The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-03
MAY STRIKE AGAIN
TROUBLE IMMINENT IN ANTHRA-
CITE COAL FIELDS.
MINE WORKERS STIRRED UP
BECAUSE THEIR PRESIDENTS ARE
NOT RECOGNIZED.

Board of Cancellation Does Not Ac-
cept the Credentials of the Dis
trict Presidents-Executiv Boards
Met and Endorsed the Selection of
the Presidents-It Is Declared the
Mine Workers Will Insist Upon
Their Presidents Recognition.
Will Strike Otherwise.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, June 2-Another
dark strike cloud doomed up on the
horizon of the anthracite coal region
to-day.
The executive boards of the United
Mine Workers, in session here to-day,
Endorsed the selection of their three
district presidents on the board of
Cancellation, authorized by the strike
commission, and if these members are
not recognized by the operators the
executive board will contemplate call
ing convention of mine workers to
declare a general suspension of work
until their members are given recog-
milton.
The district presidents, as a result of
to-day's meeting. issued the following
Statement of the Presidents.
"At joint meeting of the executive
boards of the anthracite region here
to-day the members selected to rep
resent the mine workers of each dis
trict on the Cancellation board report
ed that the representatives of the OPP
orators refused to recognize them or
the mine workers credentials, or ac-
cept them as members of the concilia-
ton board
"They reported that the operators OBJ
jected on the ground that the mine
workers representatives were APP
pointed by their organization as it
exists in each district. The district
boards are still of the opinion that
they appointed their representatives as
provided for by the section of the
award and voted unanimously to re-
affirm their former action.
Two questions were under consider
alton by the meeting to-day-one is to
make application to the national pres
ident of the mine workers to issue an
order for general suspension of work
throughout the whole anthracite region,
to continue until the operators agree
to adjust existing grievances and live
up to the award of the Anthracite Coal
Strike Commission: the second is that
a delegate convention be called to con-
slider the advisability of taking the
above action"
To Decide as to n Strike.
Another meeting will be held to-mor-
row to decide as to whether suspen-
sion of work will be ordered.
District Presidents Nichols, Dettry
and Fahy intimate tonight that the
Executive Board of the mine workers
will stand by their decision and will
insist that their members on the Con-
Citation Board be recognized.
A district officer, when asked to-
night if the objections of the opera
tors could not be removed if the mine
workers selected their representatives
on the board by a majority vote of
miners, replied that it was not like
ly such a step would be taken. If the
operators demanded that, he said, the
miners had as much right to ask that
the company representatives be Sc
lected by a vote of the stockholders.
Say They VIII Quit.
"Wil the miners quit work if they
are called out?" was asked.
Yes, every man will come out. The
10000 men in the Schuylkill region,
whom we ordered back to work, will
not hesitate to come out again, and
there are acute grievances in every
region which will cause suspension
If such a step is decided upon.
1.-THE district officers have coun-
selled the miners to remain at work
pending the settlement of the trouble
by the Cancellation Board, but if this
board cannot be organized, there is
nothing else for them to do but to
quit"
The indications are that If no word
from the opera tors is forthcoming, the
anthracite region will experience an
other struggle which win attract the
attention of the world. 1t will be a
bitter fight to the end. Some of the
members feel however, that the OPP
orators will recede and recognize the
credentials of the miners presidents.