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Coal Conference Breaks Up Without Agreement
Washington coal conference adjourned at 5 pm with no settlement. Mitchell offered to accept a tribunal, but operators refused. Presidents and miners clashed over protection, violence in the anthracite region, and the call for federal troops as winter fuel supplies loom.
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Washington
Mitchell
Pennsylvania
United States
Court of Common Pleas
White House
George F. Baer
Reading Railway
W. H. Truesdale
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
E. B. Thomas
Erie Railroad Company
Thomas P. Fowler
New York, Ontario & Western Pailway
David Wilcox
Delaware & Hudson Company
John Markle
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Thomas D. Nicholls
Thomas Puffy
John Fahy
Knox
Cortelyou
Carroll D. Wright
Baer
Mr. Baer
United Mine Workers
Illinois