New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-09-12
IIERS WILL GDD|n
sgoregone Conviction That Strike 81
Anthracite Region Will
Be Declared.
MINERS OFFICIALS II CONFERENCE

/
MINERS OFFICIALS IN CONFERENCE.
Strong Efforts ut HaxletOn, Pa, to
/ Get Operators to Confer with the
Un MI - Refuse to Treat with Any
hut Their own Men hitter Fight
| Ahead. 81 :sss5
i Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 10 The
executive board Of the United Mine
/ Workers of America went into secret
session here at $50 Saturday morn
] ing Before closing the doors Pres
ident Mitchell said No statement
would be Forthcoming before noon,
| and perhaps not then. It is foregone
that a strike in the anthracite region
will be declared. E.
/ The national board Of the United
! Mine Workers resumed its closed ses-
t sion at $50 O'Clock in the morning in
the Stevenson building. Before the
| meeting the beard members said that
the situatiua had not changed during
the night. 10 disposition has been
manifested by the operators to meet
any of the demands made by the min
E,ers through either the national Off
GERS or the district officers in the an
thacite region. ssr@ < -f LIN .3fE"
f The presidents of districts Mol, Z
and 9-all anthracite-are at Halle
ton, Pa, the center of the field, and
SO far as is known in Indianapolis no
answer toHthe appeal issued Friday
night by these three presidents :
Thomas D. Nichols, John Fal1ey and
Thomas Duffey-has been made by the
operators. 80 .@.. .st. H..
/ The utmost secrecy attended ssthe
board meeting. The board members
ridicule the stories in circulation that
a lobby of business men from the east
has been in indianapolis, trying to
eprevent a strike order. Nobody has
! called on the board for such a pur-
| pose. ..s....
. VIII Take Care OF the Men.
''We will certainly issue the order
for general strike, and the country
may as wellbe satisfied with this ste4s-
ment," said one of the board nAm-
bers. eve care little what the oKzaC-
ators have to say as to the impending
distress in the Wyoming or other vsE-
leys. We are running things from In
! sdianapolis now. The statement that
there will be great distress does not
worry us; we will take care of OUT
men if they go on strike, and will not
ask the operators for any financial
aid"
Seek Settlement of Dihie ufty.
Hazleton, Pa, Sept. 1O.-EfoFts an
still being made here to bring about
settlement of the impending sfy3ke.
John Fahey and Thomas Duffey, mem
| bers of the executive board of thu
three anthracite. mining districts, ara
in conference behind closed doors with
Father Phillips, but they have moth
ing to give out for publication
Father Maloy, of Audenried, and Gen
eral Superintendent Richards and Di-
vision Superintendent Hadesty, of the
| Lehigh & Wilkesbarre coal company
| held four-hours' consultation, but
they refused absolutely to say what
| had been done.
To Fight to Bitter End.
1t was learned later that Father
Maloy urged upon Lehigh & Wilkes
| barre officials the desirabilitW OF
| comforting with the United Mine
Workers, but General Manager Rich
ards refused to accept any such pro.
posal The company will deal only
| with its own men. The United Mine
Workers are said to be well organized
! at the golfers controlled by this com.
pany. The refusal of the Lehi&h q
Wilkesbarre company to recognize the
Mine Workers, with whose committees
the officials conferred frequently dur
! ing the strike here thnee years age
and through whom the .tfoaHble al
Audenrid and Honey Brook was set
tied, 10 taken as an indication THAI
| the operators are now determined to
! oppose the union to the bitter end.
Arrested for Old Murder.
| Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Sept. TO-