The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-17
WAGES OF THE MINERS.
The Two Sides to the Controversy Pre-
sent Their Propositions.


Cleveland, o., May 16.-The repre-
sental'es of the miners and
NINE owners separately today
agreed that committee of five mem
+ oers representing each state be appointed
To agree upon a scale of wages to be pre-
sented to the Joint convention, arranged
satisfactorily to each state upon that
OASIS. Following is the operators com
Qhio-F. f. Morton, John Brashears.
OF hooking; w r. Woodford. Eastern
ONO: h, l.. Chapman, of jackson; w. ].
Mullins, of Massillon
Pennsylvania = NJ H. Taylor, John
and +. L. Robbins
ndiana-W. f. Kenner, ]. R. Seifert.
Daley. -
Inc conference committee of the miners
consists of President John Mcbride
wee President p. II. Penna, of Indiana
Secretary Patrick McBryde, and District
PRESIDENT j. w. Crawford, of Illinois
cameron Miller, of Ohio; w. B. Wilson
and John Cairnes, of Pennsvlvania:
A. Adams, of Ohio, Joseph Dunkerley, of
INDIANA, Jere Meade, of Maryland, and
John Fahey, of Ohio
All business in both meetings was sus-
pended until ? y. m. to hear from the CON
terence, the report to be made in Joint
convention. In the interval the con
ferees met in the chamber of commerce.
Inc miners submitted their demands.
which was restoration of the old rate.
The operators offered a 65 cents rate
for Pennsylvania, and Sc cents for Ohio.
President Mcbride made a strong
speech, saying that the miners would
never agree to a settlement Oh this basis,
At 3 O'Clock the Joint committee was still
IN session, while the delegates were as
semoled In Case hall awaiting their re-
port.
NO AGREEMENT REACHED.
The Joint committee remained in ses-
sion until O'Clock this evening, when an
adjournment till morning was taken. 1t
was announced that no agreemen had
heen reached. The counter proposition
of the miners was the scale of last year
~ cents for Pennsylvania, and all other
sections to be adjusted on that basis.
Ihls would make the Ohio rate 20 cents.
The conferees from the operators were
not authorized TO accept this proposition
and the miners refused to hear the opera
tors rate
The operators had a meeting to-
night to hear the report of their con-
ferries and consider the situation. While
that settlement of the differences with
the miners can be effected, the true state
of affairs is that the two sides of the
question are Just as far apart tonight as
they were two days ago.
DON'T WANT A SETTLEMENT.
Patrick Mcbride said tonight that, in
credible as it might seem, there were
many of the operators vino did not really
desire a settlement at present Why
said he, lit is positive fact that the
Pennsylvania river operators have be-
tween 10000, 900 and 30,OO0,0OO bushels of
coal in transit between Pittsburg and
Cincinnati, or in barges tied up against
the river bank. Do you think they will
break their necks trying 10 get the mines
opened before the coal is marketed with
prices climbing upward every day? It's
not human nature that they should"
A prominent operator stated candidly
to correspondent that as far as he was
concerned he was in no hurry for a set
Element. He was asked if the iron in
terests were not demanding a settlement,
and stated that they were not, but many
of the iron manufacturers welcomed the
pretext for shutting down their works in
the present state of the iron trade.