The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-11-01
THE STRIKE IS OFF
Official Settlement of Trouble
by Union Officials.
FEW OPERATORS FAIL TO COMPLY
A. such Mines the strike viii Coutaau.
Until the Employees Are 0rsnt-
ed Their Demands.


cation tonight by President Mitchell.
of the United Mineworkers:
: Temporary Heaqduarters, United
Mineworkers of America, Hazleton,
Pa, October 81, 1900.-To the miners
and mineworkers of the anthracite reg
ion: Gentlemen-After carefully can
vassing the entire strike situation. we,
your officers. district and national,
have concluded that your victory is 50
nearly complete that no good end can
be served by continuing the strike
longer. The contest has been in pro-
gress for SO days, and the companies
employing you have, with few excep
tions, signitied their willingness to pay
the scale of wages formulated by the
Scranton convention Vt October IL and
Is.
I'VE are aware that some disappoint.
ment and dissatisfaction has been
caused by the failure of the operators
in districts and to separate the re.
duction in the price of powder from
the advance in wages, but after careful
inquiry we are satisfied that each mine
employe will actually receive an ad.
vance of 10 per cent on the wages form.
erly paid. In the Schuylkill and Le
Ugh regions the largest companies have
agreed that the sliding scale shoulc
be suspended and that wages should
remain stationary at 10 per cent until
April l. 1891, thus removing one OF
the iniquities of which you have COM
planned 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.
pelled to perform, you have established
a perfect organization, which. if main.
tanned und conducted ON business prin.
ciples, will enable You to regulate
many of your local grievances and make
your employment 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 resumed committees be select.
ed by the mine employees and that they
wait upon the superintendents OF the
companies and present their griev.
ances in an orderly, business-like man.
ner, and ask that they be corrected.
'sYour attention is respectfully
called to the fact that the laws of the
state of Pennsylvania provide that
miners should be paid. semi monthly
upon demand. 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 go 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 in.
duce all mineworkers to ally them
selves with the United Mineworkers Of
America at once, as it will be impossi-
BILE for you to secure your wages in the
future or even maintain the present
rate OF wages unless you are prepared
to offer q united resistance il any at
tempt is made to reduce your earnings
upon the expiration of the present
Offer"
The address ia signed by the national
and district officers of the United Nine
workers of America.
Dodson & Co.. operating the Beaver
Brook colliery, posted a notice today
complying with the demands of the
Scranton convention. The company
also operates the Morea and William
colleries, in Schuylkill county.
Recruits for Philippines.
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