The Topeka state journal., 1900-09-15
COAL STRIKE
FAR REACHING.
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statement to the public was issued from
the United Mine workers headquarters
today:
In view OF the lingering impression
that seems to exist in the public mind
that we are trying to force the coal
companies to recognize the united Mine
workers Of America, we desire to state
that prior to the offer of arbitration
MADE Dy US, and before the strike order
was issued, we made the following pro-
position to the coal companies through
the services of an intermediary who
voluntarily offered to act in that ca
pacity:
First-That the coal companies meet
committees of their own employees in
the same town, on the same date, place
and date to be mutually agreed upon
Second-That, failing to accept the
first proposition, the companies to post
notices simultaneously not later than
September 20; that on and after Octo-
per the increase in wages asked for be
granted and the other evils complained
of remedied.'
Concerning the proposition to arbi-
trate an offer was made by the employees
of the coal cOnpanies and sent out from
Hazelton on September z, and following
that the officers of the United Mine
Workers on behalf of the employees sent
a telegram to each of the railroad COM
panleS controlling anthracite mines, Of
fering to submit the whole question to
arbitration.
The kilograms were sent from the pos
tai telegraph Office at Indianapolis at
1916 midday, Wednesday, September u
and no answer has yet been received,
while the order to strike would. not take
effect until Monday, September II, Civ
ing ample time to accept any proposition
to arbitrate.
JOHN MITCHELL, Prest.
w. B. WILSON, Sec'y.
HAVE MONEY IN PLENTY.
Indianapolis, Sept. 15.-At the head
quarters today Mitchell and Wilson read
tRiGqr9T1
leaders in the anthracite fields. The re-
port of board members and district
chell and his private secretary, Miss
Elizabeth G. Morris, will leave Indian
apolis at T:10 O'Clock this evening over
the Big Four for Hazelton, Pa. They
Will arrive there tomorrow evening.
Wilson will not go to the anthracite
fields, as he will be required to remain
in charge of the headquarters in this
city
The strike in the Jelico district was
settled yesterday, about 5000 men hav-
ing been idle for good while.
At strike headquarters today Com
mitteeman Dilcher said the financial
statement of the miners for July and
the comments thereon distributed by the
operators in circular form does not show
the defense fund of the organization.
The statement is regularly printed for
public information, but the condition of
the defense fund is not made public
property.
TT is sufficient, he said, 'sto assure
the strikers that we have the means on
which to keep up the struggle for JUS
tice."
WILL MEET DAILY
Scranton, Pa, Sept. 15-The superin-
tendents of the different mining COM
panies today were again in conference,
and from now on they will meet daily.
They have thoroughly reviewed the sit
uation, and while deploring generally
the strike of their employees, they do not
see how 1T is possible to change from
the decision heretofore made, namely the
impossibility of granting any increases
in wages and the determination not to
recognize the union.