The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-30
STRIKE DECLARED OFF
AS TO THOSE COMPANIES ACCEDlNG
TO DEMANDS Of STRIKERS
THESE MINES To OPEN MONDAY
Omcia Announcement to This Effect
by Omcers of h Coal Miners Assoc
ciation-The Strike Continued as to
fused an Increase Of wages-Miners
to Appoint Committees to Present
Other Grievances t. Their Employees.

Hazleton, Pa. October 25.-The mine
workers strike has beer declared of as
to all companies which have complied
with the strikers demands. and the
strike will be continued against those
companies which have not granted the
Scranton conventions demand. The
strikers will return to work Monday
at the places where the tie-up is ended.
This announcement was conveyed in a
statement addressed to the miners n
issued tonight by President Mitchell
and other officers of the United Mine
Workers. The statement
After carefully canvassing the en-
tire strike situation, we. you officers,
district and national. have concluded
that your victory is so nearly complete
hat no good can be served by con-
tinuing the strike longer. The contest
has been in progress for thirty-nine
days and the companies employing
you have. with few exceptions, signi-
fled their willingness to pay the scale
of wages formulated by the Scranton
convention of October 18th and 18th.
we are aware that some disappoint-
ment and dissatisfaction has been
caused by the failure of the operators
in districts No. 1 and No. Z to separate
the reduction in the price of powder
from the advance in wages, but after
careful inquiry we are satisfied that
each mine employee will actually receive
an advance of 10 per cent, on the
wages formerly paid. In the Schuyl-
kill and Lehigh regions the largest
companies have agreed that the slid
in0 cno1a Chn11l6 hQ Sl1Snanda6 and
that wages shall remain stationary at
10 per cent until April 1, 1901; thus re-
moving one of he iniquities of which
you have complained for many years.
while it is true that you have not
secured redress for all your wrongs;
while 1t is true that the increase in
your earnings will not fully compensate
you for the abor you are
compelled to perform in the mines,
you have established a powerful organ
iZation, which, if maintained and con-
Quoted on business principles, will en-
able you to regulate many of your To-
cal grievances and make your employ
ment less hazardous and more profita-
BILE than before the strike began.
The companies agree, in their no
tees, to take up with their mine en-
ployes 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 superintendent of
the companies and present their griev-
ances, in an orderly, busineSS-like
manner, and ask that they be cor
| rected.
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 demand; We should
| therefore advise that each mine en-
ployee serve notice on the companies
| that he expects to be paid his wages
twice. each month, as provided by law.
LAS there are some few companies
who nave neither posted, notified OF
signiied in any other manner, their
willingness to pay the 10 per cent ad-
vance in wages inc 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 have abol-
ished the sliding scale are hereby au-
thorized to resume work Monday morn
ing, October Goth, and to be. prepared
if called upon, to contribute a reason
able amount of their earnings for the
maintenance of those who may be
compelled to continue on strike"