Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-11-12

Washington. Nov. i2,-That the an
thraclte coal mine owners win resist to
the utmost every effort to make the rec
ognition OF the United Mine Workers Of
America an issue In the arbitration
which is now In progress Is made evil
dent by the replies 10 the statement or
President John Mitchell, Of the miners
Organization, which have been filed With
the strike commission. There are five
OF these answers in addition to that OF
President Baer which was given out
yesterday, and all dwell with especial
emphasis and marked unanimty on
, this point They also agree In resisting
the demands of the miners for an In
crease Of pay for plecework, Il reduc-
tion of hours for timework and for the
Weighing rather than the measurement
of coal.
Recorder Wright left for the anthra-
cite regions today, taking these replies
with him. In addition to the statement
Of the Reading company by President
Baer, the list comprises the replies Of
the Delaware 4 Hudson company, the
Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, the
Pennsylvania. and the Scranton Coal
company.
The reply Of the Delaware Il Lack
awanna railway company to President
Mitchell's statement is signed by w H..
Truesdale, president, who says that the
company owns % anthracite colleries
and employs 1900 workmen in this
branch of It's business. Mr. Truesdale.
like Mr.. Baer, objects to making the
reorganization of the union one of the
issues to be considered by the commits
sion saying that In the proposition
made by the company for arbitration
one of the express conditions was that
the findings of the commission should
govern the conditions Of c-ployment
between It and its employees. He adds;
TRUEsDALEs POSITION.
This company unequivocally asserts
that Ii VIII under no condition recognize
or enter into any agreement with the
association known as the United Mine
Workers of America or any branch
thereof. Nor win It permit said asso-
citation or Its officers 10 dictate the
terms and conditions under which II
shall conduct its business"
Referring to the recent strike, Mr.,
| Truesdale says he is reliably informed
that so per cent OF the company's EN-.
| ployes We're opposed TO the strike but
they we're forced 10 ehggf upon II by u
majority vote OF the mineworkers IN
other fields Mr. Truesdale follows
closely the lines Of Mr., liaer's argument
as to the disslmilarity between the work
in the anthracite mines and that In bit
luminous mines. He declares that Il is
impossible 10 adopt a uniform rate to
be paid to the miner for a unit of coal
mined at ali mines. The declaration Is
also made that the anthracite miners
as a rule do not work as many hours
day as do the bitumiuous miners and
the opinion Is advanced that II the
wages of the anthracite miners had
been less than that Of other working
men they would have found employ
mont elsewhere which they did not do
until the advent Of general prosperity.
He says that prior 20 the Introduction
Of agitators and mischefmakers the an
thracite workers were on an average
as prosperous, comfortable and content
ed as any body Of workers Of similar
employment IN this country"
The wages, II is added, are such that