The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-06-21
CHEERFUL
The Block Miners of indiana Have
accepted the Agreement,
while the Others In the State Have Refused
(. 60 DO So-In Ohio Large hraIor.
ity Of the Diggcrs wsM Go
Back co Work Again.

| CoY.UMBUs, o., June 1e.-Presidcnt
John Mcbride. OF the United Mime
workers. Sunday declared that he was
firmly of the opinion that the miners
would accept the terms Of settlement
made here last Monday.
II do not mean to say that they will
ell go TO work Monday" said he. 'sbut
great many of them will. At the
time the settlement was made said
to the operators that did not be-
licve that the time for resuming
work should be made SO short. and
when. in Difference to the operators,
who were anxious to resume operations
as soon as possible, yielded upon this
point, I said that it was certain that
the miners of northern and eastern illi.
nois could not be got back in the mines
by the 18th. They will not go to work
Monday. It will probably be two
weeks, and perhaps three, before there
Is general resumption there, but It
will come.
I'm Indiana the block miners havc
accepted the agreement. while the
other miners in the state have refused
TO do so. One-third OF the delegates to
the state convention, however, voted
20 go TO work, so judge that the op-
position can not be SO strong after all.
! do not know whether the block
miners will go to work Monday OF not,
but ! sec the operators have ordered
cars into their mines, SO presume
they think work will be resumed at
once.
in western Pennsylvania work will
be resumed Monday, except in few
mines, not exceeding half dozen,
where the operators object to paying
the scale of wages agreed upon.
"In Ohio there is perplcxing condi-
ton. l believe that work will be re-
sumed In practically the entire Hook
ing valley Monday. Possibly the
Strnitsville miners may not go back.
At Bcllnire, Yorkville, Cambridge,
Steubenville and NIL the mines Of JEFF
ferson county, work will be resumed
Monday morning.
81 think 1t highly probable that the
Jackson county miners will not go to-
work Monday, nor will the Coshof.oton
Ialil.erss, IL f'esiiisfsatoA county there
Will be convention to select delegates
to the state convention here on Tues
day, but | should not be surprised II
they decide to go to work and omit the
election of delegates
ain TuseaFawas county the miners
have resolved not to go to work.. The
NIassillon miners have a strike which
is quite different from the national
strike. 1t began last February. They
contend for fifteen-cent difference
upon tho Hooking valley scale. They
will continue the strike.
Outside of this competitive field
President Mcbride said chat terms Of
settlement either had been or were
being made. Iowa." said he, 'has
settled upon most excellent terms for
the miners. Kansas is now working.
President McGregor. of Missouri, says
the state will fall in line with THIS set.
Element This week, while in Southern
illinois, a conference of miners and
opera tors is making satisfactory pro.
gress."
Speaking OF the state convention to
ta held here next Tuesday. President
Mcbride said the only danger now was
that the districts that accepted the
agreement and went to work Monday
might send delegates, and this would
leave the radicals in full control OF the
convention"