The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-26
STRIKE Is DECLARED OFF
PRESIDENT MITCHLLL GIVES OUT
IN OFFICI4L NOTICE,
Men Employed by the Companies That
and Abolished the Sliding Scale Au-
thortzed to Return to Work Monday
Fight to be Continued Only Against
the Few Companies That Have Not
Given Any Advance.

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the Few Companies That Have Not
Given Any Advance.
Hazleton, Pa, Oct. 25.-The following
statement was given out for publication
tonight by President Mitchell of the
United Mine Workers;
| Temporary Headquarters, United
| Mine Workers of America.
"Hazleton, Pa, Oct. 25, 1900.
ITO the Miners and Mine Workers of
the Anthracite Region:
"Gentlemen--After carefully canvass
| ing the entire strike situation, we, your
| officers, district and national, have
concluded that your victory Is so COM
plete that no good end can be served
by continuing the strike longer. The
contest has been In progress for thirty
nine days and the companies employ
ing you have, with few exceptions, sig
nified their willingness to pay the scale
of wages formulated by the Scranton
convention of October IL and 13.
1--WE are aware that some disappont-
ment and dissatisfaction has been
caused by the failure of the operators
duction in the price of powder from the
advance in wages, but after careful in
quiry we are satisfied that each mine
employe will actually receive an ad-
vance of 10 per cent. on the wages for
merly paid, In the Schuylkill and Le-
high regions the largest companies
have agreed that the sliding scale
should be suspended; and that wages
should remain stationary at 10 per cent.
until April /, 1901; thus removing one
of the iniquities of which you have
complained for many years.
"While it is true that you have not
secured redress for all of your wrongs;
while 1t is true that the increase in
your earnings will not fully compen-
safe you for the arduous labor you are
compelled to perform in the mines, you
have established a powerful organiza-
tion, which if maintained and con-
Quoted on business principles will ena-
BILE you to regulate many of your local
grievances and make your employment
less hazardous and more profitable than
before the strike began.
1.-THE companies agree, in their no.
tices, to take up with their mine en-
would therefore advise that when work |
is resumed committees be selected by
the mine employees and that they wait |
upon the superintendents of the COM |
panies and present their grievances In |
an orderly, business-like manner and I
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; we should therefore advise that
each mine employe serve notice on the
that he expects to be paid
his wages twice each month, as pro-
vided by law
"The practical benefits to the miners
which accrue from thorough organiza-
lion have been so clearly demonstrated
Turing this strike that it should be
needless for us to urge upon you the
necessity Of maintaining your union
intact We trust however, that those
Who are now members of the union
will be unceasing in their efforts to in
luce all other mine workers to ally
themselves with the United Mine
Workers of America at once as it will
L.
wages in the future or even to main
ain the present rate of wages unless
'ou are prepared to offer a united re-
distance If any attempt is made to re-
luce your earnings upon the expiration
f the present offer.
"As there are some few companies
Who have neither posted, notified, nor
ignitied in any other manner their will
ingness to pay the 10 per cent ad-
ance in wages and suspend the sliding
Gale, we would advise that unless the
nen employed by such companies re-
Give notice before Monday that the ad-
ance will be paid they remain away J.,
rom the mines and continue on strike
ntil the companies employing them ,,
gree to the conditions offered by the
ther companies; and the employees OF
ne companies who have offered the ad-
ance of 10 per cent. and abolished the
iding scale are hereby authorized to :.
esume work Monday morning, October
}, and to be prepared. If called upon,
} contribute a reasonable amount of ;
our earnings for the maintenance Of I
nose who may be compelled to con-
nue. on strike"