The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
ARBITRATION REFUSED.
BOARD REJECTSPROPOSITION OF PITTS
BURG OPERATORS TO CONFER.
Success or FaiInre Now Hangs on the
Result of the Conference "orkiegmeHi
Leaders Are to Have in st Louis Nex'
Week.

The national executive board OF the
United Mine Workers adjourned at
Columbus, O., Friday after having
issued call for a conference OF orga-
nized labor to be held in st. Louis,
August 30th.
The board rejected the proposition
of the Pittsburg operators for con-
ference to arbtrate the wage dispute
in that district, claiming that such &C.
ton would be prejudicial to the inter-
est of the miners at large.
The board is ready to consider over
lures for the arbitration of the issue
of the great strike only when these
overtures come from all the operators
in the competitive district, which in
cludes Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The board has decided not to deviate
from the established policy until the
result Of the st. Louis conference u
known. The aggressive work in the
field will be continued, and the efforts
to spread the strike in the West Vir-
ginia district renewed.
The SUCCESS or failure Of the strike
hangs upon the St. Louis conference,
the call for which has been issued by
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and }.
r. Sovereign, general master work
man of the knights of Labor. They
maintain that the fight new being
waged by the miners is one of common
interest to organized labor Throughout
the country. =
Atthe St. Louis conference all labor
organizations will be asked to join is
sues with the miners. If the object
of the St. Louis conference is accom-
plished the strike will be extended tc
yearly every branch Of labor ii the
country. "
The call, among other things, says;
1.-THE tyrannicul and un-Anerican in
functions of the Federal and State
courts are revolutionary against thu
first principles of fec government ano
derogatory to the inherent rights o
masses, endangering the public peace
and destroying the personal securit,
and Municipalities of the ,GPmmo1
people. .sss i,
1.-The courts haye'desertedtho tempt
| of Justice and nov, stands forth tn
defiant 5ulwark of confederates in the
/ CAPITOL Their arbitrary rulings have
/ set ND one standard Of rights for the
rich and another for the poor. The
decree, that capital is always right ane
4 labor always wrong. They have made
|. it unlawful for starving working peo
pie to appeal against tyrannical treat
| ment, present grievances or propos
4 lust and peaceable terms for the redres
Il of insufferable wrongs.
H ''But it is no longer mere struggl
II between employees and employer
II The Judiciary has assumed the indie
u feasible claims Of the operators an
the struggle IS between tyrann'ot
e eoarts S sH api 5ssi sstb to 81
"A the rich and poor alike,ahave vblhi
Il teered to defe1aA asordid interests I
II the rich as agaia & aQ-giyep righl
Il of the poor. l And VOW ,thasatenst
Il turn the gatling guns ana cheatsl
Il of criminals AMI thugs against all Wh
H dare protest against their despisabl
4 sressraining orders. The judiciary
u sprostituted to the bidding Of ,oppre
sive capital, has placed the rights {
4 property above the rights Of person
h and has Disseminated against thSpan
4 interests OF the few I'd