The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-09-15

minatiOn Arrived at YESTERDAYS
Afternoon by Officers of United
Mine Workers to Wait no Longer.
Mitchell Will Conduct Strike.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept.12-At 5:15
this afternoon President Mitchell and
Secretary WILSON of the United Mine
Workers of America affixed their sig
natures to the document which will call
$4,000 miners of the Pennsylvania an
thracite region from their work Monday
morning and precipitate one of the
most gigantic strikes in the history of
the labor world. The document was
the official Endorsement of the request
of the anthracite districts to strike.
1t was considered by the executive
board last week and when the board
adjourned all power to indorse the re-
quest for the strike was left in the
hands of the president and the secre-
'tary.
Following IL the Order
to strike issued to anthracite miners
by President Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers, at o'clock:
''Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. II, 1900.-To
the officers and members of the
United Mine Workers of America and
all other miners and mine workers of
the anthracite region of Pennsylvania:
Greeting:
AT a convention of the miners and
mine workers Of the anthracite coal
1900, a resolution was adopted asking
the national executive board of the
United Mine Workers Of America to
endorse a proposition for a strike for
the miners and mine workers Of the
anthracite region in accordance with
the laws Of our organization providing
certain wages and conditions were not
granted by the coal companies within
ten days.
The National Executive Board
was called together for the purpose Of
considering the situation and after
careful examination Of all facts in it's
possession, it's members were unani-
mously Of the opinion that a strike
should be ordered at once, and our
hopes of improved conditions staked
upon the outcome. During the after
noon of Saturday, Sept. s, while the
board was still in session, information
reached this office that outside influ-
ences were being brought to bear upon
the coal companies to bring about
1 Satisfactory Settlement
Of the questions in one of the most
common methods used by large en-
ployers to destroy the public SYM
pathy and defeat our cause. With a
thoroughly aroused public sentiment
behind us; a cause the justice of which
cannot be questioned and the mine
stand until their many wrongs have
been righted, we have supreme faith
in the ultimate success Of our cause.
do not wait for any further notice
to strike but cease work in body on
and after Monday, Sept. II, 1900.
by order of the executive board.
g. JOHN MITCHELL - J.:
~ President.
W. B. WILSON,
Secretary treasurer United Mine Work
ers of America.
Both Were Nervous.
This afternoon President Mitchell
and Secretary Wilson sat in the head
quarters. Both were nervous They
opened kilograms from the different
anthracite regions with feverish haste,
thinking as they said, each message
might be some concession from the
operators that would prevent the strike
The district presidents reported that
Of the $4,000 men in the three districts
1874, 500 would go on strike Monday.
President Mitchell would not state
what secret influences were at work to
prevent the strike and which caused
the delay. He said the person at work
had offered his services voluntarily
and the matter was confidential.
A. to Maintaining the Men
during the strike he said:
when men are fighting for just
wages they can subsist on very little.
At any rate it is safe to say that no
one will starve or want for necessary
clothing. Most of the men live in COM
pany houses and we must consider the
PROBABILITY of eviction. But this will
be met
President Mitchell will leave Saturday
for Hazelton, Pa, to personally con-
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