Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-01


Temporary Headquarters.
United Mine Workers of America,
"Hazleton, Pa, Oct. 25, 1900.
TO the Miners and Mine Workers of
the Anthracite Region:
Gentlemen-After carefully can-
vassing the entire strike situation,
we, your officers, district and nation
al, have concluded that your victory
is so nearly complete that no good
end can be conserved by continuing
h strike longer. The contest has
been in progress for 80 days and the
companies employing you have, with
few exceptions, signified their will
ingness to pay the scale of wages
formulated by the Scranton commit
tee of October IL and Is.
Some disappointment Expected.
W are aware that some disap-
pointment and ~dissension has been
caused by the failure of the Opera-
tors in Districts 1 and z to separate
the reduction in the price of powder
from the advance in wages, but after
careful inquiry we are satisfied that
each mine employee will actually re-
ceive an advance of ten per cent. on
the wages formerly plid. In h
Schuylkin and Lehigh regions the
largest companies have agreed that
the sliding scale should be suspended,
and hat wages should remain sta
tionary at ten per cent. adFIuc" until
April 1, 1900; thus removing one of
the iniquities of which yen have COM
planned for many yeIrJ.
Wrongs Yet UnredreSseG.
"While IT is true that YOU I'VE not
secured redress for all your wrongs;
while it is true that the increase IN
your earnings will not fully conIPeL-
safe you for the arducus labor you are
compelled TO perform, you have es-
tablished a powerful organization,
which, if maintained and conducted
on business principles, will enable You
to regulate many of your local grew
ances and make your employment less
hazardous and mere profitable than
before tie strike BEGAN
Agree to Consider Grievances.
THE companies gree in their no.
tees, to take up with their mine en-
Ployes all grievances complained of.
We woaId, therefore, advise that when
work is resumed, committees be Sc
lected by the mine employees, and that
they wait upon the superintendent
of the companies and present their
grievances in an orderly, business-like
manner, and ask hat they be correct
ed.
Seni-MonthIy Payments.
Your attention is respectfully
called to the fact that the laws Of the
state of Pennsylvania provide tina
miners should be paid semi-monthly,
upon demand; we should, therefore.
advise that each mine employee serve
notice on the companies that he en-
poets TO be paid his wages twice each
month, as provided by law.
Benefits of Organization.
"The practical benefits to the mi
ners which accrue from thorough or
ga~niZation have been so clearly DEM
onstrated during this strike, that it
should be needless for us to urge upon
you the necessity of maintaining Your
union intact. We trust, however, that
those who are now members of the
union will be ~unceasing in their eff
forts to induce all other mine work
4 ~ 0AAH With 1LC CILI-
ed Mine Workers of America ~ once,
as it will be impossible for you to Sc
cure higher wages in the future or
even to maintain the present rate of
wages, unless you are prepared to of
fer q united resistance, if any at
tempt is made to reduce your earn
ings upon the expiration of the pres
ent offer.
Must support Those Still Idle.
\ there are some few companies
who have neither posted, notified nor
signified, in any other manner, their
willingness to pay the ten per cent.
advance in wages and suspend the
sliding scale, we would advise that ur-
less the men employed by such COM
panies receive notice before Monday
hat the advance will be paid, they
remain away from the mines and
continue on strike until the COM
panies employing them agree to the
conditions offered by the companies;
and that the employees of the COM
panies who have offered the advance
often per cent. and abolished the slid
ing scale are hereby authorized to re-
sumo work Monday morning, October
%, and to be prepared, if called on,
to contribute a reasonable moun of
your earnings for the maintenance of
those who may be compelled to con-
tinue on strike.
JOHN MITCHELL, President.
"And a long list of official signtures."
international Metaphysical
New York, Oct. 26.-The second an
nual meeting of the International
Metaphysical league was continued
yesterday. The sitting was described
as "a social session" There was .
large attendance. Mrs. Annie Xix
M1Iitz, of Chicago, presided, and there
were readings by Mrs. Lucia Gale Bar
ber, of Boston, and Miss Grace Car
roll, of Brooklyn, and musical selee-
tions by Miss Eva Vescehus, of New
ark; Mrs. Grace Hyde Urine, of Bos-
ton, and Mrs. J. ID. Grant, of New
York.
Convicted of Murder
Philadelphia, Oct. 26.-Henry Ivory
colored, charged with completely in