Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-09-30
MINE LEADERS CONFER,
President Mitchell Goes to Fittsburg
and Meets Secretary-Treas-
urer Wilson.
OTHER LABOR LEADERS MAY MEET THEM
While the Onlccrs Deny That Any
Matters of Importance Are to lie
Discussed, the Conference Ia be-
licved to lie OF More Importance
Than II Admitted.


Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 29.-President
John Mitchell and Secretary-Treas
nrer w. B. Wilson, OF the United
Mine Workers of America, arrived in
this city shortly before nine O'Clock
Saturday and went ut once into con-
ference at the Hotel Henry.
President Mitchell stated just pre-
uious to the opening of the confer
ence that nothing of Importance
would be transacted at the meeting.
1--WE are here to go over routine
business only" he said.
When asked if other parties would
take part in the meeting he said:
''No. We will probably be here until
Sunday evening, unless we can get
through before"
In concluding he said: 1.-THE cause
of the strike in the anthracite mines
will be sustained until the end. IT
have anything more to say it will
be given out later in the day.
Secretary-Treasurer Wilson said:
1.-THE strike has been on for 20
weeks, and will be continued until
the miners win"
1t is reported here that the meet
in will be more important than the
officials will admit, and further, that
n number Of labor leaders will be in
the conference before it is over.
Mob Active mt Shenandoah.
Shenandoah, Pa, Sept ga mob
ot several hundred people at Cen
tralia Saturday morning intercept
ed the men who have been going to
work at Mount Carmel by trolley.
The men all returned to their homes.
"A little while later Lehigh Valley
passenger train pulled into the sta
ton, ard the mob crowded into the
cars looking for nonunion men. A few
men who were waiting at the station
for the train to take them to work
Mt Packer No. colliery were chased
home.
The strikers have boarded this
train on several occasions looking for
non-union men.
Coal Train Held Up.
Shenandoah, Pa, Sept. 29.-About
midnight it was reported to Gen. Co
bin that the strikers held up coal
train that was being taken away from
Potts colliery at Locustdale and
drove off the engineering crew. Sat-
nrday the general sent Il company of
infantry to the colliery under com
mand Of Provost Marshal Farquhar,
and with the soldiers to protect it,
the train was taken away without in
reference.
strike stili Unsettled.
Lebanon, Pa, Sept. 29.-The strike
Mt the plant of the American Iron &
Steel company was not settled Satur-
day, as was expected. The men sub
united modified terms to the com
pany. These were considerably con-
sidered at meeting of this company
in Reading until late at night, after
which General Manager Lord re-
turned to Lebanon. He met COM
mittee of the men and told them
their proposition had been neither
rejected nor accepted. The modified
demands of the men were as fol-
lows:
"That the negroes be withdrawn;
the puddlers be paid $3.50 ton; an
increase of three per cent be given
TO the men i'll the finishing depart
ment; no discrimination be made
against any former employees"
1t is understood President Stern
berger will not consent to send away
the negro iron workers.
Miners Arrested ON Serious Charges.
New York, Sept. 29.-Three alleged
murdercrs were arrested on an incom-
ing Iackawanna railroad train in Jer-
key City Saturday. They are said to
be miners and have been concerned in
a murder that. was committed in the
coal regions in Pennsylvania since the
beginning of the strike Their names |
are Henry Strinault. Henry Schubach
and Thomas Preston.
Chief of Police Murphy arrested the
men on receipt of message from the
sheriff at Scranton, Pa, asking him to
arrest the three men, who, the sheriff
said, had boarded the train at Moscow.