Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-06-13
THE STRIKE STILL UNSETTLED
The Pennsylvania Strikers Demand an Ex- plantation From Their Representatives and Threaten to Stay Out-IllinOis Men VIII Hold Out For Orig inal Demands.

PTFTSBURG, June 13.-UnleSS the na- tional offi3ers of the Mine Workers union, who made the compromise at Columbus can give satisfactory reason for so doing the miners in the Pittsburg district will not accept the 60 cent rate, and the strike will continue. Scores of telegrams, letters and delegations have been pouring in on the district officers here from all parts of the district denouncing the compromise and all declare that work shall not be re- stunned next week. President Mcbride has been telegraphed for and is expected In the district soon, as the crisis warrants his immediate presence.
 The miners throughout the district are very decided in their condemnation of the national officials because all of the dele gates to the Cleveland convention were instructed to hold out for the 79 cent rate and no compromise, and they think their delegates were bulldozed into giving the members of the executive committee the right to compromise.
 With 43 operators in the district bolt ing the conferences and refusing to be bound by any decisions made, the miners claim that they have no assurance that the 69 cent rate will hold; that operators will again cut rates as soon as the market is cased off, and that a uniform rate of 79 cents is the only scale they can agree to.
 At Mckeesport today a meeting was held with 1000 strikers present, represent ing Monongahela and Youghiogheny val leys. Dcnunciatory speeches were made, and call was Issued for another meeting, at which 15.0O0 strikers will have repre- sentation.
 From an officer of the meeting it was learned that at todays session the off cials of the United Mine Workers associa- tion will be directed to offer an explana- tion of the settlement in face of the charges made, and if the answer was unSatisfac- tory all the miners in the two valleys will withdraw from the organization and con- tinuc the strike for 70 cents.
 Illinois Miners Will Stay Out.
 SPRINGFIELD, Ills, June 13.-Mr. Craw ford of the miners union, in an interview in regard to the Columbus settlement, stated that he had received no official in formation as to the announced agreement, but if the report was correct the Spring field and southern Illinois miners will not accept it. The only communication PreSi- dent Crawford has received from national headquarters was instructions to call a convention of the miners of Districts f, , and G. and he immediately issued call for the convention to meet in this city on Saturday, the 16th inst.
 Charles Ridgcly, president of the Con- solidated Coal company, considers the set clement very important so far as Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania are concerned, not because of the rates of wages fixed in the scale adopted for he expected to adhere to the rate of wages which he has heretofore paid without regard to the settlement at Columbus, but he thinks that President Mcbride must now be in a dilemma out of which settlement of the strike in Hi nois on the operators terms must result.
 "McBride found last Saturday at East St. Louis,' said Ridgcly, 'that every op- orator in central and southern Illinois is solid against him and hopelcssly so and having settled at Columbus will be con- pelled to let the miners of these sections settle for themselves with their employ CTS, and they will do this whether or no in case he does not allow it.
 President DictSon of the United Mine Workers of the Danville field said that the feet here whatever.
 HOur demands were made at East St. Louis and have not been accepted, v he said. "Until they are WIG will stay out
 MT. Shouse, delegate to East St. Louis, said in his opinion the strike in the Dan vile field would not be settled this sum- mcr. The coal operators here, however, speak hopefully of the situation and think the backbone of the strike has been bro ken.
 A dispatch from Centralia says that the leaders in the coal strike movement there say that the settlement at Columbus in no way affects the southern Illinois dis trict, and that the miners there will not be governed by anything done at that con vention.