The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-23
CHEERFUL.
The Block Miners of Indiana Have
Accepted the Agreement,
While the Others In the state Have Refused
TO DO So-In ohio n Large Major.
ity of the Diggcrs VIII DO
Back to Work Again.

COLUMBUS, o., June 1S.-Plcsidcnt
John Mcbride, of the United Nine
workers. Sunday declared that he was
firmly of the opinion that the miners
would accept the terms of settlement
made here last Monday.
~ do not mean to say that they will
all go to work Monday" said he, "but
a great many of them will. At the
time the settlement was made / said
to the operators that 1 did not be-
lieve that the time for rcsuming
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 il was certain that
the miners ofnorthern and eastern Illi-
nois could not be got back in the mines
by the 18th. They will not go to work
Monday. 1t will probably be two
weeks, and perhaps three, before there
is a general resumption there, but it
| will come. .
''In Indiana the block miners have
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
to go to work, so judge that the op-
position can not be SO strong after all.
1 do not know whether the block
miners will go to work Monday or not,
but see the operators have ordered
cars into their mines, so I presume
they think work will be resumed at
once.
"In western Pennsylvania work will
be resumed Monday, except in a few
mines, not exceeding half dozen,
where the operators object to paying
the scale of wages agreed upon.
''In Ohio there is a perplexing condi-
tion. I believe that work will be re-
sumed in practically the entire Hook
ing valley Monday. Possibly the
Straitsville miners may not go back.
At Bellaire, Yorkville, Cambridge,
Steubenville and all the mines of JEFF
ferson county, work will be resumed
Monday morning.
81 think it highly probable that the
Jackson county miners will not go to
work Monday, nor will the Coshocton
miners. In Coshocton county there
will be convention to select delegates
to the state convention here on Tues.
day, but I should not be surprised il
they decide to go to work and omit the
election of delegates.
"In Tuscarawas county the miners
have resolved not to go to work. The
Massillon miners have strike which
is quite different from the national
strike. 1t began last February. They
contend for fifteen-cent difference
upon the Hooking valley scale. They
will continue the strike.
Outside of this competitive field
President Mcbride said that 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 the set.
tlement this week, while in Southern
Illinois, conference of miners and
operators is making satisfactory pro
gress."
Speaking of the state convention tc
be 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
| conventions