Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-09-11
THE MINERS WILL GO OUT.
Poregone Conviction That Strike in
Anthracite Region Will
Be Declared.
MINERS OFFICIALS IN CONFERENCE.
Strong Efforts Mt HazIeton, Pr, to
Get Operators to Confer with the
Union Refuse to Treat with Any
But Their own Mem Bitter Fight
Ahead.

indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 1O.-The
executive board of the United Mine
Workers of America went into secret
session here at $3.50 Saturday morn
ing. Before closing the doors Pres
ident Mitchell said no statement
would be forthcoming before noon,
and perhaps not then. 1t is foregone
that a strike in the anthracite region
will be declared.
The national board of the United
Mine Workers resumed its closed SEES
sion at $3.50 o'clock in the morning in
the Stevenson building. Before the
meeting the board members said that
the situation had not changed during
the night. No disposition has been
manifested by the operators to meet
any of the demands made by the min
ers through either the national Off
GERS or the district officers in the an
thacite region.
The presidents of districts No. 1, Z
and Gall anthracite-are at Halle
ton, Pa, the center of the field. and
SO far as is known in Indianapolis no
answer to the appeal issued Friday
night by these three presidents
Thomas D. Nichols, John Fahey and
Thomas Duffey-has been made by the
operators.
The utmost secrecy attended the
board meeting. The board members
ridfcule the stories in circulation that
a lobby of business men from the east
has been in Indianapolis, trying to
prevent strike order. Nobody has
called on the board for such pur.
pose.
VIII Take Care OF the Men.
1--WE will certainly issue the order
for general strike, and the country
may as well be satisfied with this state.
ment," said one of the board mem.
bers. "We care little what the oper.
ators have to say as to the impending
distress in the Wyoming OF other val.
leys. We are running things from In.
dianapolis now. The statement that,
there will be great distress does not
worry us; we will take care of our
men If they go on strike, and will not
ask the operators for any financial
aid"
Seek Settlement of Difficulty.
Hazleton, Pa, Sept. 1O.-Efforts are
still being made here to bring about
a settlement of the impending strike
John Fahey and Thomas Duffey, mem.
bers of the executive board of the
three anthracite mining districts, are
In conference behind closed doors with
Father Phillips, but they have moth.
ing to give out for publication
Father Maloy, of Audenried, and Gen.
eral Superintendent Richards and Di
vision Superintendent Hadesty, of the
Lehigh g. Wilkesbarre Coal company.
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they refused absolutely to say what
had been done.
To Fight to Bitter End.
It was learned later that Father
Maloy urged upon Lehigh & Wilkes.
barre officials the desirability OF
with the United Mine
Workers, but General Manager Rich
ards refused to accept any such pro
posal. The company will deal only
with it's own men. The United Mine
Workers are said to be well organized
at the Golfers controlled by this com
pany. The refusal of the Lehigh &
Wilkesbarre company to recognize the
Mine Workers, with whose committees
the officials conferred frequently dur.
ing the strike here three years age
and through whom the trouble at
Audenried and Honey Brook was set
tied, is taken as an Indication that
the operators are now determined tc
onnose the union to the bitter end.