Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01
s. RIKE
ISOYER
Mitchell Orders Miners to
Resume Work Mon
day Morning.
Issues an Address Con-
graduating Men on
The Outcome.
Great Rejoicing In Camps
At End of Long
Struggle.

Hazleton, Oct. 26.-The following
statement was given out for publica-
ton last night by President Mitchell
of the United Mine Workers: ITO the
miners and mine workers Of the an
thracite region: After carefully can
vassing the entire strike situation we,
your officers, district and national,
have concluded your victory is so
nearly complete that no good end can
be served by. continuing the strike
longer. The contest has been in pro-
gress for thirty-nine days. The COM
panies employing you have, with few
exceptions, signifed their willingness
to pay the scale of wages formulated
by the Scranton convention of Oct. II
and IS. We are aware some disap-
pointment and dissatisfaction has
been caused by the failure Of the OPP
orators in some districts &c separate
the reduction in the price of powder
from the advance in wages, but
after careful inquiry we
are satisfied each mine en-
ploye will actually receive an
advance of ten per cent. on the wages
formerly paid. In the Schuylkil and
Lehigh regions the largest companies
have agreed that the sliding scale
should be suspended, and that wages
should remain stationary at ten per
cent until April l, 1901, thus removing
one of the iniquities Of which you have
complained many years.
"While it is true you have not Sc
cured redress for all your wrongs;
earnings does not fully compensate
you for the arduous labor you are com
PEELED to perform in the mines, you
have established a powerful organiza-
ton, which, if maintained and conduct
ed on business principles will enable
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grievances, and make your employ
ment less hazardous and more profit
able than before the strike began.
The companies agree to take up with
their mine employees all grievances
complained of. We would there
fore advise that when work
is resumed the committees be
selected by the mine employees, that
they wait upon the superintendent OF
the companies and present their griev-
aHces, in any orderly and business like
manner, and ask that they be correct
Ell. Your attention is respectfully
called to the fact that the laws Of
Pennsylvania provide that miners
should be paid semi-mOnthly, upon de
mand. We should therefore advise
each mine employe to serve notice on
the companies that he expects to be
paid his wages twice each month, as
provided by law.
LAS there are some few companies
who have neither posted, notified nor
signified in any manner their willing
ness to pay the ten 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 advance
will be paid they remain away from
the mines and continue on the strike
until the companies employing them
agree to the conditions offered by the
other companies; and the employees
Of the companies who have offered the
advance of ten per cent. ard abolished
the sliding scale, are hereby authoriz-
ed to resume work Monday morning,
Oct. %, and be prepared, if called on,
to contribute a reasonable amount of
your earnings for the maintenance of
those who may be compelled to con-
tinue on the strike"