The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-07-28
OPERATORS IN CONFERENCE.
Colonel Rend Gets Angry aud Quits the
Meeting.

Pttsburg. July 27.-Eighty- nine coal
companies mines located in the Pitts
burg district, We're represented at the
coal operators uniformity meeting here
to-day. The operators who ship by the
river and those owning mines In the,
Westmoreland field were not present
The river operators held meeting az
the coal exchange this afternoon. and
decided TO take no part in the uniform
ity movement. No attention was paid
TO the call by the Westmoreland peo-
pie. Very little was accomplished at
the sessions to-day. The old uniform
ity agreement. with the new clauses
inserted. was reported on by COM
mittee and the meeting tomorrow will
take up the agreement by clauses for
discussion.
The only sensational incident Of to-
days session occurred when Col. W. i.
Rend presented minority report on
the uniformity agreement denouncing
the procedure of the meeting in severe
terms and boiling the conference.
w. y. Murray called the meeting TO
order at IL 80 a. m. by nominating
Alex Dempster for chairman. Cen
eral John Little was chosen vice I:,s-
ident. He made short address. say
ing the board was here as citizens an:
had no personal interest in the coal
business. They hoped by conciliation
and mediation to bring about a Ret-
tlement between the conten1i ~ fac
tions.
A committee was appointed to take
up the proposed uniformity agreement,
revise IL to suit changed cont'i1n3
since its first formulation and report
TO the conference AT 3 o'clock. A re-
cess was taken to ) o'clock.
At o'clock the committee asked for
another hour and the meeting took a
recess until > O'Clock. when the com
mittee reported the old uniformity
agreement with new clauses and pre-
amble prepared by the visiting arbl-
traitors The report was read and Cap
tain Steyttler moved that IL be received
and the committee discharged.
Colonel Rend demanded recognition
for the hearing of a minority report.
He prefaced the report with a few re
marks on what he termed the contcn-
tion of the meeting. Colonel Rend said
he had been mislsd by General Little
as TO the purpose of the meeting. lie
understood that ii had been called with
view Of Fastening settlement of the
strike and was assured Of that at
conference with the General on Mon
day night. When he got To the meeting
he learned that the strike was not to be
taken into consideration or discussed in
connection with uniformity.
The preamble to the resolution re-
cites the earnest desire of the coal op-
orators of Western Pennsylvania to
devise honorable methods To bring the
strike to termination. deplores the
poverty and misery of the vast army of
miners and their families and claims
he IN h.4A fela I.,s
crafty and false statements as to the
causes responsible for the present and
past turmoil The resolutions follow:
Resolved. That we favor the speedy
adjustment OF this strike and all ques-
tions and controversies come cted
Herewith by Cancellation employed In
a joint conference OF miners and their
employers. and that failing by a Just
adjudication by a tribunal Of arbitra-
tors composed of three United states
judges and thres other gentlemen of
national repute and In whom the en-
tire country can repose confidence.
Resolved. That we favor the princi-
pie and practice of uniformity in It's
true and honest sense but We are un-
alterahly opposed To II in the false and
perverted sense in which Il is to he used
to cloak sham schemes and Transparent
frauds.
Resolved. That We favor true and
honest weights and measures. cash
payments and all other just and equit-
able methods in the prosecution of the
coal business.
Resolved. That We denounce as a
foul falsehoOd and u glaring outrage
the charges and insinuations. so often
publicly made. that general dishonesty
has been practiced in weights and
measures In the MINING industry of
Western Pennsylvania.
Resolved. That the efforts to fasten
on the public mind the slanderous and
atroeious charges are n moral crime
and we denounce the guilty author of
this accusation as a moral criminal.
Resolved. That We are willing and
ready 10 advance the wages Of the
miners. but find ourselves unable to do
this 10 the full extent demanded by
them, % per cent. above the prices that
were paid prior to the strike and now
being paid by one Of the largest coal
companies in Western Pennsylvania,
and which company presents the chief
obstacle to the settlement of the pres
ent conflict"
After the resolutions had been read
the chairman asked TO have some por-