The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-08
COAL STRIKE IS AVER7ED
DINNERS AND OPERATORS REACH
 AN 4GREEM EN1.
Scale of 1901 Heafiirmed Mitchell Advises His AssOciates-Snys It Would be Suicidal, nt This Time, to Tie I'm the Mines of the Country and Entail suffering on Thousands-His Words Prevail

| Indianapolis Feb S.--In secret ses-
 sion which was begun last evening and ended after midnight the massed dele gates of the United Mine Workers, act ing finally upon the advice of each of their national officers, adopted the re- port of the joint scale committee made last night which rs-atfirmed the scale of 1901. as a whole The report was de- cided upon at a meeting of the commit tee held late Friday afternoon.
 President Mitchell called the meeting
 of the delegates and mine workers to
 order and the meeting immediately
 went into executive session.
 When the report of the committee was read a furor ensued, and If the
 vote had been taken at that time the
 strong strike sentiment existing would 1 have been manifested by an overwhelm- | ing vote to reject the report. At least l twenty miners were on their fet at one
 time demanding recognition of the
 chair, but President Mitchell called
 them to order and said:
 q believe 1t would be suicidal for you
 at this time precipitately to do that
 which must inevitably tie up the mines
 of the country and entail suffering up-
 on you and hundreds of thousands of
 other people If after calmly discuss l ing this report you decide to reject it
 and declare for a strike I wish to as-
 sure you that your national officers will 1 stand by your action and do all in their
 power to make your action good. But
 beseech you to consider wisely before
 doing that which you will surely regret
 in the future. I believe it is best that
 this report as read be adopted. l am
 honestly and firmly of the opinion that 1 it will be for your best interests to adopt this report, that reaflirms last | years scale"
 Vice President Lewis also urged the l adoption of the report as the most piau- sible and rational settlement of com l plicated situation.
 This is no time for 8 strike" he
 said. q believe it is time for cool and calm deliberation just now. We can not hope to gain such concessions as we
 have asked of the mine owners and 1t would be much better to let well enough alone if we cannot just now make bet ter our conditions in the mining fields, I am for the adoption of the report, under the existing circumstances w, D. Ryan of Illinois, W. D. Reese
 of Iowa and Secretary Treasurer Will son also advised the adoption of the re- port.
 Early in the evening some strong eX- captions were taken to the report. One delegate asked: What is the matter with our members of the scale committee? They went into the com
 mittee instructed and pledged to stand by the scale we offered the operators.
 It looks like betrayal" Others in the hall expressed similar opinions. The national officers present however, took the reins in their hands and stemmed the strike tide by calm, dispassionate advice W. D. Ryan of Illinois, the
 head of the Illinois delegation of mine workers, also took strong ground against a strike, Finally at 11:3O o'clock
 when the vote was taken, there were but few who voted against the adoption Uf the report.