The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-26
STRIKE IS OFF.
President Mitchell Of the United
Mine Workers
Orders Men to Resume Work
Next Monday.
APPLIES TO ALL MINES
Where Operators Have Accepted
Terms of Strikers.
TO ALL MINES
In Other Quarters Present Con-
ditions Will Continue.

Hazleton, Pa, Oct. 26.-The mine
workers strike has been declared off
against all companies which have COM
piled with the strikers demands, and
the strike viii be continued against those
companies which have not granted the
Scranton conventions demands The
strikers will return to work Monday at
the places where the tie-up is ended.
The following statement has been
given out for publication by President
Mitchell of the United Mine Workers:
Temporary headquarters, United Mine
Workers of America, HazletOn, Pa,
October 25, 1900
ITO the miners and mine workers of
the anthracite region: GentIem men-After
carefully canvassing the entire strike
| situation, we, your officers, district and
national, have concluded that your vic
tory is so 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
companies employing you have, with
few exceptions, signifed their Willingness
to pay the scale of wages formulated by
the Scranton convention of October II
and 13.
I'VE are aware that some disappoint-
ment and dissatisfaction has been caused
by the failure of the operators in dis
tricts and to separate the reduction
in the price of powder from the advance
in wages, but after careful inquiry we
tually receive an advance of 10 per cent.
on the wages formerly paid. In the
Schuylxill and I4ehigh regions the larg-
est companies have agreed that the
sliding scale should be suspended, and
that wages should remain stationary at
10 per cent. additional until April 1,
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 your wrongs;
while it is true that the increase in your
earnings will not fully compensate you
for the aTduous labor you are compelled
to perform, you have established 3. per-
feet organization, which if maintained
and conducted on business principles will
enable you to regulate many of your
local grievances and make your employ
nlent less hazardous and more profitable
than before the strike began.
1.-THE companies agree in their notices
to take up with their mine employees all
grievances complained of. We would
therefore advise that when work is re-
sumed committees be selected by the
mine employees and that they wait upon
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 Pennsylvania provide that miners
should be paid senli-nonthIy, upon de-
mand- We should therefore advise that
each mine employe serve notice on the
companies that he expects to be paid his
wages twice each month, as provided by
law.
THE practical benefits to the miners
which accrue from thorough organiza-
tion have been so clearly demonstrated
during this strike that it should be
needless for us to urge upon you the
necessity of maintaining your union in
tact. We trust, however, that those who
are row members of the union VIII be
unceasing in their efforts to induce all
other mine workers to ally themselves
with the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea at once. as it will be impossible for
you to secure higher wages in the future
or even to maintain the present rate OF
wages unless you are prepared to offer
a united resistance if any attempt IS
made to reduce your earnings upon the
expiration of the present offer.
LAS there are some few companies who
have neither posted. notified nor signi-
fed in any other manner their willing
ness to pay the 10 per cent advance in
wages and suspend the sliding scale, we
would advise that unless the men en-
ployed by such companies receive no
tice before Monday that the advance will
be paid they remain away from the
nniness and continue on strike until the
companies employing them agree to the
conditions offered by the other COM
panies. The employees of the companies
who have offered the advance of 10 per
cent and abolished the sliding scale are
hereby authorized to resume work Mon
day morning, October %, and to be pre-
paTeQ, II CdIl0Q GpOA. u COAltIiD0NG
reasonable amount of their earnings for
the maintenance of those who may be
compelled to continue on strike"
The address is signed by the national
and district officers of the United Mine
Workers Of America
MORE NOTICES GO UP.
Scranton, Pa, Oct 26.-There is great
rejoicing today all through Scranton
and the Lackawanna Valley at the call
ing off of the anthracite miners strike.
The order has had the effect of stimu-
latirle the companies which had not al
ready posted notices agreeing to ad-
vance wages 10 per cent to do SO and
today the Pennsylvania Coal company
sent out its official notice to its miners
at Dunsrnore, Avoca and Pittston. Like
action was taken by the Hoosac Noun
tain Coal company and this evening will
find the notice up at every mine in the
valley from Forest City to Pittston.
Twenty-three thousand men and boys
between these points will therefore re
sumo work on Monday. What tie
Susquehanna. Coal company which Is
controlled by the Pennsylvania railroad
will do as to its mines at Nanticoke is
as vet unknown but that conpanYss
general superintendent, Morris Williams,
at the meeting OF the operators here on
Thursday of last week agreed to the
April 1st concession and was a full
party to the agreement then made. To-
day the mining companies have forces
Of men engaged getting the mines in
shape for resumption on Monday.
At the mines all the sidings are filled
with cars and the shipments of coal are
ends.