Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-14
A SCALE OF WAGES AGREED ON

New Rates and Bring All obJectors Into
Line--The Great Coal Strike Now Prac-
ticalIy at an End.
COLUMBUS, o., June 1.-THE scale
committee appointed, Saturday by the
comforting miners and operators of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, ,lndiapa and Illinois,
assembled here, came to an agreement
tonight. and the conference ratified
their agreement. So far as the officials
of the United Mine Workers and the
operators are concerned, the strike is
ended.
The result of the conference is COM
promise on the basis of wage prices of
go cents ton for mining in Ohio and
so cents in Pennsylvania. President
Adams of the Ohio district protested to
| the end against any compromise. The
| Ohio miners have been from the begin
| ming dead set for 70 cents ton, and
| hundreds of letters and kilograms pro-
| testing against compromise have been
received by the officials of the United
| Mine Workers.
The very evident desire of President
| Mcbride for dcompromise hasweakened
his authority in Ohio, and the miners
have already begun to call it "sell out"
The result of bolt and continuance
of the strike would unquestionably be
battle and bloodshed. Governor Nc
! Kinley fully appreciates the gravity Of
| the situation, and has ordered mole
troops under arms, in order to be in
stantly ready for any emergency.
VIOLATED FEDERAL LAWS.
The strikers, in stopping coal trains,
violated the njunction-granted by Judge
Taft, OF the Federal courts, aud the
United States officials are preparing to
arrest those guilty of contempt The
marshal Of the Northern district of Ohio
has sworn in 500 deputies and is armlng
them with Winchester rifles. The mar
shal of the Southern district has been
powerless so far. To, attempt o.arrest
the offending. strikers, entrenched as
they are among their friends in the wild
hills OF Belmont county, is sure to pre-
cipltate conflict. In anticipation of
this there are now movements among
the United States troops at the Colum-
bus post.
President Mcbride, in speaking of the
situation, said that the miners were not
fighting for recognition of the United
Mine Workers Of America, but were
demanding uniform scale of wages.
1t was this idea that caused the miners
in the various districts to be authorized
to negotiate with the operators in their
respective districts.
The Indiana and Illinois operators in
sist on having figures in proportion to
Ohio and Pennsylvania, and ON this
considerable time was devoted to arEu-
ments pro and con. Indiana wants a
difference Of 8 cents, and Illinois 2!
cents per ton.
SHOTS FIRED AND MORE TROOPS NEEDED
This afternoon Governor Mckinley
received demands for troops from Stark
and Tuscarawas counties. Sheriff Adams
: of Tuscarawas, and Sheriff Doll oi
Stark, telegraphed from Massillon and
: New Philadelphia that the situation
there is extremely critical. The miners
: are assembling in large number along
the line of the Cleveland; Lorraine &
Wheeling railroad, and they are threat
ening the destruction of property ant
the holding up of trains.
BURNING AND EXPLODING BRIDGES.
Striking miners last night saturated
the Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling rail
road bridge, at Midvale, and fired it
Railroad men discovered and e&tin
guished the flames, but not until thu
, bridge was almost destroyed. They
also this morning blew Up with gian
powder, then burned, short trestlt
: bridge on the Wheeling g. Lake Erit
railway, located ut the Howells Goa
Co.'s East Greenville Mine, five mile
northwest of Mussllon. Also a smal
bridge on the Cleveland, Canton 8
G Southern railroad, just north OF Navarro
n The wage scale committee also re
y ported in detail tonight, agreeing Z
/ wages for mining 1000 pounds OF sof
G coal, as follows:
Pittsburg-Thin vein, SO cents; thicl
/, vein, 81 cents
Q Hooking Sixty cents.
: na--Bituminous, go cents.
n Indiana-Block, 20 cents.
l. Streator, Ill.-Summer, 624 cents.
q Streator, ILL.,. Winter, 20 cents.
% Wilmington-Su 774 cents.
Winter, So cents.
j. La Sale, ILL.,, and Spring Valley
v Summer, 724 cents.
E. La Sale and Spring Valley-Wintel
l. 80 cents.
re- Other sections in northern lllinoi
', fields at prices relative to the above.
a Coal in Pittsburg going East to tide
" water shall pay the same mining price
m as that paid by the Penn Gas g. West
re moreland Coal Co. This scale OF price
rs shall be in effect and bind both. psrtie
d thereto, beginning June 18th, 1894, an