The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-29
TIE END SEEMS IN SIGHT |
FROM PRESENT INDICATIONS THE
STRIKING MINERS WILL RE-
TURN TO WORK
AT A TEN PER CENT ADVANCE
Anthracite IN New York City Drops
From FIFTY to seventy
Five Cents Per
Ton.

NEW YORK, Sept 2S.-The Herald to-
morrow, will say: One of the men who
have participated in the plans for the
settlement of the coal miners strike, and
is familiar with all the facts and attend
ant circumstances, said in an interview
last night:
The -rurnors that negotiations looking to
a settlement of the strike are off, is UNI
true. My belief is that the strike will
come to an end early next week. 1t will
not be ended by a blare of trumpets or
by sweeping general order, but by the
men quitely going to work in colliery
after colliery, day after day, at the 10
per cent advance There is no inclination
to recognize Mitchell in any way, but
as a matter of fact the miners really de-
serve the 10 per cent advance, and they
probably would have obtained 1t anyhow,
when the question first came up, IL SO
many of the members of the different
boards of directors of the mining com
panies had not been away on their yaea-
TONS
Prices for anthracite coal in this city
have today dreppeas fifty or seventy-flve
cents per ton, indicating that the end Is
IN sight, and the rush of the retailers to
buy from the wholesalers is almost en-
tirely stopped.
NO CHAN AT HAZLETON.
HAZLETON, Pa, Sept 28-Notwith-
standing the runners of settlement and
eoncess. ens on the part of the mine own
ers, there was no change in the great
strike situation today. 1t was probably
the most active day President Mitchell
and his official staff have spent since the
strike set in. That President Mitchell
was waiting for Information from New
York cannot be denied as he fntimated
several times during the day that some
thing might develop before night. In the
forenoon he had two lengthy eonversa-
tons over the long distance telephone,
and between and O'Clock this after
noon he was at the wire for over half
an hour. To whom he talked he declined
to say. When he was pressed to say
something on the general strike situa-
ton he said:
This has been the greatest Industrial
contest between labor and capital In the
history Of America. If the 10 per cent
increase mentioned in the newspapers is
correct, while far from satisfactory 1t is
the greatest victory ever achieved by
organized labor, and won under the most
adverse circumstances. /. of course, have
nothing to say as to what action will be
taken as to the acceptance or rejection
of any proposition: that must be deter
mined by the whole body of anthracite
miners themselves. Our organization will
not make the mistake which has wrecked
many other erganizau lions of assuming
the power to determine through It's Off
GERS the happiness or misery the veal
or woe of the 650,eeo men, women and
children dependent upon the anthracite
coal industry for q livelihood"
In discussing the reported 10 per cent
advance offered the men by the mine
owners Mr.. Mitchell said;
Under the sliding scale, the advance
would practically aneHnt to nothing.
What the men would gain in one day
they would lose the next"
What is meant as the sliding scale is
that wages are fixed by the market price
of coal. If there is an advance. in. the
selling price the miners share in It. and
if there should be a decrease the miners
cerrespendingly share such decrease.
WON'T RECOGNIZE UNION
If an increase Of 10 per cent in wages
is offered the miners. 1t probably will be
done by means of posted notices and the
personal visitation OF representatives of
the mine owners. and not to the United
Mine Workers, because the operators say
they will never recognize the erganiza-
ton. If the men SO informed desire to
consider the proposition, they would have
meeting of their local union called for
the purpose of having the officers of
those bodies notify the three district
presidents. These presidents would In
form the national president AS Mr.
Mitchell is not empowered to accept any
thing less than all the miners demanded.
he could do nothing but instruct the men
to refuse the offer. If the strikers should
still feel that they ought to entertain the
proposition, they can ask the national
president, through g. local union meeting
and then a district convention, to call q
joint convention for the three districts
| The request, however, would not be COM
pulsory, the national president being al
lowed to use his Judgment
The demands Of the men were fixed by
a joint convention of the three districts.
They cannot accept anything less than
these demands without a two-thirds vote
| of the three districts in joint convention.
! which alone control any question con-
| corning the strike. The laborers here
/ say. they feel that the union and non
union men will stand out against the
reported offer of 10 per cent.
Quietness continues to prevail through
| out the whole Lehigh valley region The
]. s. Wentz & Co. colliery, at Hazelbrook.
| shut down today, a body of 100 men hay-
ing marched from Freeland to that place
| and induced the men working in the
Wentz colIiery to quit
A large parade of miners from the sur
rounding towns was to have been held at
/ Hazleton tomorrow, but the mayor re-
fuses to permit 1t to take place. He would
| give no reason, but a general desire ia
preserve order is ascribed as the cause.
AT WILKESBARRE