The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-24
End SEEMS 10 Be N SIGHT
ANTHRACITE MINERS EXPECTED
TO BE BACK AT WORK
BY MONDAY
MORE COMPANIES IN LINE
Notices Posted in the Scranton Dis
trict Granting Ten Per Cent
Increase and Covering the
Powder Question.

POTTSVILLE, Pa, Oct. 23.-Rain fell
heavily during the meeting, but the large
crowd, estimated at nearly 5000 persons,
did not seem to mind the downpour.
John Fahey, president of this district,
presided. President MitchelPs speech
was listened to with great interest. His
most important utterance bearing di-
rectly on the ending of the strike was as
follows:
II believe it will be but a few days
longer until the operators in the Hazel
ton, Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys
will consent to post notices agreeing to
pay the 10 per cent increase in wages
until April l. I believe that if you stand
together the rest of this week, by Mon
day at the latest you can return to
work with everything won you struck
for
President Mitchell said that this ought
to have been a jollification meeting.
Schuylkill county, he said, has already
won its fight in that the Reading COM
pany has agreed TO all the miners ask
He said reports had gone out that the
men of the Schuylkill region will not
stand by the men of the other regions,
but he knew that the reports We're wrong
and added that he felt sure that no one
man would desert his fellow workmen
He hoped that all would stand together
until an official notice is sent out declaF-
ing the strike at an end.
President Mitchell then made a plea
that all the miners remain loyal to the
organization after the contest is over,
just as they are doing now.
MINERS WE'LL PLEASED.
HAZELTON, Pa, Oct. 2s.-President
Mitcheli's statement in his speech at
Pottsville today that he believed the
strike would be ended by next Monday
If all the operators posted notices guar
anteeing the 10 per cent advance until
April l, was received here tonight with
! much pleasure by the mine workers and
the mine officials. It is believed that
nothing will now intervene to delay the
ending of the contest.
A meeting of the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers Of
America and the officers of the three
anthracite districts will be held here to-
morrow for the purpose, Mr.. Mitchell
says, of thoroughly canvassing the situa-
ton. He said he would not take tie re-
sponsibility upon himself of calling off
the strike, but would rather have the
national board vote upon the question
Those who are expected to attend tomor-
rows meeting are w. r. Farley of Ala
bama, Fred Dilcher of Ohio, George Pur-
cell of Indiana, Benjamin James, mem
bers of the national executive board !;
| President D. T. Nichols and Secretary
L o. i,
| dent Thomas Duffy and Secretary John
P. Gallagher of District No. I, and Presl-
| dent John Fahy and Secretary George
Hartlein of District No. g.
Vice Grand Master Fitzgerald of the
| Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at
tended a meeting of trainmen at Free
| land, twelve miles north of here, today.
| The object of the meeting could not be
learned, but it is believed that the min,
ino1 c116ia Of
discussion.
MORE NOTICES POSTED.
SCRANTON, Pa, Oct 2S-The Forest
| Mining company, at Archdale, employing
800 men, today posted notices giving the
| 10 per cent increase in wages, reducing
the price of powder to $3.50 per key, the
new price to figure in the increase to con-
tract miners and guaranteeing the in
crease to continue until April 1 next, and
thereafter until further orders. The en-
ployes of this company have been On
strike since last January.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern and the Delaware and Hudson the
Hillside Coal and Iron (the Ere) and the
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal companies,
through their general superintendent
| agreed upon an advance of 10 per cert
The same was posted at once and will
help to settle the great coal strike speed
lily.
GETTING READY TO SHIP.
WILKESBARRE, Oct. 23.-Empty coal
cars are being placed today at all the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
company's mines, and it is apparent thai
the company is preparing to mine and
ship coal. This is taken as an Indication
that the companies are getting ready for
work. General Superintendent Lathrop
of the Lehigh Valley Coal company is
said to be in New York today preparing
for resumption of coal shipments.