Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-23
1t May Delay Settlement of
the Anthracite Miners
Strike.
NOTICES ARE AMENDED,
Goal Companies Say Reduction Of
Powder Is to Be Considered in Ar.
irving at Wages of Their Contract
Mines.

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Scranton, Pa, Oct. 19.--Representa.
tives of nearly all the big coal compa-
MES conferred here yesterday and
made an agreement to amend the no.
tees already posted by attaching the
following:
In further explanation of the above
notice, this company desires to say
Its intention is to pay the advance in
wages above noted until April /, 1901,
and thereafter until further notice."
The following statement was issued
to the press:
The representatives of the larger
coal companies, after their meeting
Wednesday afternoon, stated in reply
to Inquiries that they had offered their
men 10 per cent advance, as indicat-
ed By the notices cAey posted; that
this notice specifically stated the re-
duction Of powder from SITS to $1.50
would be considered in arriving at the
wages of their contract mines. It
was expected when the notices were
posted the offer was to stand until
April /, and indefinitely thereafter, but
inasmuch as there seems to be some
misunderstanding in this matter, they
Lave agreed to add to their notice a
clause to the effect that it is their in
tention to pay the advance in wages
until April /, 1901, and thereafter until
further notice."
Miners Views Are Different.
National President Mitchell and Dis.
trict President and Organizer Dilcher,
of the United Mine Workers, have all
been quoted as saying that the resolu.
lions of the Scranton convention con-
templated straight advance of 10 per
cent for all parts of the region, and
that the matter of having this increase
made up in part of the decrease in the
cost of powder in these upper regions
where powdr is sold for $275 a key,
was not to be agreed to. The powder
question, they said, was left out of the
present negotiations, with the under.
standing that 1t should form one of the
grievances to be adjusted in the con.
ferences which, the offer says, the op.
orators agree to have with their men
to take up any grievances they may
have"
Mitchell Is Reticent.
President Mitchell when informed
by telephone of the action of the oper-
ators, stated that he would have to de-
cline to discuss it's probable effect re.
garding the settlement until he had
given the matter careful considera.
ton. He would not say whether or
not it would be possible to deal with
the difficulty without calling another
convention.
Strikers Close a MarkIe Mine.
Hazleton, Oct. 19.-About 500 strik-
ers made descent on No. Jeddo
mine of Markle G Co., at Oakdale this
morning. They claim they shut the
colliery up but Markle says the mine
is still working. The march was well
planned, and kept strict secret
There was force of sheriffs deputies
on duty but they kept in the back
ground. No one was seriously hurt,
tho one man going to work was set up
on by the strikers and beaten and 9th
ers menaced. After marching up and
down the road until 1880 O'Clock the
. marchers dispersed to their homes.
Prepare to Open Mines.
Shamokin, Oct. 19.-Preparations
are being made by the Reading Miner
/ al and Union Coal companies for an
early resumption of work at their col
lieries. Engineers and firemen have