Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-03-20
PLEA NOT TO STRIKE.
WiIkesbarre Board Of Trade to
Nichols.
ASK HIM TO OPPOSE TROUBLE.

ASK HIM TO OPPOSE TROUBLE.
President Mitchell and the District
Presidents lnvite Presidents eff
Coal Companies TO Attend a Con-
ference.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. March 20.-At a
meeting of the board of trade last
night the following communication
was addressed to T. D. Nichols. pres
ident of district No. l, United Mine
Workers of America;
Wilkesbarre. Pa. March 10.
t. D. Nichols-The board of trade
of the city of Wilkesbarre call upon
you in your capacity as president of
district No / to resist to the extent
of your ability a strike in the anthra-
cite coal region for a recognition Of
the union in a purely technical point,
which will bring widespread havoc
and disaster to the miners and husi-
ness interests of the anthracite re-
gion.
AS representatives of the business
interests of this community we lock
to you and depend upon you to avert
this terrible calamity.
(Signed) Garrett Smith.
Secretary.
Scranton Pa, March 20.-As the
result of conferences held Tuesday
morning and afternoon between Presi-
dent John Mitchell and the three dis
trict presidents of the anthracite re-
gion, communications were sent out
from the United Miners headquarters
to the presidents of all the coal com
panies and large individual operators.
These communications contained
statements of the action of last
weeks convention in passing the
resolution asking their attendance at
the conference of April 1, and further
expressed the aequieseenee in that
action by the national president and
presidents of districts Nos. |, and g.
No attempt will be made to deliver
any of these messages in person, as
! was done in the matter of the invita-
tions to the conference of March ID.
President Mitchell when seen Tues
day was still troubled with a heavy
cold. On being asked whether there
was any possibility of the operators
being approached through a third
party and their attendance at the
conference of April thus solicited,
the young leader of the mine work
ers looked rather surprised and de-
clared that the only intimation he had
received of any such movement was
what he saw in Tuesdays papers.
mo plans of INTERPRETATION, he
said have been as yet discussed by
the mine workers officials, and the
only arrangements have been made
for communication directly between
the operators and mine workers
However, in the course of develop
ments, we would be only too glad to
avail ourselves of any means of bring
ing about the end which we are try.
ing to establish.
''The report that | intend going to
New York with some of the local Off
Gals is entirely unfounded, as there
would be no possible use in our going
there unless we knew we would be
| favorably received by those interest
ed in the coal properties"
When asked what he thought of
the opinion expressed by the Wilkes
/ barre operator, reported as declar-
ing that the companies as corporate
DOuleS I6luSeQ " nave dHy uGdHfiSS
with the mine workers which are not
such, President Mitchell slightly
smiled and then deliberately an
swered: II do not think much Of
that pretext No labor organizations
are corporated."
In answer to another query regard
ing the reported dissatisfaction of the
miners in the Schuylkil1 valley and
20 vii NJ
/ Mitchell calmly said:
II do not question those reports.
In fact, do not think anyone is anx-
ious to strike. The miners are all
unwilling to suspend work. but still
they favor an adjustment of the pre-
vailing conditions. and realize that
the effectual method by which to se-
cure this is a joint conference.
"The men are all in favor of a
uniform scale being paid for the same
class Of work at the different col
1ieries. They believe that an hours
work in Scranton is of the same value
as an hours work in Shamokin or
elsewhere. and this is one Of the
phases Of the mining question which
/ demands the consideration Of a joint
conference"
Hazleton Pa. March 26.-The fear
Of another general anthracite coal
strike on April | is causing a great
exodus among the foreign speaking
miners of the Hazleton region. To-
DAY so Italians will go to Johnstown,
where they have secured work In the
| iron mills. Many Hungarians and
/ Italians have engaged passage on
OUTGOING steamers and will remain
in Europe until the strike. if one oc-
ours. is over. The probability Of a
strike has also caused stagnation in
business circles.
Constable Northcraft Acquitted.