ment of a commission to settle the Colorado Coal Miners' strike. Mr Shaffer told the president the resources of the Colorado mediators weie apparently exhausted and sug gested as members of the commission, which would be similar to the one appointed ap-pointed by President Roosevelt to Bet-tie Bet-tie the Pennsylvania anthracite strike. Judge Henr Wade Rogers, Benjamin Ide Wheeler. Oscar Strauss Marvin Hughltt. Louis Brandels, James I Lynch, former president of the Inter national Ty pographical Union, or men of that character. Scammon. Kan.. May 2 "Our boys in blue have gone to Mexico to compel com-pel the Mexicans to salute the Stars and Stripes, while out In Colorado they arc tearing the flag out of our hands and shooting men for daring to proclaim what It stands for," John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, declared in au addrebs here today. ' More men hae been killed in Colorado Col-orado In the last two weeks than in Mexico " President White continued: s to John D Rockefeller. Jr., he has lost interest In tne human value. His life. In spite of hi.- riches, is empty emp-ty He has devoted his great brain and intelligence to monev making." I |