Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-21
NJ BRIDE VS.. ADAMS
The Miners Leaders Score
Each Other Bitterly.

COLUMBUS o., June 2O-There were
many sensational scenes in the meeting of
Ohio miners here yesterday afternoon,
charges of a serious character being hurled
back and forth by President John Mcbride,
of the United Mine Workers, and A, A.
Adams, president of the Ohio miners.
The convention OF Ohio miners adopted q
resolution inviting President Mcbride to
address the convention and explain the
compromise settlement of the strike. In
doing so he handled President Adams,
who has led the opposition to the settle
ment in this state without gloves char5-
ing him with attempted treason to the
cause and attempting to turn the strike
into anarchy, and President Adams in
his reply, which was even more bitter in
tone, charged Mcbride with duplicity and
"selling OUT
There were "A delegates present, repre-
senting Secretary Pearse said, 63 local as
sembhes and 5000 members. Novote was
taken that showed the feeling toward the
settlement, but from the applause it
seemed that the delegates We're about
equally divided on the question.
A resolution endorsing the action of the
Ohio executive board in standing out for
40 cents was almost unanimously adopted,
'''N - SRSNSh ~ iAtIiNSCLhdbANS InOIudS,
of Stark county, advising that a resolu-
tion be adopted requesting all Ohio miners
to go to work at once was enthusiastically
applauded
The appearance Of the national officers
in the convention at this time, however,
stopped further proceedings.
Before addressing the convention Presi-
dent Mcbride wanted to know whether
they were instructed to vote against the
settlement or not, If they were it was
useless to argue the question. 1t was
found that about one-third of the dele
gates were so instructed.
Mcbride proceeded, after some hesta-
ton. He spoke about an hour and showed
that at the annual convention here the
miners had resolved to suspend work until
ordered in by the national officers: that
the latter We're authorized to make a con-
tract for year. AT the Cleveland conven-
tion the district presidents were added to
the national officers as n strike committee
into whose hands the whole matter was
put. From this point his recount of the
strike closely followed his review of it
published last week. At the time the
strike committee decided to authorize local
settlement, said he, the strike was in i'm
mlnent danger OF going to pieces in every
state but Ohio and Indiana. He gave the
weakness Of the strike in these states and
the causes of it in detail. On May 2B the
local union at Gloucester, o., President
Adams home, wrote that the miners were
starving, while from all sides came the
cry For Gods sake end the strike, men
are ready to break"
Abiding to lawlessness and destruction
of property, he said much of it was in
preparation and never reached the surface.
From one mining district the miners
wrote him that they had IA cannon secretly
trained ON mine. The press, that had
sympathized with us at first, turned
against us when lawlessness showed itself.
There was nothing in the Cleveland reso-
luton requiring anational settlement
incidentally, he said he thought they
would have trouble in Pennsylvania main
tanning the 90 cent rate. President Adams.
he said did not refuse to act on sub-com-
mittee of the strike committee appointed
after they had concluded to make the best
local settlements possible but after the
work was all done, refused to sanction it,
when the other 10 members of the COM
mittee signed it, said Mcbride adams
rolled his eyes toward heaven tragfcally
and said: j believe we can win: now is the
time to fight the differences between labor
and capital. There never was lasting
victory without blOOdshed and 1 am ready
for it now
Then Mcbride sailed into Adams rough
shod. He charged that he was Il traitor to
the cause, because he had tried to stir up
dissenston in the organization. He referred
TO Adams apocalypses and to his stories
that people were trying to assassinate him.
Here is n man, said he, mot sane enough
to run at large, charging the national ofli-
wit Al
the strike in the interest of President
Cleveland Why is there a man here who
does not know it would have been the
crowning act ofmy lifeif could have made
a success Of this strike"
Adams was presiding and sail nothing
except to deny that he had reported that
Mcbride had ended the strike in the inter- |
est Of the democratic party President |
Mcbride closed by saying that il made no |
difference what this convention did.
-Four ffths of the miners of the state
have approved it, he said, "and gone to
work"
Secretary McBryde spoke briefly, saying
he did not believe the strike could have
held out week longer.
Then President Adams took the fooraud |
defended himself He denied that he had |
acted in bad faith in the strike committee |
lie only oDeyed the behest of the Ohio |
miners, and he would take the same course |
If he had to do it over again. By inference |
he charged President Mcbride over and |
over again with working with the opera |
tors in selling the strike and recounted a
story OF how Mcbride and the operators
sought to do him violence through John |
Short, an eX-mine inspector, when he re-
fused to sign the scale. The speaker aud
Mcbride became involved in question of
veracity but after fiat denials from both
sides, Adams resumed his vehement speech
Att o'clock the convention adjourned until
to-day. 1t will probably accept the settle
ment and order the men back to work.
Colorado Coxeyites.
JULEsBuRG, Col, June 20.-Fifty Cox
eyites, al that remain of the band Of /. 300
that left Denver two weeks ago for Wash
ington, started down the Platte river in
boats General, Carter said he intended
to return to Salt Lake at once Heis tired
OF the movement, he savs Al o.,,lt,1