Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-01
MINERS STRIKE is ENDED
officers of the Timers Issue an Ad.
dress to Workers.

Ha=leton, Pa, Oct. 26.-The follow
ing statement was given out for pub
LEGATION tonight by President Mitchell
of the union of mine workers of
| America:
! ITO the Miners and Mine Workers
! Of the Anthracite Region: After care
fully canvassing the entire strike sit
uaticn we, your officers, district and
national, have concluded that your
victory is so nearly complete that no
| good can be served by continuing the
strike longer. The contest has been
in progress for thirty-nine days and
the companies employing you have,
! with few exceptions, signified their
| Willingness to pay the scale of wages
formulated by the Scranton conven-
| ton of October IL and 10. We are
aware that some disappointment and
| dissatisfaction has been caused by the
failure of operators in districts l and
to separate the reduction in the
price of powder from the advance in
| wages, but after careful inquiry we
are satisfied that each mine emplo v
| will actually receive an advance of 10
per cent on the wages formerly paid.
In the Schuylkill and the Lehigh re-
| glons the largest companies have
agreed that the sliding scale should
be suspended; and that wages should
| remain stationary at 10 per cent until
April 1 1901, thus removing one of
the iniquities of which you have COM
planned for many years.
While it is true that you have not
secured redress for all your wrongs.
while it is true that the increase in
your earnings will not fully compen-
| safe you for the arduous labor you
are compelled to perform, you have
established a powerful organization
which, if maintained and conducted
on business principles, will enable you
TO regulate many of your local griey-
ahces and make your employment less
hazardous and more profitable than
before the strike began.
The companies agree i'm their no.
tices, to take up with their mine en-
ployes all grievances complained of.
We would, therefore, advise that
when work is resumed committees be
selected by the mine employees and
that they wait upon the superinten-
dents of the companies and present
their grievances, in orderly. business
like manner, and ask that they be
corrected.
Your attention is respectfully called
to the fact that the laws of the state
of Pennsylvania provide that miners
should be paid semi-monthly upon de-
mand. and we should therefore adj
wise that each mine employee should
serve notice upon the companies that
he expects to be paid his wages twice
each month, as provided by law.
The special benefits to the miners
which accrue from thorough organi-
cation have been so clearly demon
strated during this strike that it
should be needless for us to urge upon
you the necessity of maintaining
your union intact. We trust, how
ever, that those who are now mem
bers of the union will be unceasing
in their efforts to induce all other
mine workers to ally themselves with
the United Mine Workers of America
at once, as it will be impossible for
YOU to secure higher wages. in the
future, or even to maintain the pres
ent rate of wages. unless YOU are
NV GU W o1tI Il ulllleU resistance
if any attempt is made to reduce your
earnings upon the expiration of the
present offer.
As there are some few companies
who have not posted. notified or sig
nified, in any manner. their willing
ness to pay the 10 per cent advance in
wages and suspend the sliding scale.
we would advise that unless the men
employed by such companies receive
notice before Monday that the adj
vance will be paid they remain away
from the mines and continue on strike
until the companies employing them
agree to the conditions accepted by
the other companies, and that the
employees of the companies who have
offered the advance of 10 per cent and
abolished the sliding scale are hereby
authorized to resume work Monday
morning. October 20. and to be pre-
pared, if called upon to contribute a
reasonable amount of your earnings
for the miners who are continuing
on strike.