The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-28
STRIKE WILL END
WHEN MINERS WIN
Secretary Wilson and Mitchell
Hold Conference at Pittsburg
NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE
Both Men Express Confidence In the
Success of Their Gauss, But Say
Conference Has No spe- =
clal Significance.

pittsburg, Pa, September a.-President
John Mitchell and secretary-Treasurer
w. B. Wilson of the United Mine Work.
ers of America arrived In this city short
ly before o'clock today and went az
once into conference at the Hotel Henry.
President Mitchell stated just previous
to the opening of the conference that
nothing OF Importance would be trans
acted at the meeting.
I'VE are here to go over routine BUSH
ness only" he said. He denied that
other parties would take part IN the
meeting, and stated that the conferees
probably would be here until tomorrow
evening. In concluding he said:
THE cause of the strike In the anthra-
cite mines win be sustained until the
end. II have anything more to say il
win be given out later in the day."
Secretary-Treasurer Wilson said
The strike has been on for twenty
weeks and will be continued until the
miners win"
1t is reported here that the meeting
will be more important than the officials
will admit and further that a number
of labor leaders will be In the conference
No Special Significance.
Tonight after the conference both Mr..
Mitchell and Mr.. Wilson reiterated the
statement that there was no special Sig
niicance attached to their meeting. As
Mr.. Mitchell remarked, 1.-TWO of the
executive heads of the order have been
separated for months and 1t became
necessary that we meet to attend to many
details that have been forcibly neglected"
Both officials will leave the city In the
morning. Both men declared that they
were keeping out of all politics In con-
nection with the strike and had no COM
plant to make against any one except
the operators with whom they are con-
tending.
Mr.. Mitchell declared his complete con-
fdence that the anthracite miners will
win their strike. and this IN no great
time. He says that he regards 1t as I'M
necessary to maintain the state troops at
the strike centers. adding that he must
not be understood as criticizing Governor
Stone. He declared that the executives
of the miners organization do not pro-
pose starting a contest over the ship
ment of bituminous coal from the Pitts
burg or other fields into the markets
now barren or where the anthracite
stocks are depleted or have disappeared.
Non-Unon Men Stoned.
wilkesbarre, Pa, September H-When
the employees of the Exeter mine of the
Lehigh Valley Coal company at Stur-
merville started to go home tonight they
were halted by a crowd of strikers on
the opposite side of the works. who drove
| them back into the barricade with vol
! ley of stones. Two companies from the
Ninth regiment of this city were dis
patched to the scene on special train.
Upon the arrival of the troops the crowd
dispersed.
Coal Operators Confer.
Philadelphia, September H.-Fhe Press
tomorrow will publish the following:
Wtlkesbarre, September ia confer
ence of coal operators and their lawyers
and the civil authorities In this region
was held today in the office of the Lee
high Valley Coal company In this city.
Among those present We're c. c. Rose,
general superintendent Delaware and
Hudson; L. D. Thcrne, general superin
tendent Temple Coal ana Iron company;
| s. u. Warmer, general manager I4ehigh
Valley Coal company; w. ]. Richards,
general superintendent Lehigh and
| Wllkesbarre coal company; Morris VIII
liams general manager Susquehanna
Coal company; Capt. William A. May,
general superintendent Erie company; r..
| A. Whillips, superintendent OF the coal
department Delaware, LacEawanna and
Western company A. c. Leisnering, SUI
perintendent Coke Bros. & Co.; Sheriff
Albert Fl. Jacobs, Deputy Sheriff j. A.
Jacobs and A. c. Campbell, attorney for
the sheriff; A. H. McClntock, attorney
for the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western company; George R. Bedford,
attorney for the Delaware and Hudson
company; ]. Butler Woodward. attorney
for the Lehigh Valley company; A. l.
Williams. attorney for the Susquehanna
Coal company.
After the meeting II was learned that
there was under discussion the projected
starting of several more collieries and
the arrangements which could be made
FOR having tho workers and the prop
erty protected. 1t Is understood that
Sheriff Jacobs assured the operators that
the troops would be used to preserve
peace and prevent lawlessness.
Arrangements were discussed for
guarding the Hazelton region where 1t is
the intention of the Coke company to
open the drift on eolliery, and the Pitts
ton district where the Erie is to resume
work at some of its collieries."