The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-30
GREAT STRIKE
BEGINS MONDAY
Conference Of Miners and Operators
Adjourned Without Reaching
an Agreement.
ORDERS HAVE BEEN ISSUED
STATEMENT GIVEN OUT BY
JOHN MITCHELL.

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= joint conference of the coal opera =
= tors ana miners at Indianapolis y
adjourned sine die without agree y
= ment- =
The bitumineus miners affected y
= directly and indirectly by the dis =
TuptiOn of the conferences number !
> 3S4,500. distributed as follows: =
= Pennsylvania, 100000; Maryland. =
y 5000; West Virginia, g, GOO; Vir- y
= ginia, $4,000; Ohio, 10000: Indiana. =
= $1,000: Illinois. $4,000: Iowa, 1900 =
Michigan, $500. Kentucky, 1000 \
and the southwestern states, 40 +
= 600. !
= OF these 10000 are unorganfzed. !
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indianapolis. Man ch 29.-The anthra-
cite miners scale committee tonight
issued orders for a total suspension of
mining in the three anthracite districts
beginning Monday morning, April ,
The committee notified President Raer
mat the miners scale committee will
meet the operators scale committee i'm
New York Tuesday at 10 a. IN. AT the
close of a meeting of the committee to-
night President Mitchell OF the United
Mine Workers issued the following
statement.
The committee appointed by the
Shamokin convention, Dec. Il, met to-
night and had under consideration the
letter signed by Mr.. Baer. dated March
20. and wired him the following:
If agreeable TO you a meeting of
the joint subcommittee will be held i'm
New York at 10 o'clock Tuesday. April
8. for the purpose of further consider
ing the wage scale in the anthracite
field
The committee having the matter
in charge instructed the anthracite
miners, except the men necessary to
run the pumps, and preserve the prop
critics, to suspend work on Monday
morning, April ., pending further in
structiOns from the committee ap-
pointed by the ShamCkfn convention.
Il he entire miners committee will
meet in New York at s o'clock Tues
day night TO hear the report of the
JOINT subcommittee. Signed.
JOHN MITCHELL. Chairman"
Some Resolutions.
The coal operators of Illinois. Indi-
ana. Ohio and those of western Penn
syivania who have opposed IN the Joint
conference of the central connective
district the payment of any Increase |
in wages to the miners, met tonight
at the CiayDoc1 hotel and at a late
hour made public the following reso-
buttons, which We're adopted in execu-
tive session:
Whereas. the coal operators and
representatives of the miners of the
states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
western Pennsylvania have met in IN
dtanapolis at the suggestion of the
president Of the United States for the
purpose of endeavOling TO agree on /
scale Of wages and mining condi-
lions for period beginning April I. I
1906, and the parties having been I'M
able to reach an agreement and hay-
Ing adjourned sine die, be it
Unable to Pay Advance.
Resolved. That we. coal operators
of Illinois, Indiana and Western Penn /
sYlVanla1 representing at least so Der 4
cent OF the tonnage of the territory
involved who have felt and still feel /
unable to pay any advance in wages /
at this time, do hereby propose that /
the president of the United States ap-
point a commission to investigate all /
matters which, in the Judgment of /
the commission. have an >mDortant
bearing upon or relation to the scale
of wages which should be paid all
classes of labor in and about the coal
mines OF the territory herein involved
and other conditions now imposed and
insisted upon by the United Mine
Workers OF America, such commits
sion 10 report TO the president of the
United States its findings of facts. TO-
gether with its recommendation. Re
II further
Resolved. T at such commission
nave power to administer Oaths and
compel attendance of Witnesses
j. II. Winder of Ohio was chairman
OF the meeting and G. L Scriggs of