The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-16
VOTE OF COAL MINERS
 IS AGAINST A STRIKE
LITTLE DOUBT AS TO THE BALL.
 LOT YESTERDAY.
Reports Received from Fifty Points in the evarious Mining states show Heavy ssntimentin Favor of Accepting the operasors' Reduced scale-President Mitchell confident of Result.


 Mitchell Confident of Result.
 Indianapolis, March 15.-One hundred and ninety thousand coal miners of In diana, Illinois. Ohio, western and cen- tral Pennsylvania. Michigan. Iowa, eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and Maryland dropped their picks at noon to-day to cast their ballots on the prop osition to accept or refuse the offer of the mine owners for a two-years' scale at a reduction of five and half per cent. from the present scale of wages.
 The ballots will be forwarded to the national headquarters here and will be counted Thursday.
 Reports have been received here from about fifty points. In practically all of them, including towns in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia. western Pennsylvania and Illinois, the sentiment as voted is heavily in favor of accepting the scale as offered.
 President Mitchell and Secretary Will son remained at the national headquar- ters of the United Mine Workers of America tonight. Both were confident that the miners had voted in favor of the scale.
 Bay City, Mich, March 15.-AA report that is being generally accepted here. coming from a reliable source, is to the effect that to-day's vote of the miners of the Saginaw valley on the proposi- tion submitted by the operators at the Indianapolis convention was two to one in favor of acceptance. The vote will not be given out until after it is count ed at national headquarters. Pittsburg, March 15.-To-day the members of the United Mine Workers I of America voted on the question of ac- cepting the reduction offered by the operators or for calling a general strike. ] It is estimated that about 21,000 of the l ?, ,000 miners in No. district, which ir- cludes Pittsburg and vicinity, voted in favor of accepting the reduction. 1 Danville, H., March 15 Returns l from the miners voting to-day on the strike proposition are coming in slowly. There are thirty-three locals in the sub-district, and all cannot be heard from tonight.
 1 Local mine leaders think it will be an even break in this sub-district on 1 the strike question.
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 Altoona, Pa, March 15.-The miners lef the Central Pennsylvania bitumin- ous field to-day voted on the referen- dunn submitted by theSIndianapolis con- ivention and cast their ballots almost unanimously for peace. District Presi- dent Patrick Gilday said tonight that while the vote was secret he was. req sonably certain thatg8O per cent. of the men cast their ballots against the strike and stood by National President ] Mitchell.
 Carbondale, I'll, March 15-Reports received from practically the entire mining field of southern Illinois, ex- Icept the counties of Hamilton and Johnson, indicate that the rank and file of the men are against strike. A summary of the vote will show that on the question of the acceptance of the new scale 80 per cent. of the men voted to accept the operators ultimatum The miners leaders and operators are greatly elated tonight over the out come.