The Labor enquirer., 1884-11-08
The Conference Reaches 4 Con
clusion and Some Of the N Mtnes
Resume.
The Railroad Companies Hbld Out
Against the Men and the
Public.

VIC paA AtciPators WHICH we're eHFItalneQ
on Saturday evening were fulfllkd. The
principal aim of the conference was to
perfect an arrangement by whlcAall diff.
ficnlties between the miners aid the
managers could be,settled without Strikes
lin the future. The plan was to fotm a
mutual board of coneiliation, composed
of an equal number of miners and oper-
ators.
On Monday this was effected, and the
following gentlemen were chosen ass the
board of conciliation:
For. the operators, A. 6. Langf ford, ,sof
the Marshal mine Colonel C. W, Fishet
of the Denver & New Orleans; D. 81
Wood, of the Jackson mine; L. NJ.
Fouts, Superintendent of the Denver,
Utah 4 Pacific railway, and James Pail
ett, Of the Garfield mine,
For the miners, John Lewis, of Erie
Felix Hughes. of Louisville; Benjamin
Prince, of FrancevIlle; Peter Adamson,
of Coal Greek, and David Morris, of
yWalsenburg. VI @
Articles of agreement were presented
sto all the operators and as all signed
them, the men in their employ we're
ordered by Secretary John 1. Lewis tA
return to work on Tuesday, if possiblel
The articles of agreement require the|
abolition of the g iron-clad,n the black
list" and the truck " system, and
pledged each signer to abide by the de-
cision of the board in matters relating
to wages and other local grievances.
Objections are raised in many localities
to the number of pounds of coal taken
for ton 1.-The character of screens used,
and other matters which tend to cut
down the earnings of the miners. AL
these things will be considered as rapid
ly as possible by the board, and, as the
miners have an equal representation on
the board, tits fairtopresume that every
thing will be settled to the satisfaction
of the diggers.
The companies which have stood out of
this mutual arrangement are the Union
Pacific the Atchlsoll, Topeka and Santa
Fe, and the Colorado Coal and Iron COM
pany. 1t is generally believed that the
Iormer company will join the combina-
lion at an early day, as it has already
PLACED itself on record as being in favor
of that way of settling differences with
employees. The general superintendent
of coal mines on the Union Pacific, Mr..
D o. Clark, was in the city last week,
and attended the conference meetings of
two days, but he was unable to pledge
his support to the movement until he
had conferred with the authorities at
Omaha, under whose control he.is but
it appears to be the general impression
that as soon as the head officials of the
road fully understand the IS: :tuation and
are made acquainted with the object of
the board of conciliation; the Union
Pacific will be a party to it.
1t is hardly to be hoped that the Coal
and Iron Company and the Santa Fe will
BE so ready to join the mutual arrange
ment, but they will not. be long in dis
covering that their arbitrary and inde-
pendent attitude Will prove a losing
game. All the mines of the Coal and
Iron Company are at present at stand
still, and it is not likely that the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad managers, who
are the controllers of the coal company,
will permit the business of the road toi
suffer or allow themselves to be put to
the heavy expense of shipping coal from
abroad to run the road, simply to pro-
long the fight forced upon them by few
tyrannical and Lullhesded mine man.
ayers and bosses.
The Santa Fe may not be considered
in such tight box as is the Rio Grande,
because that company has some small
mines in Kansas, which are not effected
by this present trouble. The Santa Fe
mines in this state are suspended, and
on Tuesday information was received by
Secretary Lewis to the effect that the
large mine Of this company at Blossburg,
New Mexico, had been struck. This
places the Santa Fe in an unsafe posi-
tion, and as it is hardly possible that
their properties will resume work until
they agree to the compromise offered by
the board of conciliation, it is more than
likely that the managers of the road
will come to terms with the board at an
early dag.
As the situation now is, all the mines
in the oithern part of the state are at
work, excepting those belonging to the
Union Pacific Company, and, as stated
aboye, it may only be few days until
that company joins hands with the peace
makers. The Denver and New Orleans
mine, at Franceville, is also at work,
making the total number of men who
have resumed since the formation of the
board nearly 1900 in all.
BLossBURG IN LINE. ~.
q. R. Buchanan. E..;.
BLossBURe, N. NJ, Nov. oil wish to
inform you that we stopped work here on
November 2. We received the telegraph
dispatch on, October 29, but We did not