New-York tribune., 1902-05-16
DELEGATES VOTE STRIK f.
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! Mitchell who was the last to speak. listened
to with the greatest attention 1t is said that a
| telegram was read from the American Federation
delegates would not listen and amid considerable
suppressed excitement the vote was taken. For q
win. but when delegation after delegation from the
Yes, it was seen that the men who favored a
n96yenon o Win nnus Which however was not
enthusiastic or proSnged Inc men ,c 5pPpeCa1fa pr ,
damped their ardor.
MAY CALL OUT WATER FIGHTERS.
The proposition TO call out the engineers. fire.
and pump runners separated from the
main question early in the discussion which began
after the convention met this morning. There
was an almost equal division In this matter. and
the debate became so involved that 1t was decided
The men. having thrown down the gauntlet to their
would not be surprising if the convention o-mor-
row decided to call out the other employees re-
The miners insist that nearly all the engineers.
ton. and say that they get them all to quit If
they want TO. In the event that this Is brought
through flooding unless the companies can succeed
In filling the mems places
WHOLE TOWN CELEBRATES
While the people of the coal fields are glad that
the suspense and uncertainty occasioned by the
long delay i'm reaching a conclusion of the strike
question are over, the news OF the conventions
action caused considerable depression. Business
has been paralyzed to a certain extent, and It will
probably come to almost a StandStil.
There was great crowd OF miners In HazletOn
to-day. They came from all parts or the region,
ana most OF them cOngregated in the vicinity Of
dne convention hall. They Were gathered in large
waiting for some information from the inside Be
newspaper correspondents and a big contingent OF
dEtItS OF corporations who We're waiting to fash
1t was exactly 5:45 o'clock when the vote to strike
delegates however We're not allowed to leave the
building. President Mitchell announcing that they
should remain I'm the hall until he himself had
announced the result to the waiting crowd
t ten s ne aPpeared at the front door there was
al the correspondents had assembled around him
leader finally shouted the result. and Wild rush
ioE I1d telephones and telegraph wires ensued
celebrating the decision by giving parties
OPERATORS WANT UNIONS LIFE BLOOD"
WiIkesbawe Penn, May 15-Idle miners and la
porers thronged the streets OF this city and ad-
joining towns all day to-day anxiousIy awaiting
news from the Hazleton convention When the
word finally came that the representatives of the
underground workers had voted 70 continue the
strike men dispersed to their homes. many wear
ing look OF anxiety. If not actual distress They
knew that the last hope gone and that prob
ably long period of idleness was before them
In United Mine Workers circles the action OF
'he convention Is upheld. The leaders claim that
II was not possible for the miners to recede from
thelr demands; that If they did. dIssensions youId
soon appear In their ranks. and there would be
danger Of the union falling by its own weight II
the union must be destroyed, the leaders think #
would be fetter that 1t should die lighting the com
mon enemy than TO be annhilated by dissensons
In its ranks.
one OF the subordinate officers Of the United
Mine Workers said tonight that
Fl" was not arbitration that the operntors
wanted nut the life blood Of the union
The individual operators in this section do NOT
LOOK ior prolonged strike They think the strik
@rs are not prepared for a long period Of dlcness
.u i.u lnat Nhen hunger comes the foreign element
~ ti aIt,At q rush 10 get back work and that
" HISh ttile strike There is much Depression
!" business circles over the strike order