Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-10
GREAT STRIKE.
SEvENTY-FlVE THOUSAND MIN
Frs TO STOP WORK.
Five Hundred Thousand Persons Directly
and Hundreds of Thousands IndI-
rectly Affected.

PITTsBURG, Pa, April 9.-The convention
closed this evening suddenly after fierce
battle Of words and opinions. Further talk
was declared proftlesS and an adjournment
was made sine die. This action means
practically that the interstate agree
/ the a-nicable and harmonious rela-
tons that have existed between
the two classes for the past five years are
broken OF and may not be resumed. 1t
also means that 5000 mine workers IL
these two regions will cease work on the lst
of May, affecting 500, 900 persons directly and
| hundreds of thousands indirectly, as the
mine workers Of the country will also demand
an eight-hour day. The continuation of
work after May now seems almost i'm
possible. The two great organizations of
| the country, the Knights of Labor and the
Federation Of Labor are back Of the men
and their money will be at their disposal.
THE DENISE OF THE CONVENTION
was fastened by the report of the commit
tee having the eight-hour day in hand
The miners formed propositions in
the report to which the operators
on the committee strenuously objected.
The propositions We're:
l. That u reduction in the pay OF day
labor relative to the reduction in hours will
be allowed.
q That we proceed TO make our wage
scale with the understanding that eight
| hours constitute q days work after the
1st Of May, without operators officially
endorsing it; but il it does not generally
prevail within reasonable length of time
the miners will not insist on its enforce
| ment.
These had been modified from the first
demands of the miners, but every operator
in the two states with one exception will
fight the movement. The one exception is
Col. W. P. Rend Of Chicago. He came
into the convention and said that
he was in favor Of a shorter day. and made
speech that was favorable to the miners.
He discussed the situation with the opera
tors, advising a trial Of the scheme, but
found them so strongly opposed to It that
he was unable 10 make any impression and
gave up
ALL HOPE oP CONVERSION.
The most important business of the con-
vention aside from the pronounced disagree
ment between the miners and operators was
the passage OF the following resolution at
secret session Of the miners Immediately
after the operators filed out Of the room:
Resolved, that the miners Of the COM
petitive fields demand an advance May 1st
OF pick money miners money!, equivalent
| to an advance Of 10 cents per ton in the
Hooking ned, on the basis of an eight-hour
| working day and no place is TO resume
operations until we have received the ad-
| vance or until instructed by the executive
board.
The labor leaders say tonight they are
pleased on the whole that the operators did
not accept their compromise prop
osition on the eight-hour ques-
| ton. If they had. sectional strikes
| would have resulted, while now the miners
are unit. The non-union men are as pro-
nounced as the unionists and It is best the
fight be made universal now, for good and
| for all.
Grand Excursion ard
May l, a. Seymouc-s county Two