The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-13
LEADERS ARE DENOUNCED.
Strikers Say They Were Sold Out
at the Conference.
AN EXPLANATION is DEMANDED
Little Abatement of Turmoil in Coal
Districts, and More Outbreaks
Are Expected.

IL dst uDo 1&s--O ultSS buo I'd
tional officers of the Mineworkers' Union.
who made the compromise at Columbus yes
terday, can give satisfactory reason for so
doing, the miners in the Pittsburg district
will not accept the 69.cent rate and the
strike will continue.
President Mcbride has been telegraphed
for and is expected in the district soon. as
the crisis warrants his presence.
The miners throughout the district are
very decided in their condemnation of the
national officials because all of the
delegates 10 the Cleveland conference
were instructed to hold out for the 79-cent
rate and no compromise, and they think
their delegates were bulIdozed into giving
the members of the executive committee
tho right of compromise. With forty
three operators in the district boiling the
conference and refusing to be bound by
any decision made. the miners claim they
have no assurance that the 69-cent rate
Will hold, and that a uniform. rate of 70
cents is the only scale they can agree to.
At MckeespOrt to-day a meeting was
held with 1000 striking miners present.
Denunciatory speeches were made and a
call was issued for another meeting to-
morrow. at which $1,000 strikers will have
representation.
From an officer of the meeting to-day it
was learned that at to-morrow's session
the officers Of the United Mine-workers'
Association would be directed to offer an
explanation of the settlement in the face
of the charges, and that if the answer is
unsatisfactory all the miners in the two
valleys will withdraw from the organiZa-
av,A g. N
CINCINNATI. June 12.-Specials to the
Commercial Gazette summarize the situa-
tion at strike points as follows:
Parkersburg, w. Va.-Mners at Glen
Falls, Harrison County, came out on
strike to-day.
Bellaire-The militia will remain at
BOggs Run until Friday.
West Virginia-The strike will end.
Pennsylvania and Ohio - Accept the
Columbus conference.
WHEELING. ". Va, June 12-Glen
Falls miners compelled the Nelsonville
miners to quit to-day.
SPRINGFIELD. H., June IA reporter
Of the Associated Press interviewed State
President Crawford of the miners union
this afternoon In regard to the Columbus
settlement. He stated he had received no
official notification, but If reports published
in the newspapers are right, the Spring
field and Southern Illinois miners will not
accept it. The only communication he has
received from national headquarters to-
day was instructions to call a conference
Of miners OF districts and 6, and be i'm
mediately issued a call for the conference
to meet in this city Saturday.
Charles Rodgeley, president of the Con-
sOldated Coal and Coke Company, said he
would disregard the settlement and would
continue to pay what be paid before. AL
most every operator In Central and South
ern Illinois. he said. would settle with their
men without regard to the Colum bus scale.
Other operators declined to be interviewed.
PUNxAwTAwNEY. Pa, June 12-Tbe
news of the meeting between Berwynd-
White people and a committee of their
employees that met in Altoona to-day COM
ing to close without settlement was
disappointment TO 1000 miners here, and
does in no degree allay the fears of a seri-
Gus outbreak at any time. Thirty-three
extra deputies with Winchesters arrived
to-day. making 173 in all now on guard at
the Berwynd-White Company mines l and
6. mile and half below town. There
will be no demonstration of any kind to-
day. The miners were cougregated around
the streets anxiously awaiting the result
of the meeting at Altoona, and the most
conservative Of the miners fear that the
fruitless result Of the conference to-day
may make foreigners restless and hard to
hold in check.
The Governors proclamation, which was
posted to-day, is not received with favor
by the miners.
SPRING VALLEY, ILL.,. June ia tele-
gram from Kewanee to-day to the effect
that the men were not working and the
receipt OF the news from Columbus that
settlement had been effected temporarily
changed the plans of the army that was to
move on Kewanee. The streets were
thronged with men talking over the situa-
tion. All condemn the work of the Colum-
bus conference and say they will not go 10
work at the 10-cent reduction. President
Mcbride comes in for big share of abuse
and many miners say it is a sellout They
are determined TO stay out until last years
prices are restored.
CENTRALIA, ILL.,, June 12-The miners
held meeting here this evening to deter
mine what course they would pursue in
the matter of resuming work. There are
about 800 striking miners in this city who
are getting 56h cents per ton. over an
inch and a half screen. The men met TO-
day and decided to fix rate of their own
for this section. IL was determined to fix
a rate of 6219 cents, uniform for summer
and winter rate. This is 6A cents more
than they were receiving before they went
out, and the operators declare they will
not return tomorrow at better rates than
they were receiving at the timethe strike
was declared. The miners have nearly all
signed an agreement to stay out until
they get the 62h cents.
SULLIVAN, Ind, June 1.-THE miners
here are very tired of their enforced idle
ness, having been out of work since NAV
/ and are in very bad circumstances. II il
universally believed they will accept the
Columbus com mpromise and resume work.
CENTRALIA. Ill. June 12.-Leaders in
the coal strike here say the settlement at
Colum bus ia no way affects the Southern
Illinois district and that the miners here
will Dot>be governed by anything done at
that convention.
BRAZIL. Ind, June 1.-THE scale fixed