River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-10-11
CONVENTION CALLED.
President Mitchell Issues Prociama-
ton 10 the Mine workers
May End the strike.


Hazleton. Pa, Oct. .9.-President
Mitchell at lO:05 a. m. issued a call for
! a convention of mine workers of the
three districts comprising the anthra-
cite field, to met in Scranton, Pa, on
Friday next.
The text of the convention call is as
follows:
Temporary Headquarters United Mine
| Workers, Hazleton Pa, Oct So all
miners ard mine employees Of the anthra-
cite region:
Brothers: In view OF the fact that the
mine operators have posted notices offering
| an advance in wages formerly paid ard
| believing IL to be our plain duty 10 consult
your wishes as 10 our future action, we
| deem 1t advisable TO ask you TO select dele
gates to represent you in convention
You are therefore notified that con-
| vention will be held at Scranton. Pa. be-
ginning Friday. October u. at ten a. m
THE basis of representation will be one
vote for each 100 persons on strike, OF II oe-
| sired one delegate may represent as many
| as 500 mine-workers but no delegate VIII
| be allowed to cast more than I'VE votes
Each delegate should have credentials
| signed by the chairman and secretary OF
| the meeting al which he is elected; ana
| whenever possible credentials should pear
the seal of the local union.
| (Signed)
/ JOHN MITCHELL. President United
| Mine Workers OF America.
| ''T. d. NICHOLS. President DISTRICT
THOMAS DUFFY. President District
| JOHN FAHY. President District No. g.
IN. B.-Delegates will be notified of the
| hall in which the convention will be held
upon their arrival in Scranton.
Hazleton. Pa. Oct. 5.-An uprising Of
striking miners in the Shamokin re-
gion seemed imminent for several
hours late Thursday and there were
| forebodings of serious clash between
armed deputies and large body OF
strikers Prompt action of some of the
cool-headed officia IS of the miners or
ganization finally succeeded in avert
ing the threatened conflict. Some 5000
excited strikers assembled at Mount
Carmel, and headed by band of music
started to march to Treverton, 10 miles
away, with the avowed purpose of for
cling those a. work at the North Frank
lin colliery to quit and join in the strike.
| This was the only mine in operation in
the region, and the strikers had become
angered at the refusal of the men there
to stop work. The marchers were in
an excited and wrathful frame of mind.
When they had covered three miles of
their march they were met by officials
of their organization. who after much
persuasion induced the men to aban-
don their proposed trip. The strikers
then turned back, though many did
so reluctantly. Later it was an
nounced that the officials of the North
Franklin to prevent trouble kould not
operate the mine until the strike was
settled.
With a cessation of operations at the
North Franklin all of the Philadelphia
& Reading company's 80 collieries will
now have ceased work. The point of
attack by the United Mine Workers
organizers now is the Panther Creek
valley, in the lower Lehigh region,
where the collieries of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation company have been in
practically full operation since the
strike began in the other sections.
Hazleton, Pa, Oct. 5.-Not the
slightest notice has been taken by the
striking miners of the ten per cent.
offered the employees by several of
the larger coal companies. As far as
is definitely known not one striking
miner has accepted the advance, but
on the other hand, more have quit
their places, notably in the Schuyl-
kill region, where three additional
collieries of the Reading company
were shut down.