Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-11-01
At AN END.
THE BIG PENNSYLVANIA STRIKE
is PARTIALLY OVER.
The MINERS WIN OUT
Men Will Return To Work With Such
Companies As Have Posted
Notices of the Raise.

| Hazelton, Pa.-(Special)-The follow
ing statement was given out for publ
cation by President Mitchell of the
| United Mine Workers:
Temporary Headquarters, United
Mine Workers, Hazelton, Pa, Oct. Is
To the Miners and Mine Workers of
the Anthracite Region: Gentlemen
situation, we, your officers, district and
| national have concluded that your vic
| tory is SO near complete that no good
| end can be served by continuing the
strike longer. The contest has been III
progress for thirty-nine days, and the
companies employing you have, with
few exceptions, signified their willing
ness to pay the scale Of wages formu-
lated by the Scranton convention of
| October II and 13.
| I'VE are aware that some some dis
| appointment and dissatisfaction have
| been caused by the failure of operators
in districts l and to separate the re-
duction in the price of powder from
| the advance in wages, but after 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
should be suspended and that wages
should remain stationary at 10 per cent
until April 1, 1901; thus removing one
Of the iniquities of which you hav.
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 arduous labor you are COM
PEELED to perform, you have established
| 4 powerful organization which, if main
tanned and conducted on business prin-
ciples, will enable you to regulate many
If your local grievances and make your
employment less hazardous and more
profitable than before the strike be-
gan.
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
the superintendent of the companies
and present their grievances in an or
derby, business-like 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 semi-monthly upon de-
mand We should, therefore, advise
that each mine employe serve. notice on
the companies that he epects to be paid
his wages twice each month"; as pro-
vided by law.
''The practical benefits to the miners
which accrue from thorough organiza-
ton 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 now members of the union will
be unceasing in their efforts to induce
all other mine workers to ally them
selves with the United Mine Workers
of America at once, as it will be i'm
possible 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.
"As there are some few companies
who have neither posted, notified nor
signified in any other manner, their
willingness to pay the 10 per cent ad-
vance in wages and suspend the sliding
scale, we would advise that unless the
men employed by such companies re-
ceive notice before Monday that the
advance will be paid, they remain away
from the mines and continue on strike
until the companies employing them
agree to the conditions offered by the
other companies, and 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 Monday morning, Octo-
Der 80 and to be prepared, if called on,
to contribute a reasonable amount of
your earnings for the maintenance OF
those who may be compelled to con-
| tinue on strike.
JOHN MITCHELL. President
'W. B. WILSON. Secretary.
Omitted Mine Workers of America.
The order is also signed by Fred Dill
rher. G.. w. Purcell. W. r. Farley,
BENJAMIN James, national executive
board. United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea: T. D. Nichols, president district
] No. /: John T. Dempsey, secretary dis
trict No. 1; Thomas Duffy, president of
district No. I; John P. Gallagher, secre-
tary of district No. Z; John Fahey,
president of district No. 9; George w.
Hartlein, secretary of district No. 9; c.
Morris, secretary conference committee.
FEDERALs ARE NOT TO VOTE.
! San Juan, Porto Rico.-(Special.)- 1.-The
federals have decided to withdraw from
| the elections and not go to the polls.