Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-29
TROUBLE FOR MINERS.
A Fight Between Two Organizations
in the Hooking Valley.
CHRIS EVANS ISSUES A CIRCULAR
In Which He Gives the Report of the
Operators Committee.
AN AGREEMENT WITH The KNIGHTS
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,
COLUMBUS, May 2S-The indications are
that there may yet he trouble in the Hook
ing Valley mines over the failure to agree
upon stopping the cheeking-off system.
Soon after the Pittsburg conven-
tion the officers of the National
Progressive Union claimed that
the operators of the Hooking Valley
had agreed upon scale, and made ar
. rangements to proceed under promises from
the Knights of Labor. L. d. Doty and E.
S. Martin, who represented the operators at
the Pittsburg meeting, said they had no ar
rangements with the knights of Labor look
ing to reduction of prices for day labor or
increasing the hours of labor in the valley.
Chris Evans, President of District No. 10,
n. P. O., publishes card to-day in which
he embodies the report of Doty and Martin
after they returned from the Pittsburg meet
ing. Il is addressed to the other operators
of the valley. They say they were ap-
pointed committee to meet the *. of L.
officers at Pittsburg, April 16.
ONE STATEMENT.
They arranged with them for a scale of
prices for the year, commencing May l,
1889, of 621% cents for six months and 67H
cents for six months in the Hooking Valley,
together with the special guarantee from
them that they will bring the price of entry,
driving, hauling and all-day labor in COM
peting districts of Ohio up to the standard
of the prices we pay for the same labor, and
also the number of hours worked as a
days work to be equalized between us
and these places, and if this is not done by
them by July 10, 1889, they will bring our
prices for this labor and hours considered a
days work down to the level of these COM
peting places, we on our part agreeing to
stop the checking off done in our Offices of
all duties for labor organizations, and check
of nothing except the check weighman's j
exact pay.
We agree to this freely to answer their
argument that we should not hampsr their
ability 10 carry our arrangement by con- /
tinuing in this manner to furnish means to
rival and
UNFRIENDLY ORGANIZATION.
We urge upon you all the faithful carry
ing out Of this agreement on our part, COM
mencing promptly May l. Your committee
assumed to act for you in the interstate
convention held in Pittsburg April 16, 1889.
after the withdrawal from that con-
vention of the committee appointed |
by the Ohio coal operators, who stated !
their instructions would not permit |
them to treat with a convention whose rep
resentatives of miners were not progressive |
union men and in this convention this ar |
rangement would carry out, notwithstand- |
ing the united opposition of the Pennsyl-
vania miners, delegates, who are strongly |
instructed for uniform price of "a cents for |
Pennsylvania and 65 cents for the Hooking |
Valley for the year.
There may be some trouble over this in |
Pennsylvani,, but the operators were as
sured of all necessary and possible action |
by the delegates to carry out the conclu- |
sions reached by the convention.