The evening times., 1900-10-10

louisville, Pa, Oct. 10.-Reports o
elections of local mine workers u.i1on.
keep coming in, showing that the &c =
gates viii go TO Scranton tomorrow II. y
instructed to vote against setting the
strike until more concessions are granted
Labor Leader James has no faith that
he strike viii be settled just yet. IL
would be easy for the Reading Company
miners 10 settle, but no one viii be or
dered back to work until all go ln
SHAMoKIN, Pa, Oct 10-Sirce Mon
day elections have been held in hundreds
OF locals OF the United Mine Wcrkcr., to
choose delegates for the conYeT, zion
There viii be about 200 from NCcthum-
berland, SchuyIkiIl, Columbia, ana Dau-
phin counties.
Some of the men left this region today
for Scranton. They have been instructed
from the shamokin region to vote for
semi-monthiy pay, powder to be reduced
to $3.50 per keg. and TO accept the 10 per
cent increase, providing the operators and
coal-earrying companies agree to main
tain the increase for one year.
WILKESBARRE. Pa. Oct. IO.-Rey. E.
S. Phillips. of Hazleton. who has been
prominent in his endeayor to end the
strike and who came here this morr. ng.
was asked for an authoritative staten ent
regarding the prospects Of the strike De
ing settled at the convention OF Friday.
de gave out the following statement:
THE outlook is most favorable and
highly encouraging What the delegates
uTil do EH,,isf
Scranton is more or less an uncertainty.
Mr.. Mitchell prudently gives no room for
conjecture as 10 his private views or
wishes. Ofnc!all., he announces that he
will be guided entirely by the decision of
the delegates In this, as in all his
moves, he shows excellent Judgment.
i venture the opinion that with an as
suranee of a real 10 per cent increase aad
the reduction of powder as announced.
and belief that no discrimination will
be made in regard to the me-. for rar
tieipating in the strike, the temper of
the delegates viii be favorable to a re-
sumption Of work
BY real increase in wages l refer.
more particularly. to The fact that MANY
miners are unable to see why powder and
wages cannot be considered separately
De..ss { tneir claim in this is most Just.
as the powder question. as it stands in
many places, is outrageous. when we cal
cuiate the difference in cost and profit to
the operators. Again. the 10 pei. cent in
crease should be guaranteed for some fix
ed time-say for year-eartainly beyond
the Presidential election. which mapv
think cuts prominent figure in the set
tlement''
The strikers who were employed bv the
Pennsylvania, the susquehanna. and the
Kingston Coal companies went to tho
mines early this morning in the hope that
they would find notice of a 10 per cent
increase posted but there WIS nothing.
and at the Offices of the com 3anfes the
officials said no agreement had been
reached.
large number of strikers from this
district left for Scranton this morning |
some of them marching all the way, and |
they viii take part i'll the parade there |
today.
The strikers met at many of the locals !
last night and elected delegates to the |
convention on Friday The men were in
strueted to vote for a settlement of the |
strike, providing the operators agreed to |
keep up the 10 per cent increase for a
year at least.