Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-09-30
STRIKE CONFERENCE.
Miners Leaders Met Mysteri-
Gus Parsonage at Phil
adelphia.
ANOTHER REGIMENT ORDERED.
Fourth Pennsylvania Sent to the An.
thracite Region--Mob Held Up q
Train-Movement to Elect Con.
gressmen Who Will Settle Strike.

PllIaQelpn1a, sept. 3U.--A myStef-
tous conference took place here yes
terday, between President Mitchell,
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, Secretary Treasurer W. B. Will
son, District Presidents Nichols, Duff
fly and Fahy, and an unknown person
whose identity the other parties to
the conference refused to divulge. At
the Office of the Philadelphia and Read
sng Railway Company, it was stated
positively that no official of the COM
oany had been present at the meeting.
A member of Mr.. Mitchell's party,
who declined to allow the use of his
name, made the following statement:
Amy one can readily understand
that only matter Of the first impor-
lance in relation to the strike would
bring President Mitchell, Secretary
Wilson and Districts Nichols, Duffy
and Fahy, who form the executive
board of the United Mine Workers to
this city together There must lee
essarily be continued conferences and
negotiations with the coal operating
interests before the strike can be set.
tied.
A Conference of Importance.
Messrs Mitchell and Wilson arrived
here at 1870 o'clock, yesterday morn
ing, from Pittsburg, where they had
held conference last Saturday. The
three district presidents and John ].
Keegan, business agent of the Nation
al Association of Machinihts, met the
miners chief at the railway station.
After a hasty breakfast, the party
proceeded tothe office of Mr. Keegan.
After remaining there about 80 min
utes, President Mitchell went to the
Hotel Walton and was shown to a pri-
yate room Later he summoned his
associates and the five miners offie-
ials were there closeted with the mys-
ferrous parsonage for nearly three
hours
At the conclusion of the conference,
Mr.. Mitchell and the three district
presidents left over the Pennsylvania
railroad for Wilkesbarre and Secre-
tary Wilson depraved for Indianapolis
Senator Quay was not in the city
and Senator Penrose denied having
any communication, directly or indi-
rectly, with Mr. Mitchell.
Before leaving the city Mr.. Wilson
said "You can state emphatically
that Mr.. Mitchell's visit has nothing
to do with politics and is without po-
litical significance"
President Mitchell declined posi-
lively to make any statement con-
corning the object of his visit here.
Another Regiment Ordered Out.
Shamokin, Pa, Sept. 30.-Sheriff
Dietrich and posse left here late
last evening for the Union Coal COM
panys Richards cilliery, between this
place and Mount Carmel, to guard
non-unionists from being attacked by
a mob of 1000 strikers, assembled on
the hills near the mine. They did not
fire on the posse and the men refused
to dispense for the sheriff. They were
still near the colliery last night. TIL
sheriff swore in number of deputies
last night at the request of the Penn
sylvania railroad, to guard trains be-
tween here and Mt Carmel, owing to
a mob holding up a train yesterday
near Green Ridge, when Lieutenant
Andrew Britain, Union company po-
liceman, was wounded in the back by
load of buckshot fired by a striker.
A Congress to Settle Coal Question.
Springfield, Mass, Sept. 30.-A
movement has been begun to form
the Peoples Coal League, an organ
ization for the purpose of electing, on
Nov 4, a congress that will deal ade-
quately with the coal question. Plat
form:
I'VE demand that the federal gov
eminent own the coal mines and adj
minister them in the interest of the
whole people,"