Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
The President of the United Miners
FavOrs the Ohio Tin Plate Can
didate for Governor,
BUT THE MINERS ARE NEUTRAL.
The Commissioner of Labor in Ohio Sug-
gested for the Presidency Of
the Federation.
PHILLTPSBURG MINERS STILL SOLID.
General Drift CT Industrial Matters in and Around
RttSburg.

President J. B. Rae. of the United Mine
! Workers of America, who has been address,
ing mass meetings of miners in this district,
spent Yesterday in the city resting. He has
already attended meetings at Venetia, Shire
Oaks and West Elizabeth, and will address
the miners of Banksville this evening.
President John Costello, of District 5, will
accompany him. Mr.. Rae was found at
Hotel Boyer yesterday afternoon, rejecting
over the reported rebellion of the miners in
the bituminous district.
81 wish you would say for me" said he,
''that that report is false from beginning to
end. 1t is said the officers of our organiza-
tion have visited that district for the pur-
pose of keeping the miners from going into
the X. of L. l think the readers of The
DISPATCH are pretty well acquainted with
the object of our visit to the Clearfeld dis
trict There are certain Inequalities there
and a few violations on the part OF the
operators, which we went to straighten out.
AS for the miners there focking to the K.
of L., the wish of some one in that district
is father to the thought We have few
people out there who may be dissatisfied.
W
am sure the rank and file of our organiza-
ton in that district have no thought of
such break.
NO FEAR OF A REVOLT.
"The miners of Clearheld, Center, Cam
bria, Jefferson, Somerset, Clarion. Blair and
Huntingdon counties are not IN the demoral-
lied and disorganized condition that they
have been pictured, and we have no fear OF
them leaving us. Weare just getting the or
ganization there in shape where we expect
to be able to establish the dead wood scale,
and it would not be very likely that they
would desert us after that has been secured.
"Well, Mr.. Rae, do you consider the Fede-
ration of Labor has accomplished every
thing that was expected of it when 1T was
formed?" was asked.
NO; l can hardly say 1 do More than
that, the present policy of showing any par
ticular trade to the front on any issue and
making it the butt of all the opposltlon tnat
capital is able to muster together will never
bring success to the Federation"
as it to be understood then, that the
miners will not submit again to being desig-
mated by the Federation as the trade to
make a fight for eight hours?"
well, l will not answer that directly, but
1 believe the miners will adopt q wiser
policy in the future. The miners will GER
tainly not submit again to such premature
announcement of their intentions. The
operators will not have such long notice
in advance Of the next movement, nor SO
much time in which to prepare for us"
as there any truth in the statement that
you are a candidate for the Presidency of
the American Federation of Labor"
None whatever. have no aspiration in
that line and will not be candidate. If l
hae the privilege of nominating the next
President of the Federation I would
missioner of Labor in Ohio. He could
do more to bring the great labor
organizations of the country together, and
thus do more to beneht labor, than any
I ln will lGA
the next President of the Federation"
"WelI, Mr.. Rae, the friends of Mr. Comp
ers will say after reading this statement
that you are an enemy of his"
RAE DECLARES FOR M'BRIDE.
There is no personal matter in this what
ever and hope no one will think there is.
simply mean that believe Mr.. Mcbride is
the best man for the position. am looking
to the future good of labor when say what
I do. do not know that Mcbride would ac-
cept the office. 1t only pays $1,000 year at
present, but it certainly would pay the
trades unions of the country to make it
worthy ofhis acceptance by raising the sal
"Have you any objections Mr. Rae, to give
your opinion on the political contest in
Ohio?"
"As an individual am always free to ex-
press an opinion, and especially on a matter
SO important to miners"
ernor?''
Mckinley. The questions at issue will be
pretty well understood before the campaign
is over. The people of Ohio cannot afford to
do otherwise than elect Mckinley"
"What will be the attitude of the miners
in the contest?'
ave will be strictly neutral Our men,
bership is very large in Ohio, made
Der of Republicans and Democrats,
with n goodly number of Peoples
party men. You can see, therefore, how in
judicious it would be for MS to be other than
neutral. No officer, feel sure, will either
spend his time or use his position in helping
either party. The miners are very Jealous
on matters of this kind and would resent
any attempt to misuse office or power
"What truth is there of n deal between W.
L. Lewis, John p Jones and John Nugent
with the Republicans"
NO KNOWLEDGE OF ANY DEAL
al have no knowledge of it whatever.
Both President Jones and Vice President
Nugent have made an emphatic denial,
Jones is quite humorist and if he met
someone unusually curious to know what he
was going to do as a Republican he may
have told him a very sensational story But
President Jones is a very shrewd younp
man. of much ability and promise No one,
am sure would be more likely to See that
IT would be great mistake to bring the
office of the commissioner of labor into the
canvass. There is no man in Ohio so popular
with the miners as John Mcbride / am sure
that Presid, mt Jones win actpruden tally.
II he should think it necessary to tender his
services to the Republican party in Ohio, he
will do SO in harmony with the rules OF our
organization"
What did you mean then when you said
that the people of Ohio could not do other |
than elect Mckinley?
1.-The issue before our peoDleare national
The tariff in fact is the issue protective |
tariff ma kes higher wages possible. The |
tariff and efficient organization would make |
higher wages certainty. Business is sufIi- !
GENTLY disturbed. The defeat of Mckinley |
means demoraIiZation. The people OF Ohio
cannot afford 10 disrupt the business of the |