The sun., 1900-10-09
STRIKING MINERS
WILL MEET At
SCRANTON FRIDAY
Formal Call for a Convention
Issued by President
Mitchell.
MINERS OF THREE DISTRICTS
Music Hall, in scranton, Has Been
Selected as the Place Where
the Deliberations OF the
Anthracite 1Tcn VIII
Talse Place.

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Mitchell has issutd 1 e5ll for 4 eoavea-
zion 81 miro woheaa of tAe tllca ii;-
triets comprising taa anthracite feil lo
mtct IA Scranton III Rfday nest Ghe
ta..a II the convention call u as falle#s:
"Tcaparuy Ia3ieual4es iA.tal Mine
Voorhees, Eslleiaa, NJ. 2t $50 Ali
Mine 69laars aHd Gar 1snl5Ee4a ~
the Anthracite RceioN. Hlataa a pte@
of the fasf ta8l tItr 0ia operators t2aye
posted notices 0.iu @ HI yaneG N
wagGs #ime.y pl4 la& lah4ving ! ta
he 5nr plain luf% iQ yelr WisAes
as ta o.u tuGure Gai@a ST. dnm il al-
rsalla t1 aal vau "A . delegates to
represent Eoa ii convention.
You asa therefore aaHid that 4 CON
verti0n Hll he hela At Scranton pa.,
bceinniag E'faiaS aei. i2a at ia i. ~.
stihc li8ia al Representation Will he
one yote Eor each 100 persons an strike
81, ii desitrd one aal 2ata naN epre-
semi a- naiiy is al3 mine workers, Init
no dloe.le Hill hr allowed III elat more
than iiYo votes.
tF.ach delaease should have credentials
siraal ly tlle chairman and secretary of
tha meeIing ii which he II elected, and
wherever possible credentials should car
tAo aaal Of the local anion.
"ioln Mitchell, president United Nine
Naakcus &C Amcrica; 4. D. Nichols,
bid .lent District M. 4 Thomas Duffy,
president District M. Z; Ioln i'ahy,
president District No. Q.
''N. E-nelogatos will 10 notified Of
The hall IN which the convention wild be
held upon their arrival III Scranton"
no 1Ieet In Music Rail.
After The call had been issued II was
learned Chat the convention viii bc held
III liusic hall.
President Mitchell refused to say any
tliA- as to what lbc convention world
probably decide to G6 III Tile matter of
the 10 per cert net increase. Neither
Wa,ld he anticipate what business, other
than thar relating 10 The advance IN
wages, would be brought before the dele
gates.
It is not unlikely that the adjustment
uf the Sliding scale viii come iii for some
consideration. None &c the labor leaders
here will publicly say whether the in
crease will he accepted or rejected, but
there II a strong belief that the men in
convention will vote TO 10 back to work.
Now that the convention is a certain
~, there Is feeling OF relief in the
entire region, and il is confidently ex-
pectod that n week will see the mine
workers going back 10 the mines.
President Mitchell will call the conven-
ton TO order and will preside over its
sessions. The secretaries will be elected
hN the delegates, and it is almost certain
that the convention will vote that all of
IFS SnSeipne shall ba - t.,
the meantime the labor leaders say their
efforts to close up the mines still in oper-
alton will go on.
Notices Of 10 per cent advance in
wages and reduction in the price of
powder were posted by NJ. S. Kemmerer
Co., operating the Sandy Run col
llery, and Coke Bros. & Co.. operating
siN collerics. The notices are similar to
those put UP by the other companies last
week.
80 Offers by Four Companies.
q. Il. Marlilc & Co.. Calvin pardee &
Co., Dodson & Co. and the Silver Brook
Coal company are the only companies
hereabout that have not vet offered their
men an increase. These four concerns
normally employ upward of 1000 men.
IL anticipation of marching by the
strikers, every one of the dozen or more
collicries in this district still in operation
N u more Or less crippled condition was
virtually an armed camp during the
night, but the expected did not happen,
and the peace of the community remains
Hndsturhed.
1t was the uneasiest day that Hazleton
has experienced since the strike began
three weeks ago. III addition to the con
ccntration of sheriff's deputies in this
city every colliery in the region had ex-
ira forces Of Coal and Iron police, fully
armed.
There was no marching of large bodies
of men, but crowds OF strikers gathered,
as is their custom every weekday morn
ing, in tile vicinity Of the various col
lielies that remain i'll operation. The
greatest crowd, which numbered proba-
hly 800 men, assembled in the neighbor-
hood Of the Cranberry colliery of 4. Par
dee y Co., on the outskirts of this city.
Quite Il number OF the workmen, on
their way to this mine, were turned
back, some through fear and others
through persuasion. The company off
cials say the collicry is working as usual.
Another crowd gathered in the vicinity
OF NJ. 3 slope and No. 10 shaft of the
Lellish Valley Coal company in Halle
ton, but no disturbance occurred. The
Indictment weather probably had much
TO do with the pacific condition of ar
fairs. It rGined hard during the night,
and heavy mist hung over the entire
region ali day.
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