The age-herald., 1900-10-26
Statement Issued by National
 and District Officials
NEWS WAS JOYOUsLY RECEIVED
Believed That Few Remaining Compa- nies Will Post Required Notices President Mitchell Congrat-
 ulated on the Outcome

Hazleton, Pa., October 25.-The following statement was given out tonight by Presi- dent Mitchell of the United Mine Workers:
 Temporary Headquarters,
 Limited Mine Workers of America,
 "Hazleton, Pa, October 25, 19O0 ITO the Miners and Mine Workers of the
 Anthracite Region:
 "Gentlemen After carefully canvassing the entire strike situation, we, your officers, district and national, have concluded that your victory is nearly complete that no good end can be served by continuing the. strike longer. The contest has been in progress for thirty-nine days, and the com panies employing you, with few exceptions, have signifed their willingness to pay the scale of wages demanded by the Scranton convention of October 12 and 13. We are aware that much disappointment and dis sension have been caused by the failure of the operators in Districts One and Seven to separate the reduction in price In powder from the advance in wages, but from care full inquiry we are satisfied that each mine employe will actually receive an advance of 10 per cent on the wages formerly paid. In the Schuylkill and Lehigh regions the largest companies have agreed that the sliding scale shall be suspended; and that wages should remain stationary at 10 per cent. until April l, 1901, thus removing one of the iniquities of which you have com plained for many years.
 While 1t is true that you have not se- cured redress for all your wrongs, and while it is true that the increase in your earnings will not fully compensate you for the arduous labor you are compelled to perform in the mines, you have established a permanent organizat ton which if maintained and conducted on business principles, will enable you to regulate many of your local grievances and make your employment less hazardous and more profitable than before the strike began.
 The companies agree in their notice to take up with their mine employees all griev- ances complained of. We would, therefore, advise that when work is resumed commit tees bse selected by the mine employees and that they wait upon the superintendents of the companies and present their grievances in an orderly, businesslike manner and ask that they be corrected.
 Your attention is respectfully called to the fact that the laws of the state of Penn sylvania provide that miners should be paid semi-monthly upon demand, we should therefore advise that each mine employe serve notice upon the companies that he expects to be paid his wages twice each month as provided by law.
 The practical benefits to the miners which will occur from thorough organiza- ton have been so clearly demonstrated that 1t should be needless for us to urge upon you the necessity of maintaining your union in tact. We trust, however, that those who are now members of the union will be unceasing in their efforts to induce all other mine workers to ally themselves with the United Mine Workers of America at once as 1t will be impossible to secure higher wages unless you are prepared to offer a joint resistance if any attempt Is made to reduce your earnings upon the expiration of the present offer. As there some few companies who have neither posted, notified nor signified in any other manner their willingness to pay the 10 per cent advance in wages and suspend the sliding scale we should advise that unless