The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-10
STRIKE is IN BALANCE
Negotiations Tend to Head Off
WalkOut of Miners.
OFFICERS HAVE DICTUM
PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY
NAY ORDER OUT 100000.

Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 9-The national
executive board OF the United Mine
workers of America adjourned today sine
ole without promulgating a formal en-
oorsement of the application of the min
ers of the anthracite districts for permis-
sion TO strike At the close Of the ses-
sion. President John Mitchell said:
There is practically no change in the
situation since last night. If the operators
do not meet our demands within a given
time, the strike viii be ordered upon the
myself.
Whether the time allowed is five DAYS
or longer decline TO say. AS set out in
our statement of yesterday, influences are
without ordering the men TO law down
their tools must again decline to saw
what these influences are, for the reason
that the making of this information pub
lie would destroy their effectiveness
II Ihere are any political influences at
work know nothing Of them, and don't
thlnk II has come to the knowledge of
the board members. It would be a very
bad policy for the national officers of the
United Mine Workers to ask the interces-
sion Of any political party, and this must
certainly not be done. We are irving to
get the miners of our organization and
those not affiliated with US honest wages
Negotiations Are Pending.
Up TO the time the members of the
poard left the office of the president there
mad been no communication whatever in
the anthracite districts. Summed up the
situation, according to the admission OF
President Mitchell is simply this:
Negotiations are undoubtedly on for
settlement of the differences without a
strike SO long as these are pending, the
miners will not strike, for the reason that
the operators would be left a loop-h0le of
escape from the position they now occupy
by saying the men had gone out at a time
when there was chance that an annie
able settlement might have been brought
about"
Public sympathy is an absolute neces-
s1ty insofar as the miners are concerned.
A delay until it is seen that their wages
out a fight; that their grievances upon
the powder question, wherein they com
key at pluck me- stores than is asked in
the open market; that they are not al
lowed a check weighman on the tipple
and must accept the weights of companies
that exact from them more than $500
pounds for a ton which is sold on a basis
OF 2,24o pounds to the ton, is bound to
start a sympathetic movement that will
reach over the entire length and breadth
of the country.
to go out at the bidding of the executive
board. There are among the miners loyal
men who Will provide for themselves
through short, sharp, decisive fight, but
men who are working at wages ranging
from 80 cents to 81 S5 per day cannot pro-
organization is met with the burden of
taking care of not less than half million
of people during the strike
Under these circumstances the members
/ of the board admit that until the last
Yestige OF hope for settlement without
| inviting a condition that may result in
| the loss of life, the destruction of prop
| erty and the temporary paralysis of in
| Vulnerable industries, they must wait.
Left With the Officers.
It has been evident from the first ses-
| sion of the executive board that unless
| there was a change in the attitude of the
| operators and an inclinStion to al least
recognize the officers of the mine workers
and agree to a wage scale conference. a
| strike would be endorsed. This same po-
| SitiOn was maintained throughout the de-
| iiberatiOns of the board and existed al the
| time of adjournment, and Sttll exists, but
1 as these men who have been in session
! are needed in various parts of the coun-
| try for the business OF the organization
] and TO simplify matters, The declara tion
tof rriL- Is left in NJ nsf-