Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-02
10 QUIT ON JULY 4EH'
yhrss Hundred aud SsVsnty-hYe
Thousand Men Involved.
QUESTION OF HIGHER WAGES
.u,,ue tho s,rikers in Tcnuessoe
and Kentucky Arc said 10
He Destitute.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July "a gen
ara, ,,r,se Of the Uuited mine wofAeis
n, America has been ordered on july
nv the national executive boaru'
alan NV the district presidents.
The Official document says;
uro the mine workers Of the coun-
Try, greeting;
FeIlow miners-At the last annual
convention of the United Mine WORK
era of America, held In the CITY OF
Columbus, OHIO, Jan. IL, 1897, It was
determined that the tcsle OF prices
,nculd he advanced to the following
rstss; Penney vsniu, Pittsburg uistr'e''
nick miniog, 90 cents per ton; ONO,
"a csp,s per ton; Indiana (bituminous)
90 ents per ton; Illinois (Grape creek)
Il 66 cents per ton.
Machine men were to be paid three
n 6,ths OF the price OF pick mining
"a except in the Indiana bituminous,
q where the price shall be four-hiths per
VI ton Of the price paid for pick minins'
8 other mining sections corresponding
81 increase In price that will place them
III on q relative basis. 1t was iurther
Y apreed that the time Tor enforcement
of the scale be left with the national
n executive board and the district pres
81 iuents to Determine when 1t would be
In nh
81 effect. F.1l...sIl. !.
"In the general business revival and
II Industrial Improvement, whicn 10
n earnestly proclaimed, we ought TO
N share, and II we do not attempt 10
A share we shall rob ourselves and those
4 dependent upon US. Lot the watch
4 word be, mime workers are entitled 10
Il a lair days work. Local committees
n are directed 10 be formed and TO See
n that action is taken at once.
III ITO insure SUCCESS great care should
Vi he exercised b. all that no breach OF
III the peace occurs ut any time or place.
"A or unuer any circumstances. Bulle.
"a Tins will be Issued from time 10 time
Y to keep you informed Of the progress OF
sfiairs.n
81 The national executive board is
q composed OF Fred Dlloher, David II.
|X Jenny, Harry Stephenson, James M.
VI Carson AM Patrick Dolau.
m M. ID. RItchtord 10 president o the
national executive board, John Kane
~ vice president anu w. g. Pearce,
81 secretary. All these names are signed
III to the cirrulsr.
& The I'll ,ers here say that 375, 900
VA men are AZ voived as proposed strikers
Al President Rstchford says this IL thu
M hest time TO settle the question OF wages
NJ 80 during the summer the men car
make use OF their little garden patche
to obtain subsistence. The needs o
I'd clothing ore not so great as in winter
III The proposed foale 10 Intended by
n the miners to make the wnrI
IL pro fitable to them In the Pitts
burg district and elsew here
Pitlsburg as claimed In paying g.
"a cents Ter ton ard Ohio SO. To maxi
"a the difference what the Onioans thinl
1t ought 10 be, they threatened to ne
h duce the wages TO 45. The miner
propose II possible to raise Pittsbur
Il prices 20 as to prevent Reduction
nere, IN case PlttsbuTg sh ould keep Of
81 lowering, as Ohio lowered, to main
lain the uifiefential of nine cents.
~ IN FAVOR OF A STRIKE.
PIT1sBuRG, Pa, July 2.-The off
clai clTcuisr ordering national slrik
q coal min.rs IN five states on Jul,
9Th was received at the district head
m quarters from Columbus, Ohio, at /
b. NJ, and copies were at once sent q
10 the different mines. Action o
m this circular will be taken at the dill
"a u o. convention OF miners In this cit
In tomorrow. There seems TO be n
~ uou6t but that the delegates will com
Instructed to declare q strike.
3 TENNESSEE STRIKERS pEsTITuTE.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July O.
me sltuaiiUn IN the East Tenne
see and south kentucky coal mimi
q gIunHy Is becoming very ,seriou
rs iheie are over 1000 idle men in Il
Jellioo district aud nearly the san
humber along the line of the ClnoiI
n lhu Southern rsiiiond. These me
slrueh May let and have done Z
7'i wotk since. All efforts to settle II
nfike have proved unsvailing. Fe
d Vi me men had any money saved u
shu the majority are now suffering 1,
'he Necessities Of lite.