The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-22
PROLONGATION OF STRIKE
ITCITELL PLACES RESPONSIBTLI-
TY ON THE OPERATORS.

Only Companies Producing About
sixty-tive Per Cent. of the Output in
the Anthracite Region Have Thus Far
Guaranteed the Wnge Advancc-De-
cIares There VIII be No Break In
Miners Ranks.
Hazleton, Pa, Oct. 21.-When Presi-
dent Mitchell of the United Mine Work
ers was asked tonight by representa-
tive of the Associated Press what he
had to say in regard to a settlement of
the coal miners strike he said:
"As there appears to be some dlsposi-
tion on the part of the public to place
the responsibility for the prolongation
of the strike on the shoulders of the
mine workers, speaking for them L
want to say that when the Scranton
convention accepted the ten per cent.
advance in wages, providing the opera
tors abolished the sliding scale and
guaranteed the payment of the advance
until April 1, the miners had met the
! operators more than l. tH way. They
know of no good reason why the prop
osition should not have been accepted
by the operators.
LAS consequence the responsibility
for the continuation of the strike rests
solely upon the failure of the operators
to treat the proposition of their en-
ployes considerably. The public should
understand that, unsatisfactory as is
the proposition of the operate who
make the reduction In the price of pow
der a part of the advance Of ten per
cent, even this proposition has not been
offered by very large number Of the
coal-producng companies in the an
thracite region and until all companies
guarantee the payment of the ten per
cent. advance above the rate of wages
paid in September until April l, ac-
cordinp to the decision of the Scranton
convention the miners are powerless to
act I want to repeat again that there
can be no partial sectional settlement
of this strike.
",rhe large companies in the Lehigh
region that have refused to move at all
since the Scranton convention was held
are Coke Bros. & Co., the largest coal
producers in the Lehigh region; G. p.
Markle & Co., the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre company, the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation company and a large num-
ber of smaller companies. There Is also
a considerable number of coal compa-
MES in the Lackawanna and Wyoming
regions that have not guaranteed the
payment of the 10 per cent. advance I'M
til April l. The only district that has
accepted the terms of the Scranton
convention in full is No. 8, better known
as the Schuylkill district.
Companies which produce about 65
per cent. of the total production of the
anthracite coal fields, have guaranteed
the payment of the 10 per cent. advance
and have abolished the sliding scale"
When Mr.. Mitchell was asked what
he would do If all the companies were
have posted notices than /
will have something to say"
When it was suggested that there
might be a break In the ranks of the
strikers If the contest should continue
much longer, he said that not one man
would go back to the mines until they
shall have been officially notified to re-
turn.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 21-The gem
eral belief here Is that the coming week
will see the wind up Of the strike. The
strikers do not admit this openly, but
It Is the feeling that the lockout cannot
be continued much longer Both sides
are expected to make concessions.