The operators, however, absolutely refused to acquiesce in the appointment of any representative of labor, and also announced that they would refuse to accept a sixth man on the Commission; although they spoke much less decidedly on this point.

The labor men left everything in my hands.
The final conferences with the representatives of the operators took place in my rooms on the evening of October 15.

Hour after hour went by while I endeavored to make the operators through their representatives see that the country would not tolerate their insisting upon such conditions; but in vain.

The two representatives of the operators were Robert Bacon and George W.Perkins.They were entirely reasonable.

But the operators themselves were entirely unreasonable.