The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-04-20
MAY ASSESS
For a Strike Fund Miners
Whose Operators Have
Signed the 1903 Wage
{ Scale-Meeting at In
dianapolis.
dianapolis.

indianapolis, Ind. April 16.-Joh
Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers, 'and Secretary-Treas-
urer w. B. Wilson have arrived home
from New York and Pennsylvania,
where they have been in charge OF
the anthracite and bituminous bat
ties since the Indianapolis conyen-
ton. Both were at the headquar-
ters today and both seemed decid.
edly satisfied with the outlook, Vice
President T. L. Lewis, who has been
working in Ohio and West Virginia
and in a part of the Pittsburg dis
trict. will arrive in The city tonigmt.
The district board members q the
different states will be in the city
tomorrow for the special interna
tional executive board meeting.
One of the matters of greatest pub.
lie interest to come before the board
will be the proposition TO levy a
strike assessment on the miners
whose operators have signed the 1903
scale and put them to work. Az this
time about 100000 men are idle and
on strike. up to this time none OF
them has drawn en- the national trSas
ury for support, and have heard
of none drawing on the district or
sub-district funds" said Secretary
Treasurer Wilson. "They are main.
tanning themselves on their own re-
serve"
"There is nothing to say" said
President Mitchell Dispatches have
stated the progress of our nagOtia
tions with the anthracite operators
We are resting now, waiting for the
operators to make reply to our fna!
proposition regarding arbitration.
The letter from them should be here
Wednesday or Thursday. The miners
will then decide whether they wish
to meet the operators scale or sub
scale committee again and if they
do Mr.. Baer and myself will call a
meeting"
MIR. Wilson brings encouraging
news from Pennsylvania to the union |
the six thousand miners formely en- |
ployed in the non-union mines of the !
Berwind-White company, in that dis
trict, perhaps 80 per cent are insist |
ing on organizing and on the recog |
milton of the union. The company |
has posted it's 1903 scale of wages, |
but the men have not returned to |
work. In the JohnstOwn district the
spirit of organization is rampant
among the men and many are out
on strike for recognition. The same
state of affairs exists in the famous
nOn-union Irwin district, 1t is ex-
pected that Vice President T. l..
Lewis will bring stories of similar
in West Virginia, the other
great unorganized field.
Reports from all the districts are
that the union men have been very
quiet and that there has been little
violence. President Mitchell has Is
sued fresh warning to men in the
districts to commit no acts
of violence. The scenes of greatest
unrest are in those districts where
the men have newly organized and
are demanding recognition.
According to reports received here
from Ohio, Illinois and Indiana some
mines are filling with water because
pump men and engineers have failed
to return to work. 1t is said that this
matter will he one of the most i'm
portant ones to come up in the board
meeting The operators will demand
to know if it is by President Mitch
ellis authority that the pump men
and engineers are out of the mines.