Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-04
Illinois Mine Workers Will In
sist I hat Hosting Engineers
Return to Work
MINES LIKELY TO RESUME SOON
General Impression That tho Miners
Will Put Men to Work at the En-
sines Unless the Engineers Decide to
Come to Terms and Settle Their Diff
ferences.
ferences.

Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. 1.-THE strike
of mining engineers in the Illinois coal
fields has proved to be another trades
union flasco and the organization will
pass out Of existence as result of The.
conference of executive board members
Of the United Mineworkers held here
Thursday. The miners decided to
stand by their agreements with the
operators and to return to work, plac-
ing their own engineers in the places
of the strikers, unless the strikers will
abandon their independent organiza-
ton and affiliate with the miners.
After determining upon this course
the miners executive board asked for
conference with the officials of the
Illinois Coal Operators Association
and the Hoisting Engineers Union,
and this conference will be held here
today at 2 o'clock. Invitations sent to
the respective organizations were ac-
cepted by telegraph by Mack Taylor
of Danvile, president of the engineers
and o. L. Garrison, of Peoria, presi-
dent of the Coal Operators Associa-
ton.
Az IIl5 COlllCI SliSC ~ 10 VNpSSSS>s sAA~s
the officials of the engineers union will
be prevailed upon to give up their
strike contentious and also to abandon
their organization that it's members
may be absorbed by the United Mime
workers, as they are in other states
If the engineers refuse to do this all
the mines will be opened with full
working crews Monday morning and
engineers will be furnished by the min
ers This will mean the annihilation
of the Engineers Union.
| Early in the day w. D. Ryan, sec
rotary of the Illinois district OF the
United Mineworkers, received tele-
gram from Mack Taylor Of the engi-
neers asking him what would be the
attitude Of the miners. Expressing the
sentiment of the majority of the min.
ers thruout the state, who are 1ncens-
ed over the refusal of the engineers to
arbitrate, Secretary Ryan Immediately
replied to President Taylor.
He said in the telegram that the
miners would return to work and that
they would furnish engineers to run
the mining machinery unless the strik-
| ers returned to work and lived up to
the order of the American Federation
of Labor and Joined the mineworkers.
This telegram was a forecast OF the
action taken by the executive board
Yesterday afternoon. At the confer
ence today it is expected that the en-
gineers will yield every point and tnat
| the operators will cooperate with the
| miners in arranging a supplemental
agreement to the mineworkers' agree
ment which will provide for the eng,-
neers. The wages will be fAei accord
| ing to the original offer Of the operat-
ors to the engineers union.
| Though the action WAS predicted
several days ago, the strike was broken
| effectually during the lay IN several
parts of the state, the miners taxing
the initiative in furnishing engineers
In places Of the engineers. Eleven
| mines in the Spring Valley. Gilchrist
wanlock. Minonk, Rutland and South
Wilmington districts resumed opera
tions In the morning, 5000 men re-
turning to work.
The engineers were deserters from
the strike, mineworkers' engineers ana
other licensed engineers secured from
various surrounding cities. The Don
nally & Koenig mine at Cartervilie also
| resumed operations with full crew
and nreparations were made for the
| Chicago and Carbonate mine at De-
soto to resume operations this morn
| ing