Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-04-16
SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS COAL MIN
ERS LIKELY TO GO OuT.
MEETING TO BE HELD TO-DAY
QUESTION OF STRIKING WILL BE
UNDER CONSIDERATION.
Members of National Executive COM
mittee of United Mine Workers
VIII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Com
..,ssy ventiOn to BE Held Mt
Pittsburg Friday.

PITTSBURG, KAS., April 15.-(SpecaI.)
A mass meeting of miners will be held in
Chicopee tomorrow afternoon for the pur-
pose of talking over plans for the Inaugural
ton of a strike in this district, and to dis
cuss ways and means for keeping miners
families from want during the suspension
of work. About twenty striking miners
from the Hartshorne. I. T., district arrived
in the city this morning to attend the meet
ing, and they say that five men are among
the miners in Missouri arranging plans for
a strike there at the same time work is sus-
pended IN the Kansas mines
1t is now conceded here that a suspension
of work in the entire Southeastern Kansas
district Is inevitable. The demand here will
De scale of wages for all mine work,
which the men claim is not uniform now.
Some think that the suspension of work will
occur only in the mines of the Central Coal
and Coke Company, Western Coal and Min
Ing Company and Kansas and Texas Coal
Company. James Boston, of the national
executive board of the United Mine Work
ers; Mr.. Reese, also a member of the board,
and other officers of the national associa-
ton of the United Mine Workers arrived in
the city this afternoon and will be in at
tendance al the meeting Tomorrow
Inc following circular was issued to-day
by W. T. Wright district president Of the
U. NJ. w. A.:
To Our Unions Troughout the District
"Greeting:-The situation confronting the
miners of Arkansas and the Indian Terri
tory is now a grave and serious one-the
constitutional right of an American citizen
to belong to labor organization. The
cause Of these men has gone beyond the
confines of district No. q. and has become
a national one. and our national officers
have called upon me to lend every assist
ance possible in enabling our brethren in
Arkansas and the Indian Territory to sue
cessfully assert their rights. Therefore, in
obedience to these instructions and comply
ing with the actions of our different locals
| hereby call a delegate convention. on a
basis of one delegate for every fifty men,
bers of every local union in the district
also every unorganized mining camp on the
same basis. and especially along the Kan
sas and Texas Coal Company's system the
Western Coal and Mining Company's sys-
tenn, the Central Coal and Coke Company's
system and the Southwestern Improvement
Companys system. throughout the states
of. Kansas and Missouri, to be held in the
April q, 1899. at O'Clock a. M. sharp, fer
the purpose of considering our affairs in
Arkansas and the Indian Territory The
main question to come before you for your
deliberation is: Shall the right to organize
be maintained? Send your delegates fully
instructed, SO that you may be enabled to
promptly arrive at a conclusion. All dele
gates will present credentials in duplicate
form, SO as to expedite preliminary work.
Let every camp be reRreSsntsdi rev, S, Wk,eHr
District President District No. ID. Kansas
and Missouri United Mine Workers of
America"