St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-10

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COLUMBUS. o., June 9.-The scale
committee adjourned at midnight to
Monday morning at 9 O'clock. A settle
ment now seems probable. The COM
mittee has practically agreed upon a
basis of 60 cents for Ohio, and
60 cents for Western Pennsylvania.
The Indiana miners and operators re-
fuse to agree to settlement unless the
Grape Creek miners and operators in
Western Illinois are brought into it.
The proceedings of today's conference
are as follows: The committees Of coal
operators who are here today to confer
with committees representing the
miners went into executive session at 8
O'Clock. The meeting then adjourned till
4 p. M, to- give the scale committee
time to work and the operators time to
confer with each other. An Indiana
man said his state would stand by any
reasonable proposition. 1t is known
that men OH both sides are willing to
agree Oh 50 cents per ton for the
Pittsburg district, 60 cents for the
Hooking Valley and Otner districts in
proportion. The miners, however, will
try to have that scale adopted for sum
mer. with an advance of five cents for
winter. The representatives of the
operators having come ont of executive
session, the joint
MEETING OF OPERATORS
and representatives of the miners was
called to order by H. l.. chatham. an
operator of the Jackson, o., district,
residing at Columbus.
J. b. Gibe. of Cleveland, an operator,
was made chairman. and William War
ner, miner, secretary. with Frank s.
Brooks, of the operators, as assistant.
The joint meeting then appointed as
committee OH scale of wages the follow
ing operators:
f. l.. Robbins and William Taylor,
Pennsylvania; A. L. Sweet and E. T.
Bent. Northern Illinois: W. S. Bogel
and J. S. TaIdy, of Indiana. On the
part of the miners, the scale committee
is composed of John Mcbride. Ohio; p.
III. Penna. Indiana; Joshua Dinkerlv,
Pennsylvania; James NJ. Murray. Hi
nois; Cameron Miller, Ohio; A. A. Ad
ans, Ohio. and John II. Kearns, Indi-
ana. The meeting is small because of
its being composed of representatives.
Mr.. Chapman said he called it at the
suggestion of the miners officials. Tie
operators represent over two-thirds of
the bltuminous coal fields in the United
States. More than half of the miners
are represented. Western. Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio. Indiana and Northern and
Eastern Illinois is the territory repre-
scented by the operators The rep
representatives OF Ohio operators are H.
H.. Chapman, Jackson district: j. S.
Morton, W. S. CORTLAND and G.. Mar
win, Hooking district; j. B. Zerbe, A.
G. Blair and w. L.. Woodford,
Eastern Ohio. Eastern Pennsylvania
is represented by NJ. L. Taylor. F. l..
Robinson and John Blythe. Northern
Illinois by w. H.. Holcombe. A. l..
Sweet. Harry Taylor, E. L. Burt. S. NJ.
Dalzell; Indiana by W. 5. Boyle. j. K.
Sebert. A. NJ. Ogle, Joseph Martin,
David Ingle, w. Kenner and J. $. Tall
ley. The representatives Of the miners
are all shown on
THE SCALE COMMITTEE.
There are many interested persons
here looking on. E. H. johnson asked
at the opening if this was meeting of
the committees Of the various districts.
Mr.. Chapman replied that 1t was, but
he was anxious to have all persons
present who were interested in the
coal business and that the general
public should know all that was said.
The rules of the Cleveland convention
were adopted for the use of this COLI
vention. Mr.. Morris. of Cleveland, I'M
Outstanding the meeting was suggested
by the miners, asked to hear from them.
John Mcbride said the usual plan
Was to appoint scale committee, but
before doing so. the miners desired to
hear from the Pennsylvania operators
as to what interests were represented,
and as to what influence any split
among them might have.
NJ. Ii. Taylor said he accepted the ill.,
vitatiOn to come here with the under
standing that the miners had receded
from the position they held at Cleve.
land. Sixty three PittSburg operalo rs
favored settlement. Fifty-three were
opposed to settlement. Out of this
| number. fourteen represented mines in
the Big Vein district who would not
paw the same price as other operators.
1t was not fair. that they should. How
ever, if fair agreement was reached.
thirty-four of the opposing mines would
join the siXty-three i'll accepting the
| settlement. Col. Sweet said that Illinois
miners would stand by any reasonable
agreement made at this meeting.
The scale committee, as above noted,
was then appointed. The scale com
mttee did not report at p. m. as was
expected, and after waiting until 6
O'Clock the meeting adjourned until s
p. IN. The scale committee again
asked for further time and the meeting
ADJOURNED to 10:30.