The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-05-18
Mcbride Scores the Coal
Operators.
PAID STARVATION WAGES.
Forcing the Miners Into a Virtual
Slavery.
AsHAnED OF HIS CITIZENSHIP.
No Honest Man Can Take Pride in
Being One of Such a
Nation.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 17.-When the
coal convention met to-day the miners and
operators were as far apart as ever and
there was no prospect Of an agreement
The contracts taken by Pittsburg opera
tors for furnishing fuel for the railroads
and lake vessels at 81 80 per ton. against
50 % to 50 so last year, stand in the way
Of settlement.
After the joint conference committee
reported that they could not agree Presi-
dent Mcbride said he was willing to have
a vote taken on the compromise offered
by the operators, but he guaranteed that
the miners would be unanimously against
il. He continues LAS a natve-born citi-
zen l blush TO think that business interests
are builded upon the starvation and de-
grading wages paid the lab0rers repre-
sent. We ask you TO give us living wages
and increase the price Of coal, so you can
get fair profit"
Colonel Rand of Chicago said 50 and
56 cent basis was too 10 ". and proposed a
compromise Of 60 and 90. He scored the
Miners Association for refusing to permit
the miners to work where operators con-
coded the demand, and said unless the
miners backed down the operators would
beat them. Vice-President Pena responded
holly TO the alleged insinuatiOns against
President Mcbride.
When the conference reassemb ed in the
aftern Don the speech-making was con-
tinued Chapman of Pilts5urg speaking
for The operators and Patrick McBryde
and John Cairns for the miners. Then
President Mcbride Of the Miners Union
asked the operators and spectators to
leave the hall in order that the miners
might hold a conference. AT its cOnclu-
sion President Mcbride offered res olutions
recitiDg that, as large number of oper-
ators who had refused to attend the con-
ference had refused the hand of reconcile
alton and peace that had been extended
the II. the miners believed any settlement
arrived at in the absence Of those oDer-
atOrs would only add to and accentuate
the miserable condition of the miners, and
that it was Impossible 10 make any settle
ment with the operators who had met
here. While approaching the efforts OF
the operators who had attended the con-
ference 20 reach a settlement the miners
asked their cooperation in bringing peace
able and persuasive pressure to bear upOu
the absent operators TO induce them to
agree to terms with the miners. These
resolutions we're offered to the conference
as expressing the views of the miners,
and as there seemed 10 be nothing more to
do the conference adjourned sine die.
The Ohio operators will meet in Colum-
bus next Wednesday and the Pennsylvania
operators in Pittsburg on Monday.
Dies MONIES, Iowa. May 17.-Tbree
hundred and fifty miners started to-day to
Evans, where the Rock Island gets coal.
The railroad officials applied to the Sheriff
for protection.
Five hundred miners marched to the
Poor Farm mine, north OF the city, TO in
duee the miners to jim the strike.
CHICAGO, May 1.-THE Grand Trunk
announced to-day that. pending the set
Element of the coal-strikes, no more grain
would be received for shipment.
CHARLESTON, W. Va. May IA
special to the Daily Gazette from Thur
mond. the center of the Turlupe Creek
mining distric,. says all the mines in the
creek are running to-day.
LITTLE Rock. Ark, May IT. - Five
hundred miners employed in mines Is and
16 of the Kenny mines went out on strike
to-day. The men have no grievances, but
struck in sympathy with the general strike
now existing tErOug bout he country.