Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-23
THE GREAT NINE STRIKE
IS PRACTICALLY OVER.
WILL END AS SOON AS ALL OPER-
ATORS POST NOTICES OF
THE ADVANCE
GIVEN BY THE READING CO.
PRESIDENT MITCHELL SEEMED
QUITE CHEERFUL OVER
THE PROSPECT.


HAZLETON, Pa, October 22.-PreS-
ident Mitchell, in an interview tonight,
practically admitted that the anthra-
cite miners strike would end as soon
as all the operators posted a notice
guaranteeing the payment OF a 10 per
cent. advance in wages until April /.
President Mitchell said:
THE prospect of an early settle
ment of the coal strike is becoming
brighter. Some of the operators who
have not yet posted notices signifying
their willingness to fall in line either
with the Reading company or with the
proposition made by the Lehigh Valley
Company in the Hazleton region. If
all Of them notify their employees by
posting notices or otherwise that an
actual advance of ten per cent. will be
paid each mine employee and guarantee
it's continuance until April /, together
with the abolition of the sliding scale,
| believe that the terms would be &C
copied by the mine workers. The re-
duction in powder from $2.75 to $1.50
has confused the minds of the miners,
Out oOLAC VI Tie OPCl dtOl hpNO AZ
fully explained how contract miners
could receive the full advance of ten
per cent. as we'll as other employees,
that believe that this obstacle can be
overcome"
Although, as President Mitchell says,
the outlook for an early settlement OF
the strike is bright, it is difficudt to
make prediction as to when the end
will come Some of the coal COM
panies are showing a disposition not
to issue a second notice guaranteeing
the payment of the ten per cent. in
crease in wages until April l. Among
these are the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western and the Delaware & Hudson,
the officials of which companies are re-
ported to have declined to issue a sup
Elemental notice. The labor leaders,
however, hope that the companies will
in some way make known that they
will guarantee the payment of the ad-
vance until April 1. President Mitchell
appeared quite cheerful tonight when
he made the announcement as above,
and his manner indicated that the time
is near at hand when all the anthracite
miners now on strike shall return to
the mines. AS soon as all the notices
guaranteeing the payment of the adj
vance until April / are posted, Presi-
dent Mitchell will call a meeting Of the
national executive board at which it is
believed the strike will be declared off.
A GREAT DEMONSTRATION.
The largest labor demonstration
ever held in this city took place to-day,
when nearly 1000 miners paraded the
streets. In carriage at their head
rode President Mitchell, who received
an enthusiastic ovation all along the
line of march. Thousands of miners,
accompanied by their families, came
to the city from every mining town in
the region to view the parade. Be-
sides the miners from this city, there
were $50 men in line who had tramped
eighteen miles over the mountains
from Panther Creek valley. They, with
the McAdoO miners, who are famed
through the coal fields for their perse-
verance in marching and closing col
lieries, were the heroes of the parade.
Three bus loads of the marching wom-
en- of McAdoo and 800 small breaker
boys dressed in their working clothes
and with lighted mine lamps in their
caps, We're at the head of the line, i'm
mediately behind the carriages con-
tanning the United Mine Workers Off
cials. Many notices expressing the
sentiments of the strikers were carried
in the procession. President Mitchell
reviewed the parade at the end of the
route, after which mass meeting was
held, at which President Mitchell was
the principal speaker. He said the
strike was in such a peculiar position
that it was hard to outline just what
the result would be. He believed the
time was not far distant, however,
when every mine would be in operation
and that the men now had practically
won the strike. Among other speakers
were w. D. Mahon, OF Detroit, inter-
national president of the Amalgamated
Association of Street Railway En-
ployes of America; Benjamin James, of
Hazleton; Fred. Dilcher, of Ohio; w.
D. Farley, of Alabama George Purcell,
of Indiana; members of the national
executive board of the United Mine
Workers; John Fahey, president Of dis
trict No. 8; R. H. COPYRIGHT, of Scran-
ton; Edward Sippitt, of Pittsburg, ma
tional organizer; Mother JONES'" of
Chicago; Angelo Perrin, an Italian;
and Anthony Slasscher, a Slavonian.