The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-10-06
ANOTHER CONCESSION
BY MINE OPERATORS
Decide to Meet Demand Of Miners
in Regard 10 Price Of
Powder.
ARE NO SIGNS OF ACCEPTANCE
Few of9the Striking Miners RctnrI
TO Work-.-Trcsidcnt Mitchell
Confident of the OMl-

& AA1AAaNGipL1u, OSl, sS.--1LG liiiLiS op-
orators of Wyoming, LucKawnnna and
Lehigh regions ut a meeting ut
W~ilkesbarre followed the action of the
Reading company, offering an increase
of 10 per cent in wages to the mine
to reduce the charge for powder from
has prevailed at the Reading company
mines for a long time.
The action of the Wilkesbarre meet.
ing means an increase of 10 per cent
to all NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. miners. The
latter will earn an increase of about
40 per cent by reason of the reduced
cost of powder.
The meeting was attended by rep
resentatives of the leading railway
companies which own mines III the re.
gions named. Some of The independ.
ent operators oppose the increase un.
less the coal carrying companies re,
duce the tolls on their product to tide
water.
The strikers, however, show no in
dication of accepting the offer. None
returned to work at the Read.
ing company's5collicries in response tic
the notice of higher wages, and in fact
many who had been ut work there
quit and joined tile ranks of the strill.
ers. As a result there we're fewer col
@lieries in operation in the Schuyl.
kill region that ut any time since the
strike was i~naugurated.
In the other regions there was also
additions to the strikers forces.
Notices of the increase III pay were
posted throughout the entire region
last night, but the opinion is general
that few if any strikers Will return tG
work.
The strikers say they have othcl
grievances to be adjusted besides
wages and powder charges, md they
further say they want recognition Of
their union.
President Mitchell of the UniteG
Mine Workers will visit W~ilkesbarre
tomorrow to address Il mass meeting
and review u parade of miners.
The strikers say that under no cir
~cumstanccs will they accept the offer.
They claim it is not as good an offer
as the Reading company made to It's
men.
The union is ignored and the net in
crease must ONT out of the price OF
powder. f. NJ. Palmer, chairman OF
the of the press committee at United
Mine Workers headquarters, said:
The men will not return to work
under such conditions. 1t is not a
fair offer"
The operators will make no further
move until they hear from the men.
Few Return to Work. )
Hazelton, Pa, Oct. 3.--Notwith.
standing the notices posted by the
mine owners at various collieries
throughout the anthracite regions few
if any striking miners went to WORK
this morning,Athe situation being prac-
tically unchanged in the Lackawanna;
Wyoming, Shenandoah and Shamolsip
districts. In the Hazleton district the
only change is in favor of the strikers
Early this morning 400 strikers
marched from Freeland and this place
to the Pardee coilieries, ut baltimore
five miles from here. The marchers
visited the homes of non-strikers.
quietly asking them to refrain from
continuing work. There was no dis
order of any kind. The strikers claim
to have succeeded in inducing 400 men
to quit work, but the company Off
cials say they did not lose that large
a number. The only other collicry
where any nsticeable change occurred
was Pardee & Co.'S Mt Cfandery, where
some "lokie" engineers and driver
boys struck, thus further crippling
the working. According to an official
report the Reading company has but
seven Of its thirty-nine collierics
working today. This is u few less
than Saturday.
President Mitchell is very much
pleased over the situation. lie said
the action of the men justified his
faith in them, and called attention to
the v%erification of his prediction that
the posting of the offer OF an advance
would have no effect on the strike, us
the men had other grievances that
must be adjusted.
President Mitchell at noon said:
"The strike is practically complete
and there will be. no resumption OF
work without there first being a con
yention representing every coliiery in
the anthracite field. Our reports from
Panther creek valley indicate that this
heretofore impregnlbIe position iii the
anthracite region will declare its in.
tention OF %suspending operations at
once.
Accompanied by national board
members l shall go to Wilkesbarre to-
morrow 10 attend Il great labor dem.
onstration which will be participated
in by fully $4,000 men,